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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Using two songs to help your students to get the right pronunciation of the word "because" and have some fun while doing it. the first song might be used as an warm up to the following song and ac ...
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An exercise for pronunciation - recognizing /æ/ sound in words (the worksheet is based on American pronunciation). Students have to find their way out of the maze, finding words with /&aeli ...
These flashcards can be used for learning sounds of English. It is better to cut out them by one piece. The tasks can be the following: listen and repeat, name the sound, find pairs of voiced and ...
With a little bit of preparation, this activity will turn into a great lesson-long project that your young learners will simply love!
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This is an 18-page collection of tongue twisters and tongue twisters poems in the English and Polish language (only selected and most common ones in Polish). They are in alphabetical order so it's ...
There are some patterns (groups of letters) that students can remember and these will help their reading. Here are some: the group 'oo' = pronounced /u the group 'ee' =pronounced /i/ the group ...
There are some patterns (groups of letters) that students can remember and these will help their reading. Here's one: the group 'oo' = pronounced /u/ . Explain to students this rule and give the ...
There are some patterns (groups of letters) that students can remember and these will help their reading. Here's one: the group 'ight' = pronounced /ait/ . Only the first and the last letter of t ...
It is a very funny activity which I used to finish the course. It is a poem with homophones and students need to find a correct variant understanding the meaning. It is better to complete this act ...
Patty-Cake is a nursery Rhyme lesson plan with several activities and the detailed teacher's notes.
Example instructions:
Hearing the rhythm: After reciting the rhyme, have students clap it so t ...
It's a general review of pronunciation for elementary students. Tasks include : which of the given words include the given sounds? Which words are represented by the phonetic transcription? Classi ...
Great and easy phonetic game! the cards are divided into three levels. you can play with one set of cards or you can mix all of them. and they will have different levels. i have not tried it yet b ...
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