I got this idea from another teacher and used few of her ideas and adapted it with some ideas of my own.

Basically the idea is to give students a chance to hear different English accents and dialects  than the usual 'North American broadcast approach'. Since yeah, its not the only way English is spoken.

The lesson outline works like this:

Introduce the topic and explain to students that we will be talking about English accents from around the world.

Explain what an accent is and demonstrate how languages can be sound different even though the same words are being spoken through two videos.

Video #1: 'Mary had a little lamb' segment from American tounge youtube clip.

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Video #2: '21 accents' you tube clip

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After that I discuss with the students if Korea has any different kinds of accents? While in Jeollanamdo kids may clue in on this faster from their strong accent, it took a minute or two of hints to get the Gyeonggido kids thinking about Jeonam, Jeju, Busan, or other places.

Then to get them thinking more about how different English accents sound I ask the students to list all the countries that use English as a first language and ask them if they all sound the same. The answer is hopefully no.

After that I start going into the different accents of each country. While I could get more complicated it seemed that American, the UK, Canada, and Australia would be enough. I only stuck with England, and probably a standard British accent approach, since the UK could be a lesson in itself.

I started off with America, and talked about how there are generally 4 regional accents (mid-west, southern, northeastern, and west coast), and also asked students if they could name any places with particularily strong accents. Say New York or Texas.

I then show the students a few videos of American talking in different accents and some expressions from these places. Keep in mind I'm a Canadian so these were best guesses. I picked the south, Cajuan accent, New York, Boston, and southern California valley girl.

When teacher I borrowed the lesson from did the lesson she used other clips from the American tongues documentary the 'Mary had a little lamb' segement is from. You could also use clips from movies or TV shows if you can think of a good example.

For England I used the youtube clip of David Brent's akward dance from 'The Office' and they seemed to dig that.

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As you can see with the powerpoint, the same approach of video with a few key expressions and phrases are used to show how the accents sound.

I generally tried to leave about 20 minutes at the end of class for students to complete the worksheet and review the answers at the end.

So far, the response has been pretty good. It could definitely be done in different ways depending on what country you are from and what good video clips you can think of.

I also was thinking of having students making dialogues using some of the key expressiosn as well.

p.s. apologies for the weird embedding, I tried to fix it, but couldn't, should still work fine though.

That's a great link, thanks!

Thanks for this.  My classes all really seemed to enjoy it.  I've attached a worksheet I made for the "th" sound.

Do the warm up first, then go over it together. Then follow along with the paper. Lot's of listen and repeat. Go over each section together after they do it. Have them speak as much as possible. For each section ask them what words they don't know and then tell them what they mean. They seems to learn a bit from it. This is something my students struggle with. They always want to make the s sound instead of the th when they speak (mouse instead of mouth). When they do the partner thing they should have a different paper than their partner. There of course will always be a few students who do not take it seriously and just copy. Try to discourage that with whatever works for your kids. With my girls I just tell them it's a secret to keep and they must hold their paper up so their partner can't see. They like this and enjoy torturing their partner by not letting them see even though the word my be difficult to understand. Then if there's time you can do Bingo.
I got this lesson from this website: http://international.ouc.bc.ca/pronunciation/
It has lots of lessons like this. I only changed it a bit. You don't even need the power point if you don't have technology in your classroom.

Sounds good... :)

This is a powerpoint to review some of the basics of pronunciation.
Make a double sided handout for the students using slide 1 "The Sounds of English" and Slide 5.

Sounds of English
Show phonemic chart on the screen.

Can anyone tell me what this is?  What do these symbols mean?
“Sounds of English”.

These are the individual sounds that make up the English language.

In Korean do you need an extra chart for the “Sounds of Korean”?
No, because hanggeul already represents the individual sounds of the Korean language.

Where can you see these symbols? 
dictionary – shows you how to pronounce words in English

Let’s go over some of the consonant sounds together.
[students seem to have most difficulty with “f”, “v”, “z”, “l”, “r”]

Here is a copy of the chart for you to use. Keep it in your folder.

Syllables
Words are made up of parts or “beats”, can anyone tell me what we call these parts – syllables.

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syllable – a word or part of a word which contains a single vowel sound





How many syllables do these words have?  One easy way to count is to clap your hands for each syllable or “beat” as you say the word outloud.


student                             ape                 ridiculous
school              bored         vacation
superstitious           family          cake

Word Stress
Word stress – the syllable in a word that has a stronger (or louder) sound than the other syllables.  The syllables that are not stressed are weak (or quiet).

Look at these three words.  Do they sound the same?  A different syllable is “stressed” in each word

How many syllables?   Which syllable is stressed?

pho  to  graph         

pho  to  graph  y

pho  to  graph  ic

There are two very important rules about word stress:

1.   One word, one stress. (One word cannot have two main stresses.
      So if you hear two stresses, you have heard two words, not one   
      word.)

2.  The stress is always on a vowel.

Why is Word Stress Important?
Word stress is not used in all languages. Some languages, Japanese or French for example, pronounce each syllable with eq-ual em-pha-sis.  In English, word stress is a very important part of the language.

show example

Let’s practice identifying word stress.  Turn over the “Sounds of English” chart.  At the bottom of the page, there are lists of words.  Look at each word and put it under the column with the correct word stress pattern.

Go over answers

Note:  Sorry, I forgot to attach the powerpoint file when I first posted this!

are there any books you referred to for korean pronunciation problems?

great idea. i did a similar lesson.
in my lesson, i visually showed my students how to pronounce the difficult sounds. how to make P/F sounds, R/L sounds,  G/J/Z sounds

This is the first lesson plan I used this semester. I teach 1st and 2nd graders at a girls' high school that has never had a native speaker teacher before. The students' reading levels are high, but most of them speak and listen at a low level. I couldn't use any technology at first, so this is paper, pencil and board only. It's also set in the PPP lesson plan format and is practically scripted since I wasn't sure how much information my co-teacher wanted about what I was going to do.

If you can use your computer and a projector, you can also use these videos by Have Fun Teaching for lots of pronunciation practice. I taught all of the problem sounds, then used these as a review. They're ridiculously simple and cheesy, but my students loved them. I stopped them at "write an upper case L in the air!" since my students know how to write in English.
Letter L Song: http://www.schooltube.com/video/28a6d41ec5312c3321e0/Letter-L-Song
Letter R Song: http://www.schooltube.com/video/4d4d0b5441caf44953a0/Letter-R-Song

Looks great.  I'll try this with my after school class.  I've seen some "Konglish" lesson plans on this site that are quite offensive.  It's a fine line between pointing out mistakes and insulting people.