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Pronunciation Bingo

Elementary

British and American English

Bingo.teacher's notes (PDF: 19 KB)

This activity helps to develop students' familiarity with phonemic symbols. It can be adapted to provide practice with sounds the class have particular difficulties with.

• Choose about 15 phonemic symbols and write them on the board,
• Elicit from the students an example of a word that contains each phoneme
  (and write the words up too for reference if it helps).
• Ask students to draw a grid with nine spaces. In each box, they must write a different one of the phonemic symbols. Make sure students also leave enough space to write a word in each box. See the teacher's notes for an example.
• Choose some words, perhaps vocabulary you'd like to revise, making sure that all the 15 phonemic symbols are included at least once,
• Tell students they're going to play bingo. When they hear one of the phonemes in their grid, they must write the word in the box. Each word can only be used once, with one phoneme.
• Read out the words slowly. The winner is the first student to complete 3 lines, across, down or diagonally.
• To check, write the winner's phonemes on the board and then ask them to
  read out their words.

Related title

Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, Seventh Edition

Source

Oxford Teacher's Club - http://www.oup.com/elt/teachersclub/adults/