Speaking Activities for the Classroom
Two Words Joined by Conjunctions
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- Addictive Alliterations
- Word Sequences You should always learn language in little bits, such as in the word groupings below
- Pronounce and Explain and Use These Terms
- Using Some Accents and Stresses Inside of Words
- Read out these Words Stressing the Correct Accent
- Chapter Thirteen : More Pronunciation Practice
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Two Words Joined by Conjunctions There are a lot of little word groups in the language that work like this. Practice a few Bag and baggage Beans and bacon Bed and board Bed and board Big and bony Bed and breakfast Black and blue Cash on delivery Bread and butter Casual and carefree Cash and carry Cool and clear Coffee with cream Fat and flabby Dead as a doornail Flame and flicker Fair or foul Flat to let Fast and furious Gold and glitter Green as grass His and hers Hale and hearty Home and hearth Hot and humid Homeless and hungry Jam and jelly Judge and jury Kit and caboodle Lean and lank Life and liberty Lost and lonely Love and war Power and prestige Mean and miserly Right and wrong Money and might Room for rent Nice and naughty Rough and ready Rant and rave Short but sweet Right of rule Snow and sleet Sin and squalor Stop and stare Tried and true Tropical and torrid Wear and tear Where and when Whiskey and water Why and wherefore Wild and wooly Worn and wrinkled
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More Musical Devices Read out the words together in one rhythmical unit to create a musical effect. Basket case Annie get your gun Believe it or not Aquamarine Burning rubber Archbishop Children’s rights Blast them to smithereens Dictate your destiny Boiled in oil Free speech Cosmic actions Judicial regulations Foreign correspondent Learn to love your life Foreign entity Love and longing Glow and glimmer Might is right Have a happy holiday Official ministerial appointment Heard-hearted Hannah Post mortem autopsy Just a Gigolo Preconceived conception King and country Prenuptial agreement Lemon yellow Questionable lineage Live and learn Quiet acquiescence Long arm of the law Ready on arrival Manifest destiny Rock concert queen Pistol packing mama Rule of law Purple people eater Special citation Really rummy room Stress of materials Seamy side of life Tea for two and two for tea She gets my goat Terrorist attack Siam center Unwilling witness Stare and glare and gloat Wise-cracker Whet your whistle
Your immoral outlook White- whiskered whisky drinkers Underline or highlight the special and repetitive sounds that hold the word-grouping together. 418
Addictive Alliterations Some people really get hooked on alliterations. This extra page is dedicated to them. Ann Arbor Arch Angel Blue Bonnet Barn-Burning Boys in Blue Big Bust Commerce Commission Birch Bark Do or Die Blue Bell Electrical Energy Body-Building Fear of Flying Bongo Beat Green Grocer Burning Bush Honey Harbor Crispy Crunch Irrational Impulses Curious Case Jersey Jumper Extreme Emergency Lake Louise Financial Federation Lewd Literature Fit as a Fiddle Luggage Locker Flying Fortress Manly Moves Heavenly Hope Modern Marvels High Hopes Now or Never Local Legislators OPEC Oil Materials Management Presidential Pardon Mind over Matter Race Riot Modern Medicine Silk and Satin National Newsletter Silver Star Oval Office Terrible Tragedy Sailing Ship Terrorist Tactics Secret Surveillance Tourist Trade Spy Story Toy Boy
Train Tracks It would be a great idea for the teacher to get you to explain what each of these terms means. 419
More Word Pairs Assign each student to make up a sentence using one of the following word pairs : Automobile Accessories Bullied-Beef Close Quarters Bootleg Booze Cat’s Cradle Crazy Katz Cuban Cigars Claims Check Tourist Trade Dowager Duchess Fiddle Fuddle Blue Bird Bowling Ball Garden Gate Corporate Clients Hawaiian Hula Broken Bottle Christ Church Single Soul Service Station Silk Scarf Easter Egg Diplomatic Defection Clam Chowder Boiled Broccoli Modern Music Honeymoon Hotel Nepalese Nation First Flight Raging River Moldering Monument Plum Pudding Tall Tale Shimmering Shadows Brooklyn Bridge Russian Roulette Good Grief Silk Screen Silvery Sands Tram Ticket Red Ribbon Unfathomable Universe Stormy Seas Temper Tantrum Tangy Taste Same Side Wanton Waste Yester Year Miserable Mood Tough Task Political Plot Ground Gas Simple shame Tell-Tale
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Word Sequences You should always learn language in little bits, such as in the word groupings below : American Automobile Association American Academy Awards Big Bunch of Bananas Arthur Andersen Auditors Blues Brother’s Band Bali Bomb Blast Bond and Banking Business Better Business Bureau Cancer Care Clinic Broad Band Broadcasting Cold Case Clue Child Care Center Delivery Due Date Classic Case of Corruption Ding Dong of Doom Congressional Committee on Crime God-Given Grace Financial Filing-Folder International Investment Initiative Just a Gigolo Israeli Intelligence Information Low-Learning Level Jungle Joy Juice Luxury-Living Lifestyle Ku Klux Klan Money-Making Motivation Live and Let Live Never, Never say Never Long Lost love Pacific Petroleum Platforms Mass Media Manipulation Palestinian Past-President Popular Political Platform Really Rock and Roll Really Rant and Rave Rhine River Region Ring a Ding-Ding Shareholder’s Stock-option Signatures Rising Rupee Rate Siamese Serendipity Special Ron Rico Rum Social Security System Scary Roller Coaster Tax Tariff Terms Star of Stage and Screen Tokyo Rose Shows Thai Tennis Tournament Whole, Hale and Healthy Western White Women Family Fun Fair World Wide weather Warm, Westerly Winds
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Pronounce and Explain and Use These Terms It would be good experience for you to use one term the teacher assigns to you in a sentence. Catch as catch can Big brother Champagne cocktail Bread basket Cold cream Catch a cold Crispy crackers Close call Devil’s door Congressional campaign Diamond diadem Criminal Charges Diet drink Dubious dealings Double trouble Extra effort Electric eel Go-go girls Flash flood Green glass Gaggle of geese India ink Head over heels Internal injuries Late lunch Jade jewelry Marriage arrangements Kitchen cabinet Nebulous notions Litigation lawyer On the open ocean Live and learn Overly Inquisitive Man in the moon Roam and ramble Movie mogul Slight snow showers Ordinary operations Soft as a baby’s bottom Pinto pony Some big bloopers Room rate Under pounding pressure Singapore Sling Undercover unit Sweet pea Very vexatious Undercover unit Vicious and violent Utmost best Weapons of war Whine and whimper Words of wisdom Various versions
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Cultural Allusions Practice pronunciation and be prepared to explain to your teacher what the following terms/names signify. If you must do an Internet, search, it will allow you to read in English. Achilles’ Heel Alice in Wonderland Aegean Artifacts Anthony and Cleopatra Athena Carlos Castaneda Chester Cathedral Chakrit Dynasty Corinthian Columns Charles Darwin Dionysian Cult Dali Lama Druid Rituals Fritz Lang
Heart of Darkness Face that sank a thousand ships Henry the Eighth Founding Fathers Karl Jung Gateless Gate King Solomon’s Temple Hanoi Hilton Merlin the Magician Homeric Heroes Moby Dick Horatio Hornblower Noah’s Ark King Taksin Pompey
Mary Queen of Scots Roderick Random Minoan Crete Sigmund Freud Mycenaean Culture Sixty Seconds Old Roman Ruins The Pyramids at Giza Siege of Troy The Colossus of Rhodes Sound and Sense The Lost Continent of Atlantis Stonehenge Timothy Leary Towering Tibetan Temples Tutankhamen’s Tomb Trojan Horse Ulysses’ Curse Venus Vishnu Vesuvius Zeus
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Using Some Accents and Stresses Inside of Words Every word has at least one accented syllable and usually one ore more unaccented syllables. The simple way to say this that there is at least one strong beat and one or more weak beats in every word. Below, the letters in BOLD type are stressed beats and the letters in normal are weak beats. A better way to understand this is to see a table of words which put the stress or accent on the STRONG syllables and put the weak beats in lower case fonts. We shall help you with some words but leave you on your own to figure it out. First syllable Second syllable Third syllable Fourth Syllable AL.ways Ad.JUST A.ra. BESQUE Al.lit.er.A.tion BE.cause Be.CAUSE Bes/ti.IAL.ity Bal.ler.INA COM.for.ta.ble Con.VEN.tion Con.vo.CA.tion Con.viv.ial.ity DO.nut Di.MEN.tion Dep.riv.a.tion De.ter.min.a.tion ENG.land E.vent.u.ally E.vol.u.tion E.val.u.a.tion FRE.quen.cy Far.rea.ching Fre.quen.ta.tion For.ma.liz.a.tion GAR.net Gra.da.tion Gra.vi.ta.tion Ges.tic.u.la.tion HO.mer Hos.til.it.y Ho.mo.gen.ious Hos.tel.er.ia IN.side In.ten.tion In.for.ma.tion Il.lum.in.a.tion JUS.tice Ju.dic.ious Jur.is.pru.dence Ju.di.ci.ary KE.ttle Ka.lei.do.scope Kan.ga.roo Ki.lo.wat.hour LI.tter Lo.qua.tious Leg.ion.aire Lit.i.ga.tion MIS.ter Ma.tic.u.ous Moun.tain.eer Ma.tric.u.la.tion NOR.mal Nu.mer.ic.al Nu.mer.a.tion Nor.mal.iz.a.tion ON.ly O.pres.sion On.to. log.ic.al Or.gan.iz.a.tion PA.ss.ive Pre.ven.tion Psy.cho.lo.gi.cal Par.cel.iz.a.tion RU.pt.ure Re.ten.tion Reg.u.la.tion Reg.u.la.tory SI.lent Se.mes.ter Sed.im.ent Sed.im.en.ta.tion TER.ri.ble Tre.men.dous Ter.min.a.tion So.lil.o.quy UN.der.stand Un.ready Un.der.ta.king Un.ion.i.zation YES.ter.day Ya.mo.to Var.i.a.tion Val.i.dic.tor.ian
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Accented Syllables Read the columns, descending vertically, and pronounce the strongly accented syllables in the right place. This time, there will be no markings to guide you, but you can figure it out yourself, if you work you way down the lists, column by column. 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Allergy Advancement Ammunition Accentuation Basket Biology Biological Bureaucratize Comfort Container Criminology Communication Database Detective Deposition Determination Express Election Elevation Elaboration Factual Fantastic Fermentation Fraternization Ghostly Gestation Gravitational Gesticulation Hateful Horrendous Homosexual Heterosexual Image Important Inquisition Immunization Jungle Judicial Jurisdiction Jehoshaphat Kerosene Kentucky Kleptomania Kentuckian Laptop Lament Lamentation Legalization Merger Memorial Monumental Memorization Notary Numerical Numerology Questionability Operate Ordeal Ordination Ozonosphere Princess Pollution Pioneer Polarization Question Quotation Questionnaire Quantification Reserved Respectable Registration Regimentation Sensuous Sensation Sociology Sterilization Tumbler Traditional Territorial Tantalization Unity Unless Understatement Underestimate Vowel Volition Ventilation Versification Waxworks Well-being Westernize Westernization
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If You Don’t Get the Beat Right, You’ll Get the Rhythm Wrong One of the most difficult problems in speaking English as a foreign language is to get the rhythm right. If you put the accents in the wrong place and you have a Thai accent, even if your grammar is almost perfect, native speakers will have trouble understanding you. Actor Nameless Gargantuan Advancement Anvil Notion Gregarious Articulation Busy Optical Hospitable Bartholomew Business Orphan Hostility Communicate Careful Parcel Imagine Depraved Congress Practical Inopportune Explosive Destitute Racial Laboratory Fertility Driver Radical Laborious Gemology Energy Sameness Momentous Hospitable Ever Sender Mentality Intestinal Factory Tease Notorious Judgmental Frequency Tower Nutritional Kaminski Gustatory Underwood Occult Lament
Gravel Uncle Occupation Malicious Harmless Arrange Position Namibia Hopeless Advance Psychology Oppressor Inform Befitting Rangoon Pretentious Injury Between Relations Quarrelsome Keeper Compartment Salacious Rapacious Kibbutz Comportment Society Superb Lament Depression Tenacity Terrific Lender Delirium Temerity Umbrella Mentor Emergency Vexation Vanessa Muzzle Eventual Unrest Warwick
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Read out these Words Stressing the Correct Accent Don’t worry about getting it wrong, the teacher will help you if you do. Anthropology Anticipation Bestiality Brutalization Calculation Civilization Declination Defoliation Eventual Deforestation Fulmination Determination Globalize Evaluation Humanize Fertilization Infestation Globalization Kleptomania Humanization Legalization Investigation Misadventure Microbiology Methodology Memorization Nomenclature Normalization Normalize Purification Omnipresence Questionability Publication Realization Referendum Rectangularity Requisition Sterilization Salutation Triangulation Transformation Tranquilization Utilization Undervaluation Vulnerability Vaporization Womanize Verbalization Underestimate Vulgarization 427
One Last Chance In this exercise, we will use words that have a lot of syllables. The problem for you is that they do not always fall on the same syllable. Sometimes it can fall on the first syllable, sometimes on the final syllable, and sometimes in between. actualization brutalization capitalization devaluation evaluation fertilization globalization hallucination improvisation jurisdiction kleptomania liquefaction miscalculation naturalization optimization predestination popularization quantification regularization sterilization tantalization utilization verbalization vexatious
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Chapter Thirteen : More Pronunciation Practice
In this chapter which is a development of a systematic and preconceived plan, the teacher should do four things : • The first is to practice pronunciation, as in the above exercises. • The second is for the teacher to explain and discuss new vocabulary. • The third is for the teacher to give sample sentences to illustrate how to use the words and idioms, etc. • The last, and the most difficult, is for the students think in English and make up their own sentences using the words in the lists. Said tasks allow students to listen, repeat and learn new vocabulary, and to create complete sentences in English, whilst practicing speaking. The teacher can also stop, at any given point in the lists, and tell a story or an anecdote or start a discussion and answer session regarding the new vocabulary terms. If the teacher is relaxed and creative, he/she can take a lot of freedom in utilizing the teaching materials. It goes without saying that the students should be allowed the same freedom and should even be encouraged to lead the direction of the discussion to make it more interesting for them selves. They should be asking questions about the things they want to know rather than answer questions that the teacher expects them to answer. It goes without saying that letting the students take the lead is the less threatening of the two above alternatives, and doing it in this way will also be more comfortable for the teacher, who should find that making up examples and explanations as he/she goes is also creative and challenging. It is possible that some teachers may have to look up a few expressions and write down some examples in preparation for class, but there is nothing wrong with that. The best way to learn something is by teaching yourself. Two final things that should be stressed are that there is a vast selection of sheets from which to choose, and no teacher should try to go through the whole sequence in order. Instead, pick and choose the items that are most appropriate for the level and interest of the class. Under no circumstances should the students be given advanced, vocabulary exercises that are too difficult for them, because this would only confuse and frustrate the students and make the job of the teacher more difficult. The last thing a teacher wants to do is create a problem for him/herself.
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A In these exercises, just keep repeating after your teacher. If you get enough practice, you will begin to lose your Thai accent and sound more like a native speaker. The best compliment you can get is the statement, “You must have studied abroad because your accent is so good.” Able and ready Able and ready Accept and agree Acceleration pedal Acidic reaction Acceptable explanation Act of god Accruing interest on their loans After the armistice Accurate accounts Aftermath of the war Action Plan Aimed at attaining approval Activist activity Air of pretension Against my better judgment Airport tax Against my principles Always interested Against my religion Angel-faced Against the current Anger and frustration Against the law Anonymous tip Air head Anti-war demonstrators Air hostess Any answer will do Always agreeable Appallingly low wages Always right Arabic numerals Answer the phone Ardent advocate Arbitrary opinion Arrival area Ardent advocate of… Arsonist’s motive Arduous ordeal At the taxpayer’s expense As we speak Avenge an offence Assembly line Average income Attend to business Aware of the danger Augment your income Awfully sorry A whale of a time
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