EFL Ideas
The Snake Game.
| This game is very simple, involves the entire class, and is useful for reinforcing pronunciation error correction. For the Thai student, reproducing the final 's' is a recurring problem and at times, nearly impossible, as it doesn't exist in the Thai language. After talking about the 's' sound, I choose a sentence, a short paragraph or a tongue twister with emphasis on the final 's'. The entire class must listen to one student reading aloud. If the student reading aloud fails to pronounce the final 's' sound in a word correctly, the entire class makes the 's' sound loud and long and clear like a snake hissing. I called this one, "the snake game" in Thai classrooms. This activity can be modified to emphasize any sound be it initial, medial or final. A final 'm' could be called "the cow game" where the students moo like cows, etc. This activity worked for me, brought home the importance of the sound to be pronounced and seemed to clear up the problem for students. |