Pronunciation Teaching

Corpus-Based Lessons For Primary Levels

Topic: Sharkie s and sh

Designer: Lau Hiu Shan

Target Students: Primary 4

Corpus Used: The Spoken Corpus of the English of Hong Kong and Mainland Chinese learners

Unit Plan Sharkie “s” and “sh” by Lau Hiu Shan (For P4 students)

Topic: Dental Fricative Consonant /θ/ 

Designer: Cheung Chun Sing

Target Students: Primary 3

Corpus Used: The Spoken Corpus of the English of Hong Kong and Mainland Chinese learners

Class Duration: 35 minutes

Unit Plan – Watch me Throw the Ball by CHEUNG Chun Sing (For P3 students)

 

Topic: Schwa Sound and Consonant-vowel linking

Designer: Cheung Chun Sing

Target Students: Primary 3

Corpus Used: The Spoken Corpus of the English of Hong Kong and Mainland Chinese learners

Class Duration: 35 Minutes

Unit Plan – If You Take a Mouse to the Movies by CHEUNG Chun Sing (For P3 students)

 

 

Topic: The English Consonant Sound /v/

Designer: Tang Yixin

Target Students: Primary 4 (Mainland China)

Corpus Used: The Spoken Corpus of the English of Hong Kong and Mainland Chinese learners

Class Duration: 80 Minutes

Group 3 Lesson Plan(final)_wrapper

 

Topic:  Let’s go shopping – Initial consonant cluster with -l and -r

Designers: Gong Zhen & Li Ting

Target Students: Primary 4 (Hong Kong)

Corpus Used: The Spoken Corpus of the English of Hong Kong and Mainland Chinese learners

Class Duration: 80 Minutes

Group 4 PPT

Group 4 consonant cluster

Group 4 Worksheet

 

 

Topic: Intonation of Wh Questions and Yes/no Questions

Designer: Jiayi Zhong (Fung Kai No.1 Primary School)

Target Students: Primary 5

Corpus Used: The Spoken English Corpus of Chinese and Non-Chinese Learners in Hong Kong

Class Duration:  Double lesson (70 minutes)

Intonation of Wh-questions and Yes/no Questions

 

Topic: English Pronunciation–The Consonant Sound /θ/

Designer: QIN Shengni

Target Students: Primary 6 students

Corpus Used: Spoken English Corpus of Chinese Learners in Hong Kong

Class Duration: 60 minutes

The Consonant Sound /θ/

Worksheets

 

 

Corpus-Based Lessons For Secondary Levels

Topic: Consonant Sound /l/

Designers: Zhang Yu; Mei Fang

Target Students: Junior Secondary 1

Corpus Used: The Spoken Corpus of the English of Hong Kong and Mainland Chinese learners

Class Duration: 90 Minutes

Group 5 Phonetics Teaching Plan

Group 5 PPT

 

Topic: Language lab intern

Designers: Chen Xi, Sibyl

Target Students: Junior Secondary 3

Corpus Used: The Spoken Corpus of the English of Hong Kong and Mainland Chinese learners

Class Duration: 120 minutes

Lesson plan- Langauge Lab by Chen Xi (For S3 students)

 

Topic: Dental fricative /θ/ and /ð/

Designers: Anonymous EdUHK students

Target Students: Junior Secondary 3 (mainland China)

Corpus Used: The Spoken Corpus of the English of Hong Kong and Mainland Chinese learners

Class Duration: 135 Minutes

Group 2 Lesson Plan

Corpus-Based Lessons For Tertiary Levels

Topic: Intonation matters: “Sorry” seems to be the hardest word

Designers: YANG Yanchao, JING Bosheng & ZHAO Peng

Target Students: First year English majors at college

Corpus Used: Youglish (https://youglish.com/)

Class Duration:  45 minutes

Intonation matters: “Sorry” seems to be the hardest word

 

Topic: English Pronunciation – /tʃ/ & /dʒ/

Designers: QIAN Bojie

Target Students: English Majors (Freshmen)

Corpus Tool Used: https://corpus.eduhk.hk/english_pronunciation/

Class Duration:  45 minutes

English Pronunciation – /tʃ/ & /dʒ/