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 this article on Verizon Wireless’ lawsuit and it turned out to be the perfect 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.

Some ideas on how to use this article 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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