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  Minimal pairs: Create an interactive document (with live worksheets, for example) to work with your students. Or create an original activity to practice two minimal pair consonant sounds for your students. AUDIO FILE LINK TO MY WORKSHEET?? CLICK HERE!!

  Use any type of gamification to practice pronunciation at a suprasegmental level. Invent a narrative to present your game and engage your students Present your gamification platform Give reason why you have choosen this or that game (relate it to the learning objectives) How would you attend diversity? How would you use evaluation? AUDIO FILE DO YOU WANT TO SEE THE IMAGES WITH A BETTER QUALITIY??? CLICK HERE!!

  Listen to the song "We will rock you". Keeping the same rhythm, invent a paragraph about a topic of your interest. Sing the song and record it. Upload the result to your blog SING IT WITH ME!!! CLICK HERE Grab your friends, let's make some noise, Time to rock, bring out your toys. Stomp your feet and clap your hands, We'll rock this place, it's our command.   School's on fire, but we're not tame, Learning cool things is our aim. With rhythm and groove, we'll show our style, Rockin' the classroom, mile after mile.

  Choose a text (20 words long) Student 1 Reads the text aloud and very slowly. Student 2 has to write the phonetic representation of the text.  Careful with stress !!! Then students change roles. Finally, you can use  this web page: to phonetics,  to find out if your phonetic repesentation is more or less correct. Record the process and upload your results on your blog. Hi! I did the task alone at home, so I asked my boyfriend to tell me a sentence and I wrote the phonetic representation, you will see the process below! SENTENCE: THE SUN SHINES BRIGHT AND BIRDS SING IN THE TREES, CREATING A JOYFUL ATMOSPHERE IN THE PARK. DO YOU WANT TO SEE MY TRANSCRIPTION?? CLICK HERE!!

Arts and Crafts: Create your own pop-up card with your poem to w ork stress and accent with your students.  Take a picture and upload it on your blog. HERE'S MY POEM! The flowers bloom in vibrant hues, Their fragrance carries joyful cues. With every step, I feel the breeze, Caressing me with gentle ease. In this moment, my heart is light, A symphony of colors takes flight. Oh, what joy this day does bring, In this simple, blissful spring

  Find a poem you like, a song you love, a film scene you enjoy watching and reproduce the words, lyrics and dialogues as many times as you need to make it nearly "perfect" for you.  Record yourselves and  upload your results to your blog. HERE'S MY POEM! I am a little turtle, I crawl so slow, I carry my house, wherever I go. When I get tired I put in my head, My legs and my tail and I go to bed.

Every school is involved in a digital strategy aiming for a better digital competence for the students. How would you use new technologies with your students to practice pronunciation? Create a 5' podcast explaining the different possibilities you can think of (Computer as a tool, Websites, Apps, etc. ) DO YOU WANT TO HERE MY PODCAST?? CLICK HERE!! AUDIO FILE

We are all going to participate in the creation of a digital book Choose an IPA sounds (everyone in the class should choose 1 different sound - a vowel sound/ diphthong or triphthong  or  a  consonant sound ) For every sound, design a creative, original activity to be done with kids to practice the specific phonetic sound. In the "activities page" from this site you may get ideas for your own activities. DO YOU WANT TO SEE MY ACTIVITY? CLICK HERE!! AUDIO FILE

  Task 4 (Individual or in pairs)  Analyse any YouTube video about how Spanish people should improve pronunciation. It can be as short or as long as you want. It will help you as an example. Video record yourselves giving tips to your students on how to improve their pronunciation. Consider their age and focuss on specific things. Upload the video on your blog VIDEO HERE!

  Task 3. (Individual)  TO SHARE! Write an infographics  (Using  pick to chart  or  canva ) about how do you think pronunciation should be dealt in class (remember that there are activities or articles, in this Site, that can help you) Should pronunciation be taught  explicitly or implicitly? Why do you think so? Should  always be taught through the same activities? Why do you think so? Is it interesting for the students to focuss on pronunciation? Why do you think so? CLICK THE IMAGE TO SEE IT BIGGER! AUDIO FILE

  Task 2 (Individual or in pairs): Read and listen to this tongue twister several times:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1edPxKqiptw . It contains about 800 of the most difficult irregularities in English spelling and  pronunciation ). Record yourself shadowing (until "should and would") from the native speaker video, mind the pronunciation.  Upload the result on your blog. AUDIO FILE