Day 5: pronunciation

Last day of the first week. Recall vocabulary before, like every day. Today pronunciation. Practice the sounds of English. The teacher distributes letters with the  phonemes and we pronounce them in different words. We do groups of families according to the affinity of sounds. The book, Ship or sheep?  by Ann Baker helps us in this task of identifying the minimal pairs. Also what happens in this video lets you see how important it is for a speaker to distinguish these sounds good ...

 Another activity is to look for  words in a picture, select them in the lyrics of a song or group verses.  In class, we work with this song by Noah and the Whale.

Again, the teacher wants us to move the class and gives us a paper with a verse of the song. When sounds this single verse, we have to get in line to complete the song.

Before the end of class, one of the companions showed us this video with the accents and their problems ...

In the afternoon we have an interesting excursion to Ely to see its impressive cathedral and enjoy a tea at Peacocks Tearoom.

                                                                       Ely Cathedral