Sound matters
A series of pronunciation activities by Adrian Tennant. Each lesson plan focuses on the distinction between two or three problematic phonemes and includes teacher's notes, a student worksheet and a podcast.
Sound matters lesson plans
Pronunciation activities: Part 1
This lesson by Adrian Tennant focuses on the distinction between the long and short 'i' sound, marking the difference in words like 'ship' and 'sheep'.
Pronunciation activities: Part 2
Author: Adrian Tennant Type: General lesson plan
This lesson in the series by Adrian Tennant focuses on the distinction between the two phonemes at the beginning of the words 'yet' and 'jet'.
Pronunciation activities: Part 3
This lesson in the series by Adrian Tennant focuses on the distinction between the sounds 'n' and 'ng' in words like 'ran' and 'rang'.
Pronunciation activities: Part 4
Author: Adrian Tennant Type: General lesson plan
This lesson in the series by Adrian Tennant focuses on the distinction between the phonemes marking the two vowels sounds in the words 'shot' and 'shout'.
Pronunciation activities: Part 5
Author: Adrian Tennant Type: General lesson plan
The fifth lesson in this series by Adrian Tennant focuses on the distinction between the sounds 's', 'sh' and 'ch' in words like 'seat', 'sheet' and 'cheat'.
Pronunciation activities: Part 6
Author: Adrian Tennant
The sixth lesson in this series by Adrian Tennant focuses on the distinction between the phonemes /v/ and /w/.
Pronunciation activities: Part 7
Author: Adrian Tennant Type: General lesson plan
This lesson in the series by Adrian Tennant focuses on the distinction between the long and short 'u' sound, marking the difference in words like 'pull' and 'pool'.
Pronunciation activities: Part 8
Author: Adrian Tennant Type: General lesson plan
This lesson in the series by Adrian Tennant focuses on the distinction between the phonemes marking the two vowels sounds in the words 'ball' and 'bowl'.
Pronunciation activities: Part 9
Author: Adrian Tennant Type: General lesson plan
This lesson in the series by Adrian Tennant focuses on the distinction between the phonemes marking the two vowels sounds in the words 'cat' and 'cut'.
Pronunciation activities: Part 10
Author: Adrian Tennant Type: General lesson plan
Adrian Tennant offers a variety of activities designed to help students practise word stress.
Pronunciation activities: Part 11
Author: Adrian Tennant Type: General lesson plan
This lesson plan by Adrian Tennant focuses on the differences in word stress in nouns and verbs and gives a variety of practice activities for students.
Pronunciation activities: Part 12
Author: Adrian Tennant Type: General lesson plan
This lesson plan by Adrian Tennant focuses on homophones and homographs from the perspective of pronunciation and gives a variety of practice activities for students.
