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Pronunciation - sometimes known as “pro-nuhn-see-EY-shuhn” - is one of the simplest ESL topics to explain, at least in theory; and also one of the hardest for students to get exactly right. As you know, there’s a big gap between grammatical fluency and native-sounding speech - and even long before that, in ESL levels one and two, it’s crucial to make sure students pronounce their vocabulary words in ways that’ll be easily understandable to native speakers. But sometimes, they just can’t seem to hear the difference between their pronunciation and yours - which can be a tough barrier to break through.

Depending on the level of your class, you might take any of a number of different approaches when teaching pronunciation. You might pause the lesson when a student’s pronunciation is wrong, and repeat the word with him or her until it sounds better. You might ask your students to work through lists of commonly mispronounced words, saying each one carefully. If you’ve got a large class, you might pair your students up, and have them repeat certain tricky words back-and-forth to each other. Or you might do all these things, and more.

Whatever your approach, BusyTeacher.org has 230 pronunciation worksheets to back you up. No matter what level your students are, what theme you want to use in your lesson, or what kinds of pronunciation exercises you want to organize, we’ve got worksheets to fit the bill. When you step into your classroom with BusyTeacher.org pronunciation worksheets, you’ll know you’re ready to get an engaging, challenging exercise started - even if you’ve had to prepare in a hurry at the last minute. (Hey, it happens, right?)

The 230 pronunciation worksheets here on BusyTeacher.org draw inspiration from every topic imaginable - from basic vocabulary and grammar to popular songs and movies. It doesn’t matter if you’re looking for a simple on-paper exercise, a light-hearted activity, or a high-energy game - somewhere in our collection you’ll find exactly what you’re looking for.

In fact, we guarantee that your students will like any worksheet you choose. Why? Because every worksheet here on BusyTeacher.org was created and tested in the classrooms of real ESL teachers just like you. All our worksheets are available thanks to the contributions of our worldwide community of teachers - and it’s a community that we’d love you to join, too. If you’ve got a worksheet that’s worked well in your classroom, just click the “Submit a worksheet” button at the bottom of this page to share it with ESL teachers around the globe.

Not sure which worksheet to choose? No problem! Just choose from one of our top ten most popular pronunciation worksheets - or browse through the collection in thumbnail view, so you can see a snapshot of each worksheet before you download it. Once you’ve found some worksheets you like, just grab ‘em, print’ em, and put ‘em to use. They’re all completely free to modify and share as you see fit.

It’s all waiting - so take a look, and print out any worksheets that catch your eye. They’ll be winners in your classroom - we guarantee it!

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Reading Rules 'Ee'

Reading Rules 'Ee'

It is a set of exercises practicing reading rules of the letter "Ee". At first the brief explanation of reading rules of the letter "Ee" is given. Then six exercises are provided. The students are ...
12 Views 14,030 BegElemPre-Int
Shape Your Sounds 4

Shape Your Sounds 4

Through this sheet ss practise the vowels in first. It is a great way of making children aware of sounds and it is also good for them to keep a track of the different sounds in their notebooks. It ...
5 Views 12,374 BegElem
Song Worksheet: Dancing Queen

Song Worksheet: Dancing Queen

Good for elementary students. Listen and choose the correct option and listen and complete the blanks with the right word. You can also work with pronunciation. You could also have your students w ...
6 Views 21,853 Elem
Phonic Sounds

Phonic Sounds

This is a tutorial  worksheet related to the english sound /p/, /b/, /t/, /d/. The tutorial will help the students to understand  each phonic sound with examples. The pictures used in th ...
8 Views 25,945 BegElemPre-Int
Phonetic Challenge

Phonetic Challenge

Useful when you are teaching phonetics/sounds of English - helps students to see how the phonemes work. Takes only a few minutes but is a great pair or small group activity. Can be modified if you ...
12 Views 22,843 Elem
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Homophones

Homophones

Homophones are the words that sound the same, yet have different meanings and therefore are easily confused. To understand these types of words, here is a workshee ...
10 Views 21,715 All
Phonetics for Kids (1)

Phonetics for Kids (1)

, Pronunciation
This is a worksheet that works with the sound /u:/. The idea is to work previously in class with examples and set this worksheet as further practise and for students to have register of every work ...
11 Views 32,697 BegElem
Countries and Nationalities PPT

Countries and Nationalities PPT

This ppt has a short conversation that could be read by students using several intonations. You can ask ss to read the conversation laughing, crying, scared etc. Then, it includes "guessings" abou ...
16 Views 29,809 ElemPre-Int
Wonder or Wander

Wonder or Wander

Two of the many confusing words. With this work sheet you can teach your students how to use these two words. And they are not pronounced the same. There is an exercise the students can do and and ...
7 Views 10,987 BegElemPre-IntInt
Homophones Memory Game

Homophones Memory Game

Well, this is a very simple worksheet: first, print it and cut the squares. In class, have students work in pairs or groups. Each pair/group gets one stack of cards and they should shuffle the car ...
16 Views 32,865 Pre-IntIntAdv
Phonology - the Alphabet and Cardinal Numbers

Phonology - the Alphabet and Cardinal Numbers

The table shows  phonology of the alphabet  and cardinal numbers.I hope you find it useful. Present your students with the correct pronunciation of ABCs and cardinal numbers.  ...
18 Views 27,631 BegElem
Song Worksheet: ESL Reductions in Music Listening Game

Song Worksheet: ESL Reductions in Music Listening Game

Many students love English music and jump at the chance to hear it in class. Music is an awesome way to learn reductions like "wanna, gonna, hafta, etc.), but many songs only use a few of them, wh ...
13 Views 21,841 IntAdv
Tongue Twisters 3

Tongue Twisters 3

These are funny tongue twister activity for English classes. You can use it to help your English classes relax. There are a lot of differnt sounds. From my observation I can say that it's hard to ...
26 Views 37,265 Elem
Rhymes

Rhymes

Divide your students in small groups. Each team is given a word and they have to say the maximum of words which rhyme. The winner is the team with more points at the end of the game. You can adapt ...
8 Views 15,922 Pre-IntIntAdv
Homographs

Homographs

This is another worksheet on words easily confused. Homographs are pairs of words with the same spelling, but their pronunciations and meanings differ. Have your students choose the correct words ...
14 Views 21,500 Pre-IntInt
Song worksheet: Let Her Go by Passenger Fill in the Blank and Transcription

Song worksheet: Let Her Go by Passenger Fill in the Blank and Transcription

Pronunciation
This worksheet is meant to practice listening through focus on rhyming words and phonemic sounds.First, I divide the class in pairs and give students one card with the phonetic transcription of th ...
14 Views 30,934 ElemPre-IntInt
Song Worksheet: Army of Two by Olly Murs

Song Worksheet: Army of Two by Olly Murs

There is first an introduction exercise using phonetic symbols, if you like teaching them! It is based on rhyming words from the song, and finally a gap-filling exercise using those words. It's ...
3 Views 8,219 ElemPre-Int
Popular Tongue Twister

Popular Tongue Twister

While many pupils struggle to read practising tongue twisters can help them to learn to speak confidently and overcome nervousness whenever they open their mouth. Try out this tongue twister today ...
25 Views 34,388 IntAdvExam
The Three Little Kittens, PowerPoint

The Three Little Kittens, PowerPoint

, Pronunciation
The classic Three Little Kittens nursery rhyme was a big success with my class of adult ESL learners. Using the Internet, I was able to create this PowerPoint, complete with the artwork that made ...
21 Views 32,356 ElemPre-Int
Homophones Worksheet

Homophones Worksheet

This is a worksheet for teaching or revising homophones. Recommended for elementary students whoa re asked to complete the sentences by chosen the correct word. The answer key is included.
12 Views 35,314 ElemPre-Int
Word Stress in the Sentence

Word Stress in the Sentence

This presentation can help you while teaching stressed syllables of the word and stressed words within the sentence. I have also mentioned the heteronyms (heterophones). I hope it will be useful f ...
27 Views 30,503 Adv
Intermediate/Advanced Oral Presentation Rubric

Intermediate/Advanced Oral Presentation Rubric

Here is a rubric that is designed to help teachers assess prepared oral presentations by students at the Intermediate/Advanced levels. The rubric contains the following categories to be assessed: ...
18 Views 99,307 IntAdv
Fox in Socks - Tongue Twisters

Fox in Socks - Tongue Twisters

Students will listen to the story Fox in Socks by Doctor Seuss. They will then practice tongue twisters and match them to the picture . At the end they will create their own silly tongue twister ( ...
36 Views 46,116 BegElem
Homophones Worksheet

Homophones Worksheet

Pronunciation,
This is a worksheet for the students to pronounce a word and find another one that has the same pronunciation. The Ss are provided with clue spaces for them to guess the word. They need to have a ...
10 Views 25,686 Pre-Int
Valentine' Day Homophones

Valentine' Day Homophones

This w/sheet is to use with the topic of homophones (words that sound the same but with different meanings) It is tied in with Valentine's day and the idea of sending poems. The SS read the w/shee ...
14 Views 20,355 BegElem

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