Speaking Activities for the Classroom
Read and Pronounce These Words and Lines
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- Chapter Eleven : How to Improve Your Diction
- Some “I” Sounds
- Some “O” Sounds
- Hard and Soft “C” Sounds
- Some “ic” and “ch” Endings
- Some Dreadful “D” Sounds
- Try Saying These Sounds
- Frightful “F” Sounds
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Read and Pronounce These Words and Lines Reaches/outmost These subway lines reach the outmost regions. Especially/areas Especially in the outskirts and suburbs Politicians/reforms Politicians are not especially interested in reforms. Appointed/approved Appointed and approved by the Assistant Deputy Minister of Commerce. Fiction/literature I prefer children’s fiction to adult literature. Interfere/affairs Don’t interfere in their love affairs. Autocracy/disturbing Their Government’s autocracy is very disturbing. Discouraging hurdle Passing these tests is a discouraging hurdle. Difficult obstacle Their entrance exam is a difficult obstacle Obsolete/defense The army now has obsolete defense systems Dedicated/efforts Psychiatrists’ dedicated efforts to solve problems. Details/things Give me all the details and things Teenagers/maturity Teenagers that have sex before gaining maturity Background research Some background research on this difficult subject Furthermore/resignation Furthermore, I am submitting my resignation Exact wrong figure Determining the exact wrong figures Inexact calculations The contract contains inexact calculations. Years before It was two years before the great flood. Other countries Mr. Brown has visited other countries. Executive secretary She will be an excellent executive secretary. Experiences/situations Weird experiences in different situations Enjoy/challenging She enjoys her challenging job. Automatically cancelled Your residence visa will be automatically cancelled. Mistakes/restrictions These mistakes caused serious export restrictions. Annual/ and you are And you are required to do an annual tax review. Never ready The tax reports are never ever ready in time. 355
Chapter Eleven : How to Improve Your Diction You have probably never noticed, but the word “dictionary” contains the root word “diction” which means how to speak and pronounce words correctly, which is what we shall concentrate upon in this next section. To be more specific, we are going to practice how to say words, phrases and sentences and read short selections from the text, following the lead of a native speaker ( as far as possible). The way to improve your diction is, first, to let the teacher read the word(s) aloud and then to repeat exactly the self same sounds that the teacher has made. You need not necessarily try every one of the sheets in this chapter, because that may prove to be too much and too boring. The point of these sheets is to pinpoint and to practice certain sounds that many non-native speakers will have problems pronouncing properly.
Teachers may find these sheets handy because, when they find that a certain student has a certain problem making a certain sound, that teacher can go to the text and make a copy of the particular page that illustrates said particular sound and use it for personal practice with that individual student concerned.
Even teachers who are non-native speakers may benefit from using these examples because often, if not always, the book provides lists of words that all repeat the same sound over and over, and this means that when you know how to say some of the words, the others will follow the same sound pattern. For example, “Bruce, goose, loose, moose, noose, juice, spruce.” Anyone who has always pronounced “juice” wrongly should be able to get it right in the future. Similarly, from looking at “boot, coot, fruit, hoot, loot, root, scoot, suit, toot” will realize that.the words “fruit and suit” are pronounced like “boot and root.” Similarly, it may prove to be a revelation to some that “busy” is pronounced the same as “dizzy, fizzy, Lizzie, tizzy.”
Another advantage of the sheets that follow is that you will often see words in the lists that you know how to pronounce but you do not yet know the meanings of. This is a chance to do some self-access learning. If you are really interested in learning, you can look said words up in the dictionary and then make sentences using those words. Another way to use the sheets is, first, to practice the sound aloud with the whole class, and then put the participants in groups and let them discuss and look up the words they don’t know together. 356
Some “A” Sounds An “a” sound can come at the beginning, or mi.ddle, or the end of the word. initial internal final final Able Afraid Africa Area Accord Ashamed Botswana Bacteria Addition Awake Bacteria Cafeteria Afraid Bake Canada Drama Again Brat Cuba Extravaganza Agent Cake Dracula Fiesta Ahead Crawl Extra Gala Ailment Drake Fibula Hannah Ajar Fake Granada India Alone Fate Hydrophobia Java Already Famous Indiana Korea Amend Flame Joanna Lava Angel Great Labia Magma Approve Infamous Linda Niagara
Acquit Mistake Mama Opera Arrange Opaque Norma Pasta Arrest Quarrel Panda Quay Archer Remake Papa Raw Ashamed Snack Qualms Susanna Asunder Snake Rwanda Trivia Average Sale Saw Uganda
Await Snake Veranda Via
Awestruck Steak Wanda
Waialua Axel Take Xenophobia X-ray Aye Wake Yale Yugoslavia Azure Wave Zaire Zambia 357
Some “E” Sounds
final Early Been Be Barbie Ebenezer Between Baby Berry
Echo Crease Community Clumsy
Edward Disease Curry Dee Effective Easy Destiny Factory Effigy Federal Easy Frenzy Egghead Fred Freebee Gory Eject Heap Greasy Hairy
Elect Indeed Grimy Hurry Electric Jet Injury Icy Element Leaning Jimmy Jury Embrace Led Kenny Lee Emergency Lender Lonely Me
Energy Let Maybe Mealy Engineering Meandering Oily Only
Entrance Meaning Ollie Pea
Erect Net Polly Plea Essence nettles Ready Really Essential Peel Saucy
Story Eternity Peer See Sorry
Evening Queen Sea Tea
Event Redman Spicy Testy Exact Steady Tree Variety Excitement Teddy Totality Wily
Exit Tender Westerly Wary Expensive Wend Zesty Zany
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Open “EE” Sounds The open “ee” seems to be much used in English, as in “crazy, easy, or foxy or freezing.” initial internal final Final “ly” Ear Deal Brandy Bailey Ease Feed Candy Carelessly East Feelings Chastity Curly
Easy Field Devotee Daily
Eavesdrop Freed Dolly
Early Eel Freeze Factory Fairly
Egress Greet Fee Greatly
Egypt Kneel Flea Hardly Elated Meal Flee Highly Elected Need Folly Indignantly Election Peelings Forcefully Juristically Elective Really Free Lovely Elope Reeling Ghastly Namely e-mail Steal Ghee Openly Emotion Steele Ghostly Queenly Enervate Street Glee
Rarely Equality Surreal Grandee Really Equator Tea Handy Roughly Equestrian Treat Hastily
Scarcely Erase Tree Jamboree Singly Erected Tweet Lee Slowly Erection Veal Property Slowly Eternity Wheel Referee Surly Evacuate Wheeling Trolley Tenderly Evening Yield University Truly
Eventually Zeal Varsity
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Some “I” Sounds initial middle middle final Iambic Alive Bright Ally Ibex Bit Blight By
Icon Bride Bite Buy Ideology Clive Fight Cry
Idiot tDive Flight Die Ineffective Fin Fright Eye
Ignore Five Hide Fly Ignorant Gin Lid Guy
Inhibition Irvine Middle
High Injurious Jive Kid Lie
Illegible Kin Kite
My Illegal Line Limber Nigh Immanent Mind Rim
Pie Imbecile Nine Sin Ply
Impeccable Pile Skin
Rye Important Pine Smith Sigh
Instrument Quinine Smitten
Sky Into Hint Tight Spy Ionization Sit Tin
Spry Irregular Smile Time Sty
Island Spine Tim Try Italian Society Timber Tie Internal Vine Trim Vie Invitation Win Swinger Why Ivory Wit Tingle Wry Izzy Zit Zinger Zefferelli
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Some “O” Sounds initial middle middle final Oates Aloof Alone arrow Obliterate Balloon Bone bow
Occult Bloom Cone blow Odd Boom Drone Crow
Off Cartoon Flown
Doe Official Coon Grown Faroe Ogle Doom Groan
Fargo Ogre Doubloon Hope Floe Oil Dragoon Hone Gigolo
OK Exhume Joke Glow Old Fume Joan Grow Omniscient Goon Loan
Hoe Only Gloom Moan Joe Onto Home Noon Low Oops Hone Roanoke No
Opera Loom Room Mow Open Movie Soak Moe Order Maroon Slowpoke Mow Organ Octoroon Smoke Oh Ossified Plume Spoke Piano Out Platoon Soon Radio Oven Tune Stone Rodeo Owen Slow Storm Sparrow Oxygen Spoon Tomb Sorrow Oxen Womb Toot Studio Ozone Zoom Vroom Video
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Some “U” Sounds The letter “u. is often used in prefixes. initial internal internal final Unable Buddy Allude Adieu Umbrella Bus Attitude Blue Ulcer Blood Bubonic Brew
Understand Cud Bureau
Clue Unexpected Club Burrow Crew
Unfaithful Crude Cuticle
Cue Ungrateful Cuddle Clueless Due Unharmed Duck Cutlass Dew
Underinvestment Fun Duplex
Drew Unjust Gun Duress Few UK Huddle Endurance Fume Ulcer Luck Flurry Flu Umbrage Muck Funeral Flew Uncle New Fuse Glue unopened Pluck Hurry Grew
Unpopular Prune Jury
Hue Uproar Puck Lure Knew Unquestionable Run Muir
Mew Urinal Ruin Pure New Usual Rude Ruin Pew Utmost Rule Scubadive Queue
Utter Sue Superman Rue
Universal Stew Suppress Spew Unwed Stuck Superb View Uxorious Suck Tuber You
Unzipped Yuck Viewfinder Zoo 362
Some “B” Sounds Just practice the sounds of the words. initial middle final final Bacon Babble Blab Arab Baby Bobby Beelzebub Boob Back Bubble Blob Bob Buddy Blubber Caleb cub Bead Cobbler Crab Curb Beef Double Club Dab Beg Enable Crib Daub Bah Fable Disturb Drub
Big Gobble Drab
Dub Bagger Hobble Flab Fib Back Hubble Flub Fob Black Jobber Grab Gob Blame Knobby Grub Hob Boon Libby Hobnob Jab Bloom Lobby Hubbub Jib Beep Marble Jacob Job Bequest Nobody Knob Lob Bread Pebble Perturb Mob
Best Robber Scab Pub Better Scrabble Scarab Rib Butter Scrubber Scrub Rob Bovine Squabble Slab
Rub Bow Slobber Slob Sob BX Sober Snob Stub
Buy Warble Stab Sub Biz Wobble Snub
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Read These Explosive Word-Sounds Vertically Bachelor Castle Dealers Fanatic Backer Chicken-pox Dearest Fangs Baker Chili-pepper Decisions Fearful Banker Cholesterol Delegations Fervid
Barber Clavichord Delicious Fever Beacon Clavicle Delirious Fist-fight Beckon Clawed Delirium Fistful Beast/breast Cleaner Deliveries Flagrant Beggar Collar Delusions Flaming
Blacker Color Denigrate Flattery Blaster Conquer Designation Flight Blotter Conquest Detention Fluctuations Boaster Coward Direction Fluorescent Bobbin Crackers Directory Flux
Boiled Crawl Disappearance Flyer
Bored Crest Disappointing Follower Bothered Criminal Disintegration Fowler
Brother Crisis Dislodge Frantic Bracken Criticism Disposal Frazer Braver Crowded Disposition French breakfast Crowned Dispute Frenzy Breeder Crows Dodgy Fright Broader Cruelest Dracula Frigid Broadcast Cruelty Drastic Frisky Brooder Crumbs Dreadful Frogs-legs Broken Crusaders Drear Frostbitten Broker Cyanide Dredger Frosty Butcher Czarina Drinker Frozen 364
Hard and Soft “C” Sounds Say the “c” “ic” “s’’ sounds, clucking, clicking or hissing in the appropriate places. initial middle final final Camel Ace Acidic Bossy Catatonic Access Allergic Casey Cab Bacteria Botanic Fancy Cod Broadcast Bombastic Fleecy Cud Dracula Caustic Flossy Cedric Face Doric Gracie Cesspool Facelift Drastic Grassy Cigarette Farcical Electric Glossy Citadel Graceland Forensic Icy City Gracious Fantastic Iffy Church Historical Horrific Juicy Chicken Judicial Hypodermic Lacy Click Juices Ironic Messy Clique Laces Juristic Nancy Climate License Lyric Prissy Climb Licentious Lunatic Queasy Clock Ludicrous Music Racy Club Palaces Operatic Rosy Class Places Photographic Sexy
Courage Racial Platonic Stacey Crater Radical Plastic Spacey Crazy Salacious Rhetoric Spicy Cuba Spacious Seismic Tracy Cuddle Traces Stoic Vice Czar Vicious Tragic Waxy There are a lot more “c” sounds than you can see here. 365
Some “ic” and “ch” Endings Say these words out loud and be sure to sound the endings. “ic” ending “ic” ending “ch” endings “ch” ending Allergic Antagonistic Belch Beach Atmospheric Antic Bench Birch
Catastrophic Arctic Blanch Bitch
Classic Artistic Church Bunch Claustrophobic Attic Clinch
Coach
Doric Balearic Clench Crunch
Dyslectic Ballistic Latch Crutch Electronic Baltic Leech Drench Epidemic Bombastic Lurch Dutch
Euphoric Celtic Patch Etch
Exotic Critic Peach Fetch Graphic Drastic Perch Filch
Historic Erotic Porch Finch Horrific Erratic Punch Hatch Hypnotic Esoteric Quench Hunch Hysteric Exotic Scratch Inch
Jurassic Frantic Screech Lunch Lymphatic Gastric Search
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Moronic Gigantic Squelch Munch Panic Mantic Stench Ouch! Photographic Mystic Stitch Rich
Platonic Pedantic Stretch Touch Quick Plastic Such Which Symphonic Romantic Vouch Witch
Voltaic Spastic Witch Zilch 366
Some Dreadful “D” Sounds initial Internal final final Damned Addition Aged Named Dangerous Additive Attracted Alarmed Dazed Bedside Bed Bonked Deadly Bundle Bled Conked Dejection Cuddle Bread Decided Deliberate Dreaded Dead Ended Delicatessen Ending Dreaded Fated
Delicious Frederick Elected Fired Delightful Goddamned Fed Fried
Delirious Handle Fred Grated
Demon Indeed Instead Hated Denigrating Indication Jed Jailed Desperation Leader Lead Knocked
Destiny Liquidity Ned Lamed
Destitution Modern Needed
Maimed Destruction Noodle Paired Opened
Devastating Oddity Red
Posted
Dexedrine Puddle Rested
Quartered Dictator Quid pro quo Said
Started Disgusting Rider Shed Uninvited Downgrade Rudder Sled
Used Dracula Saddle Sped Vouched Drake Toddle Thread Watched Drastic Understood Tread Wedded Drink Waddle Tread Yanked Duck Yodel Wed Zonked
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Try Saying These Sounds g j k l Galapagos Jacket Kangaroo Lacquer Gardening Jagged Karate Lane
Garters Jailbird Kate Larder Gas Jailbird Kayo Large Gaucho Jam Keeper Latch Gemstones Japanese Keepsake Laugh Gently Jargon Kennedy Laxative George Jason Kerchief Layaway Ghostly Jawbone Kernel Lazy Gibe Jazz Ketchup Legitimate Girdle Jefferson Kettle Lighten Glibly Jeffrey Kicker Light Global Jettison Kidney Likely Glorious Jettison Killer Likeness Gorge Jigger Kilohertz Limit
Gorgeous Jitters Kilometer Loaded Gosh Jitters Kindness Lobby
Grateful Jobseeker King Kong
Login Gratitude Johnny Kissing Lollypop Greetings Josh Knight Lonely Gregarious Judge Knockout Lopsided Grief Jumper Know
how Lover
Gringo Junction Knuckle Lowest Grouch Junction Kodak Lumber Guaranteed Juncture Korea
Lurch Guys Juxtapose Kramer Luxury
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Frightful “F” Sounds initial internal final final Fabulous Baffle Beef Aloof
Fanatical Buffalo Bluff Barf
Fantastic Carefree Cuff Beef
Fantastic Chiffon Enough Calf Farthest Coffee Fluff Deaf Fatal Drifters Gaff Graf Favorite Duffel bag Grief
Graph Fifth Eifel tower Gruff Half Fifty Frightful Huff Hoof Fight Rafters Jeff Laugh Finest Reefers Muff Leaf Five Rightful Off Molotov Flamingo Roofers Puff Poof Flare Shuffle Quaff Proof Flat Sniffle Rebuff Ralph
Flicker Soften Rough Reef Flight Stiffen Scoff Reproof Ford Surfers Scruff Roof Formal Taffy Sniff Scarf Forty Toffee Snuff Shelf Frantic Toffee Spiff Spoof Freight traffic Staff Tough Frilly Truthful Stiff Trough Frustrated Wafers Stuff
Warf Fungal Waffles Tiff Wolf Furious Wonderful Whiff Woof |
