Period 07: PRACTICE 1: PHONETICS
Preparation date: August 5th

I. Aims: Review English consonants and vowels.
II. Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
-realize the relationship between the sounds and spellings of English consonants/ vowels.
- pronounce English consonants and vowels correctly.
- write the phonetic transcription
III. Teaching materials: Lesson plan, chalk, blackboard, handouts, phonetic chart
IV. Teaching methods: Communicative Approach
V. Anticipated problems: Students may have difficulty realizing the relationship between the sounds and spellings ofEnglish consonants/ vowels, as well as doing phonetic transcription exercises, so teacher should be ready to help.
VI. Procedure
Stages/Timing/Focus
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities

Warm-up
(5ms)

Teacher-whole class
Team work
Greeting (1’)
Game: Who is the quickest? (4’)
- Divide class into4groups
- Give the game rules
+ You will go to the board and write down all the English vowels and consonants as many as possible in 2 minutes. The fastest group with most correct answers will be the winner.
- Check understanding of the rules (if necessary)
- Control the game
- Check and declare the winner.
Greeting


- Form 4 groups
Listen to the rule


- Answer teacher’s questions
- Write the school subjects
- Celebrate
- Expected answers:
+ Consonants : b, c, d, f, g, h, j, k, l, m, n, p, q, r, s, t, v, w, x, y, z
+ Vowels: a, e, i, o, u

Presentation
(20ms)

Teacher-whole class
Lead-in(2’)
- Say: “Today, I’m going to show you how to realize and pronounce English consonants and vowels correctly.”
- Write the title on the board
2. The vowel sounds (Handouts, 10’)
a. General concept
- Ask the question: “What do you know about the English vowels?”

- Listen

- Copy down


* Expected answers: Varied




Teacher-whole class

- Give the corrective feedback
+ There are 5 basic vowel letters: u, e, o, a, i.
+ A vowel letter can represent different vowel sounds.
+ The same vowel sound is often represented by different vowel letters in writing.
- Give examples

b. Classification
- Ask “How many vowel sounds in English do you know?”
- Give comments and feedback
- Deliver handouts to students
- Ask students to look at the chart, listen and repeat chorally
- Ask some students to read aloud individually
- Ask students how and when the consonant sounds occur
- Give corrective feedback

c. Notes (handouts)
- Remind students of some special cases of the English vowel sounds.
+ Semi vowels or glides
+ Schwa
+ Linking vowels into vowels
- Checking students’ understanding

3. Consonant sounds (Handouts, 10’)
a. General concept
- Ask the question: “What do you know about the English consonants?”
- Give the corrective feedback
+ A consonant letter usually represents one consonant sound. Some consonant letters, for example, c, g, s, can represent two different consonant sounds.
- Give examples

b. Classification
- Ask “How many consonant sounds in English do you know?”
- Give comments and feedback
- Ask students to look at the chart, listen and repeat chorally
- Ask some students to read aloud individually
- Ask students how and when the vowel sounds occur
- Give corrective feedback







* Expected answers: 20 vowel sounds
- Listen
- Receive handouts
- Listen and repeat chorally
- Read aloud individually
- Listen and answer the questions
- Listen


-Listen and take notes



- Ask questions if necessary



* Expected answers: Varied
- Listen


- Listen


* Expected answers: about24 consonant sounds
- Listen
- Listen and repeat chorally
- Read aloud individually
- Listen and answer the questions
- Listen


c. Notes
- Remind students of some special cases of the English consonant sounds.
+ ED ending sounds
+ ES/S ending sounds
+ Mute consonants
- Checking students’ understanding

- Listen and take notes



- Ask questions if necessary


Practice
(12ms)




Pair work
Teacher-whole class











Pair work
Teacher-whole class


Task