1. CARABOBO UNIVERISTY SCHOOL OF EDUCATION MODERN LANGUAGES DEPARTMENT PHONETIC AND PHONOLOGY Micro-class: / З: / vs. /e∂r/ CREATED BY: LUGO MARIANGEL PEREIRA LINO PULGAR MARGELIE SEC 12
2. DESCRIPTION AND ANALYSIS. A. Orthographic relationship / З : / Fern, Nerve Clerk, Prefer ---- Early Heard Learn, ---- Church, Thursday, urn return Occur, curly ---- Stir First, girly, thirsty ---- Word, worse work, ----
3. / e∂r / Scared, declared, ---- Care, mare, fare barefoot ---- ---- Wear, swear, bear air ---- Stair B. Problems for Venezuelan Spanish Speakers / З : / vowel is very difficult to discriminate and produce for the Spanish speaker since it does not exist any similar sound in the Spanish inventory of sounds. Venezuelan speakers tend to change this sound by the Spanish one /er/.
4. C. Orthographic exercise (Sound maze) Find your way through the maze locating words with the sound / З : / as in “girl” Created by Mariángel Lugo, Lino Pereira and Margelie Pulgar
5. II. LISTENING DISCRIMINATION A. Isolation: Identification task Listen carefully to your teacher. What sound do you hear? Put a (√ ) in the column that corresponds to the sound pronounced. Were Bared Bairn Err Her Stair Per Cur fare Created by Mariángel Lugo, Lino Pereira and Margelie Pulgar
6. In context: Contextualized minimal pairs Listen to each sentence. Place a (√ ) next to the correct response. Look at the example: 0. a. _____ Everybody is screaming. b. _____ You could paint the ceiling with it. √ 1. a. ____ It´s a pine. b. ____ It´s the right thing. 2. a. ____ It has beautiful wings. b. ____ It has many accessories. 3. a. ____ She has a long, straight and blonde one. b. ____ Not him. 4. a. ____ He has a big amount of it. b. ____ His horse runs faster than the others. √ √ √ √
7. 5. a. ____ The band was off key. b. ____ It was with blank ink. 6. a. ____ She suffered them last year. b. ____ They are twins. 7. a. ____ Her muscles are well-developed. b. ____ She´s turning 13 next week. 8. a. ____ He shows live b. ____ He doesn´t admit his mistakes. √ √ √ √
8. III. CONTROLLED PRACTICE WITH FEEDBACK Help your students to practice reading the following idioms and sayings. Pay special attention to the words that have the / З : / and the /e∂r/ sound. The words that have the / З :/ have been underlined. The early bird catches the worm. It was a hair-raising experience for everyone involved. It really gets on my nerves. A penny saved is a penny earned. A picture is worth a thousand words. Air your dirty laundry in public. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Their bark is worse than their bite. To err is human, to forgive divine Taken from: www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/
9. IV. GUIDED PRACTICE WITH FEEDBACK Scrambled dialogue Make your students read the following scrambled sentences. After that ask them for putting them in order to form a coherent dialogue. Then, ask them for reading it aloud. A. Mary: Yes, that´s right. I have a lot of work too. First, I have to clean the house. It´s all dirty. And then, I have to go to the Institute where I learn French. B. Robert: Hello! I´m great and you? C. Mary:Hahaha; even though I feel nervous because I have the final interview today. D. Robert:Wao! That´s my girl! E. Mary: Cool! But what are you doing awake so early? F. Robert: Really? Oh well, I hope you could pass your interview with flying colors. G. Mary: Hi Robert. How are you? H. Robert: You know, the early bird catches the worm. I have a lot of work today. I. Mary: Oh thank you! Well, I have to go now. See you soon then. J. Robert: Yes, I have to return to work too. See you 0.____ 1. _____ 2. _____ 3. ______ 4. _____ 5. _____ 6. _____ 7. _____ 8. _____ 9. _____ G B H A D E C F I J Created by Mariangel Lugo, Lino Pereira and Margelie Pulgar
10. V. COMMUNICATIVE PRACTICE WITH FEEDBACK Reaching a consensus Work in pairs. Imagine you and a friend want to travel to New York and in your luggage you are just allowed to take 10 things. Make a list of your 10 things and then, with the things your partner chose, you both have to agree in a new 10-thing-list. Try to use words that contain the / З : / sound.
