Stry of higher and secondary specialized education of the republic of uzbekistan state university of world languages

-What are the outcomes of these activities?
After all this, it is undeniable that the creation of these activities which could be an amazing tool in order to develop further abilities of the students so that they will improve pronunciation, and in the same way, the oral expression by practicing pronounce vowels and consonants.
Examples of activity procedure for practicing vowels and consonants
Activity 1: Try to Pronounce!
Level: Beginning, intermediate, and advanced level English language learners
Age: Elementary to Adult ESL classes
Purpose: Practice pronouncing vowels and consonants
Skill area: Oral intelligibility/ segmental/ vowels & consonants
Type: Group/ Individual Activity
This activity helps students pronounce vowels and consonants from the aspect of place of articulation, manner of articulation, and voicing, and vowels from the aspect of frontness/ backness of tongue, tenseness/ laxness, and lip rounding. Handouts for this activity are attached.
Activity procedures:
1. Before the class, the teacher should video tape how each vowel and consonant sound is pronounced. Additionally, the teacher should provide explanations on the video while pronouncing those sounds. The teacher can burn the tapes onto CDs.
2. In the class, each student gets a CD.
3. The teacher will introduce how to pronounce each vowel and consonant as indicated above. She can also use the handouts as overheads.
4. The students can watch the video tape after class to practice their own pronunciation.


Activity 2: Sound It Out
Level: Beginning/ intermediate
Age: Any
Purpose: Practicing letter and sound correspondence
Skill area: Oral intelligibility/ segmental/ vowels & consonants
Type: Group Activity
Pre-requisite: Students should have the knowledge of letters and be able to decode basic vocabulary.
This activity helps students to recognize that some letters have different sounds and the same sound might be represented by different letters.