Hm, for some reason I can't get the PowerPoint to open.  That stinks. ???  Is someone who downloaded it able to re-attach it?  Too bad, since it looks like it's the most popular part of the lesson based on download numbers.  Or maybe that many other people had trouble downloading it too. ^^

I've been looking for a good pronunciation lesson after my co-teachers have been requesting a lesson on this for several weeks, so I'm eager to check out the materials.

Now that's interesting.  When I attempted to get the file by using the Save option instead of the Open option, it worked without a problem.  It took about 10 times longer to download, but at least I have the file.  I'll repost just in case, but if others are having the same problem as Greg and me, you might try saving instead of opening (I'm sure this is mentioned in some thread somewhere, but I hadn't seen the idea before).

I have no idea why it's a different size, since I didn't change anything, including version format.  Hm.  But now that I've looked at it, wow!  This *does* look like a great presentation!  It seems to be sensitive to the difficulty of pronunciation without outright ridiculing the differences.  Can't wait to implement this.

Well, I added a few slides to show diagrams of mouth shape when pronouncing the sounds, because I'm sort of a linguistics nerd and I thought the visual might help.  By the time we got through the PPT show (well, or when I got through writing stuff on the board for us to practice in the room where the TV wasn't working), we didn't actually have time for the game. =\

In case anyone's interested in adding some linguistic/phonetic info to the slideshow, I'll go ahead and post the file that rencor27 originally submitted but with my alterations.  For the B/P sound, I had students hold up the small piece of paper they had filled out for the warm-up activity (also posted by rencor), and with the paper hanging down, I had them pronounce the /b/ and /p/ sounds.  Watching the paper move on /p/ helped them see the very noticeable difference between airflow if nothing else.

I also added a slide noting differences in the ways Korean and English syllables are formed.  In Korean, they make the /sh/ sound by putting an 's' next to an 'i' leading to the 'Englishee' sound when they're not thinking about careful pronunciation.  We don't have that consonant-vowel requirement for syllables, so we can make one-syllable words like strength or priest.  I was somewhat impressed that even the low-level students had no trouble making the right sounds when they actually took the time to think about pronunciation.

The lesson went over well with the two HS girls' classes I have taught it to so far!  They were middle and low speaking proficiency, so we'll see how this works out with high ability and also with my boys' classes... I may still have time to pull out that game after all. ^^



(TL;DR edition: Here's the slideshow a little bit longer with linguistic sound formation pictures as a bonus)