1. Songs can be an effective way to teach pronunciation of vowel sounds to young language learners. 2. The song "Apples and Bananas" plays with different vowel sounds and can help students practice pronunciation. 3. Additional activities like using colored fruit pieces and singing verses that match can reinforce vocabulary and pronunciation.

2. Most children enjoy singing songs, and they can often be a changea change
from the routinefrom the routine of learning a foreign language.
Songs can help young learners improve their listening skills andlistening skills and
pronunciation.pronunciation.
The phonicsphonics is a method for teaching reading and writing the English
language by developing learners' phonemic awarenessphonemic awareness (the ability
to hear, identify, and manipulate phonemes) in order to teach the
correspondence between these sounds and the spelling patterns
(graphemes) that represent them.
How can we teach the differences between the pronunciation of
each vowel sound?
An effective way is with a song that has repetitions of easy words.

3. • Fruits
• Whiteboard & Marker
• Guitar *
Songs can be taught to any number
of students and even those
teachers with the most limited
resources can use them effectively.

4. • FruitsFruits
– Apple
– Banana
– Orange
– Pear
– Peach
– Pineapple
– Kiwi
– Etc.
• VerbVerb
– Eat
• Long VowelsLong Vowels
– A
– E
– I
– O
– U

5. • Improve the listening & speaking skillslistening & speaking skills of children.
• The learning of vocabularylearning of vocabulary that are familiar to them.
• The repetition offers greater exposure to these words
and can help to improve vocabulary acquisitionimprove vocabulary acquisition.
• Level: Kindergarden (4 – 5 – 6 years)
• Time Needed: 10 minutes app.

6. • Ask the students wich are their favourite fruits and write
them in the whiteboard.
• Peel and cut the fruit, and share it with the kids. They
can eat them, and we have to emphazise the use of the
verb “eat” as in
“ I like eateat this apple,
Do you like eateat banana?”

7. • "Apples and Bananas" or "Oopples and Boo-noo-
noos" is a traditional North American children's song
that plays with the vowels of words. The first verse
usually begins unaltered:
• I like to eat, eat, eat apples and bananas.
• I like to eat, eat, eat apples and bananas.
• The following verses replace most or all vowels with one
given vowel sound, usually each of the long vowels
sounds of a (/e /), e (/i:/), i (/a /), o (/o /), and u (/u:/)ɪ ɪ ʊ

9. • You can use other fruits instead of apples or
bananas, for example:
“I like to eat eat eat
Oranges and Kiwis”

10. • Color and cut out the pieces. Glue the sides of the bowl pieces
together, leaving the top open.

11. • Place the fruit pieces in the bowl.
• Pick a fruit piece and sing the verse that matches the letter on the
fruit.

12. • We can use the same rhythm to teach
other verbs and other vocabulary as
“I like to play play play
Play my violin/ guitar/ flute”

13. • We can create a fun activity as a play at the end
of classes before holidays.

14. • Using song effectively:
http
://www.camtesol.org/Download/LEiA_Vol2_Iss1_2011/LEiA_V2_I1_11_Neil_Millington_Using
• Teaching Reading:
http://www.reading.org/Libraries/Inspire/Teaching_Reading.pdf
• Using song to teach english:
https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/blogs/evab2001/using-songs-teach-english
• The song:
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/440789882250048381/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4AOHOdJ1Bk
• The lyrics
http://www.songsforteaching.com/songsthatteach/applesbananas.htm
• The sheet with musical notes and chordsto play it
http://www.partitionsdechansons.com/en/pdf/11574/Folk-song-Apples-and-
bananas.html
• Follow up activity
http://www.homemade-preschool.com/music-worksheets-songs.html