Running Dictation. ESL 2000 - Minimal Pairs - Vowels. The Flyswatter Game. 15 top fun pronunciation games. 1.
Shadow reading Students try to speak at exactly the same speed and rhythm as the CD, then try one more time with the sound turned down in the middle of the recording to see if they are still in time when the sound is turned back up. 2. Syllables snap Students take turns turning […] 1. Shadow reading Students try to speak at exactly the same speed and rhythm as the CD, then try one more time with the sound turned down in the middle of the recording to see if they are still in time when the sound is turned back up.
A BIT OF BITTER BUTTER. This is to correct that undifferentiated "uni-vowel" that so many students use.
It's a variation on the old telephone game which I found very successful. First I put on the board the words "bitter, butter, batter, better, Betty, bit of, bought a". You can give definitions for bitter and batter if you like. I drilled the pronunciation of these words, told the students to remember them without writing them down, and erased them.