PRONUNCIATION GAMES

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Pronunciation Games is a teacher's resource book containing photocopiable pronunciation games for use in the classroom. Each unit contains an enjoyable activity designed to raise learners' awareness of an aspect of English pronunciation. The activities are suitable for use with a wide range of levels and focus on pronunciation points ranging from individual sounds and word stress to sentence stress and intonation. The Teacher's Pages provide clear instructions for conducting each game, background information and suggestions for adapting the games to the needs of particular groups of learners.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• How to use this book
• Key to phonetic symbols
• Glossary of phonological terms
• Games: key types and associated vocabulary
• Section A Syllables and Stress
• A1 Making tracks
• A2 Stress moves
• A3 Syllable soup
• A4 Cluster busters
• A5 Stress snap
• A6 Stress dice
• A7 Stepping stones
• A8 Chinese chequers
• A9 Happy families
• A10 Stress maze
• Section B Sound Awareness
• B1 Hidden names
• B2 Find the Rule
• B3 Pronunciation journey
• B4 Four-sided dominoes
• B5 Sound pictures
• B6 Win a word
• B7 Two-vowel jigsaws
• B8 Ludo
• B9 Simple sound mazes
• B10 Complex sound mazes
• B11 Battleships
• B12 Join the dots
• B13 Sound dice
• B14 Phonetic crosswords
• B15 Bingo
• B16 Phonetic code
• Section C Connected Speech
• C1 Link maze
• C2 Dictation computer
• C3 A language called da-da
• C4 Rhythm dominoes
• C5 Fishing
• C6 Compound clues
• C7 Contradict me
• C8 Don't tell me
• C9 Intonation monopoly
• C10 Intonation directions