Pronunciation Lesson Plans for English Learners at All Levels

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Pronunciation lesson focusing on improving pronunciation through the use of minimal pairs

Children's ESL game to help associate and reinforce written and spoken words that have been introduced during lessons.

Children's ESL game to help associate and reinforce written and spoken words that have been introduced during lessons.

Children's ESL game to help associate and reinforce written and spoken words that rhyme and have been introduced during lessons.

Tongue twisters with recordings for pronunciation practice for English students in ESL and EFL classes.

Pre-intermediate to upper intermediate level lesson focusing on improving pronunciation by awareness raising and practice of stress-timing in spoken English.

Awareness raising followed by practical application exercises including: function or content word recognition exercise, sentence stress analysis for spoken practice.

Comparison of unnaturally and naturally spoken English by looking at the tendency of some students to pronounce every word correctly. Listening and Oral repetition exercise developing student ears' sensitivity to the rhythmic quality of English.

Pre-intermediate to upper intermediate level lesson focusing on improving pronunciation by awareness raising and practice of stress-timing in spoken English.

Advanced level lesson focusing on developing skills of IPA transcription which can lead to a better understanding of how English pronunciation changes in connected speech.

Knowing the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) can be a great way of improving pronunciation skills. Help your class learn by using these IPA symbol cards.

Practicing minimal pairs can help students localize the often minute differences in pronunciation between one word and another. Try this lesson to help raise students' awareness to these "minimal" differences.

This minimal pairs lesson focuses on four lists of some the more difficult changes in vowel sounds. This exercise is followed up by some listening comprehension and pair work.

ESL word pronunciation help focusing on hard and soft c and g sounds.

Students can quickly improve their English pronunciation skills by focusing on stress and intonation. This lesson helps students recognize which words to focus on to improve their pronunciation skills.