Pronunciation Activity /w/ /v/ (There’s an activity for that!)
Posted on November 4th, 2009 by Debra
Do your students have trouble differentiating /w/ and /v/? There’s an activity for that! As I was planning for a class earlier, I used an article about Verizon Wireless from the internet, and it turned out to be a great activity for a student who was experiencing problems with the difference between the /v/ and /w/ sounds. Words of interest include: available, coverage, wireless, allow, over among many others. This activity also works for the common /l/ and /r/ phoneme mix-up.
Previously, I attached a link to the article which I used, but it is no longer available 
. However, you can find similar and more timely articles by searching for for similar topics on Google News.
Some ideas on how to use these articles are:
- reading aloud
- contrasting phonemes
- listen and repeat
- vocabulary development
- current events
- spelling a word exactly as the student pronounces it
- information gap story
- finish the story
- the beginning of a debate
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