The aspects of connected speech: Assimilation.

Detailed process of the lesson

Warm up

Materials: Warm up handout

Objective: Introduce the focus of the lesson

Procedure: Teacher asks students to repeat the following tongue twister

Warm up handout

Pre activity

Objective: Introduce the focus of the lesson

Procedure: Read the nursery rhymes observing the use of assimilation in them.

Handout

Activity A

My pretty doll

Is very small

I love my pretty

Little doll.
Good morning, good morning

Good morning to you.

Good morning, good morning,

I am glad to see you.

While activity

Objective: Derivation of the rules

Procedure: To revise the types and degrees of assimilation

REGRESSIVE

AB

news [nju:z]

PROGRESSIVE

A B

place [pleIs]

DOUBLE

A B

twenty

[twentI]

Handout 1 Make the following exercises

Activity A

1. Transcribe and pronounce the words train, quarter, twilight and swallow and

say what type of assimilation takes place in them.
2. Which consonant within the word clock is affected by assimilation? What
degree of assimilation is it?
3. Analyze the words handkerchief and gooseberry from the point of view of
assimilations in them and state: a) the degree of assimilation; b) the
direction of assimilation.
4. What allophones of English stops are used before the nasal sonorant?
5. In what clusters do the plosionless allophones of the stops occur?

Post activity

Objective: look through the tasks paying attention on pronunciation

Procedure: improvement of pronunciation while doing following exercises

Activity B

Practise reading the following words:

[θs] [ðz]

[mʌn] – [mʌns] months [pa:] - [pa:ðz] paths

[dep] - [deps] depths [tra:] - [tru:ðz] truths

[bə:] - [bə:s] births [ba:] - [ba:ðz] baths

[leŋ] - [leŋs] lengths [mau] - [mauðz] mouths

Activity Practise reading the following sentences:

a nice tie – nice ties a red pencil – red pencils

a busy day – busy days a fine night – fine nights

a large class – large classes a bad pen – bed pens

a black desk – black desks a thin neck – thin necks



Conclusion

Materials: Board, markers

Objective: The revision of the theme

Procedure: Teacher asks students to make the feedback on the lesson (oral or written) and gives home task: to know the main characteristics of assimilation

Glossary

1. 
   Accent – a special emphasis given to a syllable in a word or to a word in a sentence
   
2. 
   Syllable – a single unit of speech, consisting of either a whole word or one of the parts into which a word is separated when it is spoken or printe
   
3. 
   Transcription – complete written copy of spoken or written words
   
4. 
   Pronunciation – the way in which a word or letter is said, or said correctly, or the way in which a language is spoken
   
5. 
   Intonation – the sound changes produced by the rise and fall of the voice when speaking
   

Literature:

1. 
   M.T. Iriskulov, A.S. Shatunova, A.A. Muzykina. English Phonetics. Tashkent, 2006;
   
2. 
   M.T. Iriskulov, A.S. Shatunova. Practical English Phonetics Achievement Tests. Tashkent, 2007.