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.
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This worksheet is to identify the difference between the long /ai/ sound and the short /i/ sounds that are otften confused by learners. It can be used to find patterns (e.g. the magic 'e' which tr ...
There is often confusion in the pronunciation between numbers 13-30, 14-40, 15-50, 16-60, 17-70, 18-80, 19-90. This worksheet demonstrations how the stress of the word is very important in clari ...
Greg Granger gave Gretta green grapes. Sometimes the 'gr' sound is hard for people to pronounce. After describing how to position your mouth and tongue, and then modeling the sound, this 'gr' pr ...
A warm-up activity. Choose this easy-to-print page for your private tutorship or group work. Let the students join one-by-one and read the tongue twisters for a couple of minutes every class. It m ...
This worksheet contains four different exercises on two pages. Most of them can be done in pairs. The lesson plan, including the lead-in and follow-up activity, is on page three (it is only my sug ...
Crossing out words that do not contain the same vowel/consonant sound, crossing out silent letters, writing homophones. I used this in a pre-intermediate class. When explaining the homophones, you ...
This worksheet is meant for students at advanced levels to practice transcription into IPA and pronunciation. It consists of a series of texts from different authors, including Shakespeare, fairy ...
Some of you will prefer to let students listen once first, others may find different ways of doing it depending on the level of the students. I would suggest playing the video / song verse by ver ...
In this worksheet, students can listen to the Eagles song and complete the gaps by distinguishing words that share certain phonemes, such as vowels and consonants, and word stress in others. A fun ...
Hello, this is another activity dealing with phonetics symbols, this time it is a text about idioms. The purpose of the task is to choose the correct sound of some words in the text; it's somethin ...
This is a very funny tongue twister activity for English classes. You can use it to help your English classes relax. Moreover, with this activity, you and your students can also practise English i ...
Students like songs. If they have read or seen The Hunger Games, they will like this song. The lyrics are a bit simple but they can revise vocabulary and present simple and future tenses. It's a g ...
Homonyms can be confusing. Here is a summary of homonyms that will be useful for ESL learners to practice their pronunciation. For example, when teacher explains how to pronounce 'bear', they can ...
Over 100 tongue twisters. These are very useful for EFL learners and are an meaningful reward on a Friday afternoon. There are difficult tongue twisters and also easier versions. Particularly use ...
A worksheet on the use of English prepositions and homophones. There are three different exercises based on the lyrics of this beautiful song, rated number 4 in the Best Irish Single Ever Poll: ...
Colour illustrated cut-out cards of nouns that rhyme but are not spelled as if they will rhyme. 24 cards on two pages, 3rd page for instructions. Print out also very effective in black and white ...
This worksheet aims to help young learners pronounce the -ed endings correctly. It explains thoroughly the categories of the -ed pronunciation and has an exercise to practise. It is taught along ...
This worksheet includes a classification of the silent letters (clusters of letters) in English words between brackets with plenty of examples. It can be useful when students are handicapped by th ...
This worksheet provides the students with the most common correspondances between the pronunciation in English of certain sounds and the different possible groups of letters that are used for thei ...
This is a worksheet group I developed to help my ESL students with the ever difficult -OUGH pronunciation. There is a short silly story and a chart with the most common British and American Englis ...
This is a worksheet I developed to help my ESL students with the ever difficult OUGH pronunciation. There is a short silly story and a chart with the most common British and American English "-oug ...
This is a worksheet I developed to help my ESL students with the ever difficult OUGH pronunciation. There is a short silly story and a chart with the most common British and American English "-ou ...
This worksheet will help students choose the correct phrase that describes the given picture given two (2) choices. In part B, students are expected to identify the word being describe by the give ...
This worksheet will help the students to identify the correct phrase for each given picture. It also helps improve thinking skills. The students are asked to check the box of the phrase that descr ...
This is a good song to work with daily routines and present simple. It's good to introduce new terms such as comb your hair, put on make up and run for the bus. It is also a good song to introduce ...
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