Phonic Activities

1. Topic 3
Phonic activities

2. Sound fight
Aims:
• To enable pupils to recognise and reinforce
minimal pairs through actions
• To enable pupils to improve listening skills
Preparation:
• Minimal pair list: flog, frog, clam, cram, crows,
close, grass, glass, class, race, lace, lap, rap

3. Procedure
- Have Ps work as a whole class, standing up.
- Instruct Ps (For example: sound pairs: ‘r’ and ‘l’)
Raise your left hand when you hear a word with
the ‘r’ sound.
Raise your right hand when you hear a word with
the ‘l’ sound.”
- Demonstrate for the Ps:
+ Raise right hand: ‘flog”
+ Raise left hand: “ frog”
- T reads out the targeted minimal pairs.
- Ps listen and raise their right/left hands
accordingly.

4. Pros and cons
Pros:
- Pupils can identify the minimal pairs and
remember them quickly.
- Pupils like to listen and do something with
their hands.
Cons:
- The class might go noisy and be difficult
to control

5. Slap the sounds
Aims:
- To enable pupils to recognise long or short
sounds (eg. school or cook) in words and
sentences
- To enable pupils to improve listening skills
Preparation:
- Cards with either long or short sounds written
on them for each pupil.

6. Procedure
- Put Ps into pairs
- Give each P a card showing either long or short sounds (oo).
- Elicit more words containing (oo) from the Ps as a whole class.
- T says a word/ sentence containing the word, ss slap at the
cards at their desks.
- Other options:
+ Option 1: T says one word. Ps listen and raise the long/short
card accordingly.
+ Option 2: T asks the Ps to place both cards in front. T says a
word, Ss listen and slap the correct cards according to the
long/short sounds.

7. Pros and cons
Pros:
- Pupils can identify the sound and remember
them quickly.
- Pupils like to listen and do something with
their hands.
Cons:
- The class might go noisy and be difficult to
control.

8. Micro - teaching
• Choose one of the following sessions in Tieng
Anh 3 textbook (volume 2) and do a micro-
teaching of the session.
Page 10

9. Volume 2 - Page 16
Volume 1- Page 50