I hope you're enjoying the weekend. On Thursday we once again reviewed voiced and voiceless sounds. By the time we are done with voicing, you will be able to teach this unit!
The sounds we practiced are the voiceless / voiced pair /s/ and /z/. First we did some listening, then we practiced orally using minimal pairs and minimal sentences. The Spanish speakers had a lot of trouble with the /z/ sound. It's hard when you don't have that sound in your first language. I suggested you start by saying the ssssssssss sound, then add the voicing. Suddenly you are saying zzzzzzzzz. Does that work for you?
We listened to a dialogue about a picnic and tried to identify the different ways the underlined -S endings can sound. We then put those words into one of three columns: /s/, /z/ and /Iz/ or /əd/.
We practiced the dialogue orally. For our last activity, we did a chain story about going on a picnic. We took turns adding to the long list of items we will bring on the picnic; everyone had to say all the previous items plus the one they were adding to the list. We said we were taking: blankets, oranges, racquets and birdies, Frisbees, etc.
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