1. THE OUTCOME
Participants will:
renew their awareness of the
components of listening and
responding in discussion
Effective listening skills
‘Ear, Eye, Acknowledging differing points of
view
Undivided Offering own point of view
Checking and confirming
Attention’ understanding(Syllabus fromOCR
Adult Literacy Speaking and Listening
E.3)
Listening and will be able to use exercises to
enable their students to:
Responding in a • release tension
Discussion • enhance listening
• help with appropriate
pronunciation including vowel
length,effect of
ETAI 2010 /p//t//k/on preceeding
vowel,consonant clusters(no
deletion in initial
clusters),nuclear
Liz Shapiro stress,word groups
speed,pause and volume
Exercises : BrainGym®
Relaxation of articulatory
system
Pronunciation
Drawing
Listening
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2. Listening and responding in discussion
ETAI 2010 Liz Shapiro ETAI 2010 Listening and responding
Breathing Exercises:
Some of these examples website:
www.scribd.com
Exercise 1
BREATH OUT
Let breath come in and fill
your body from the ground
up
Repeat
BREATH OUT
Let breath come in and fill
your body from the ground
up
Exercise 2
BREATH OUT SLOWLY: FFF
SSSS EVENLY !
A B C
A B C D
1 2 3
1 2 3 4 etc evenly PRACTICE!
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3. Relaxing the jaw:
FAH FAH FAH
BLAH BLAH BLAH
Tongue tips:
LLD DDD LLL DDD LDL LDL LDL
Lips:
WWW WWW WWW
BBB BBB BBB
WBW WBW WBW
MUMMY POPPY, MUMMY POPPY
Tongue and Lips:
LLL LDL WWW LDL WLWD
Facial exercises and long vowel sounds:
OO EE OO EE
Vowel contrasts:
MAT MAD
RICH REACH
POOL PULL
SIXTEEN SIXTY
Increase your resonance:
KING KONG
DING DONG
BING BONG
Emphasising Keywords:
I’M EXTREMELY HAPPY
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4. More vowel contrast:
He hit my bag.
He hit my back.
( Did it hurt?
Was it damaged?)
/є:/
I don’t know the longest word for bird in the world…not Emu
GIVE PAPA A CUP OF PROPER COFFEE IN A COPPER
COFFEE CUP
A BIG BLACK BUG BIT A BIG BLACK BEAR AND
MADE THE BIG BLACK BEAR BLEED BLOOD
BETTY BOTTER BOUGHT SOME BUTTER BUT THE
BUTTER BETTY BOTTER BOUGHT WAS BITTER, SO
BETTY BOTTER BOUGHT SOME BETTER BUTTER,
BETTER THAN THE BITTER BUTTER BETTY BOTTER
HAD BOUGHT
NINE NICE NIGHT NURSES NURSING NICELY
PLEASE PAY PROMPTLY, PLEASE PAY PROMPTLY
RED LEATHER, YELLOW LEATHER
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5. RED LORRY, YELLOW LORRY
SAY THIS SHARPLY, SAY THIS SWEETLY;
SAY THIS SHORTLY, SAY THIS SOFTLY;
SAY THIS SIXTEEN TIMES IN SUCCESSION
Listening and responding ETAI 2010
For Word Groups:
Limerick:
The lion gave a sudden stop,
He let the dainty morsel drop,
And slunk reluctant to his cage
Snarling with disappointed rage.
Poems:
‘Night Mail’ W H Auden 1907- 73
‘Fishbones Dreaming’ Matthew Sweeney
‘Phenomenal Woman’ Maya Angelou 1928 –
Listening and Responding in Discussion 2010 Etai
2010 Liz Shapiro
Body Language Game.
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6. Students make a circle with one student in the middle. The student in the
middle expresses a feeling or idea using only one word said in an appropriate
manner and , at the same time , using an appropriate gesture or movement to
illustrate the feeling or idea expressed.
Then all the students repeat the word and action ...
ie ‘hello’ to an imaginary neighbour( on a good day, a bad day or a sad day.)
They have to identify the feeling.
Alternatively, the student in the middle speaks a sentence using word
emphasis and gesture to identify the nuclear stress of the sentence and its
meaning.
ie I live here………(not you)
I LIVE here …....(always)
I live HERE (a. always and like it
b, Always and don’t like it)
More games for body language can be found in ‘Games for Actors and Non-
Actors’ Augusto Boal
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7. Acknowledging and Responding to other points of view
”You’re right”
“ I quite agree”
“Maybe,but…”
“That’s very interesting, but…”
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8. “I understand what you mean, but…”
“I agree with your point that…but…”
“I see your point, but…”
“I think..”
“from my point of view..”
“as I see it…”
“in my opinion…”
“I’m afraid I don’t agree… because...”
“I don’t think that’s right… because… ”
“I’d not thought of it that way…”
BIBLIOGRAPHY
‘Ear, Eye, Undivided Attention’. Listening and Responding in a Discussion
Apps, J. 2009 Voice of Influence, Crown House Publishing Ltd, UK
and USA
Boal, A. (translated by Jackson, A.) 1992 Games For Actors and
Non-Actors, Routledge London, UK
Dennison, P. & G. 2010 (USA) Brain Gym Teachers’ Edition, Hearts
at Play, Inc., a division of Edu-Kinesthetics, USA
Department for Education and Skills,UK, 2003, Skills For Life -
Teacher Reference ESOL
Hewings, M. 2004, Pronunciation Practice Activities, A resource
book for teaching English Pronunciation, Cambridge University
Press, UK
Jenkins, J. 2009 World Englishes, Oxford University Press, UK
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9. Jenkins, J. 2000 The Phononolgy of English as an International
Language, Oxford University Press, UK
Oxford Cambridge RSA Exams, OCR Basic Skills Adult Literacy
Entry Level Certificate Tutors Handbook, OCR Publications
Prodromou, L. 2008 English as a Lingua Franca A Corpus based
Analysis, Continuum, London
Swan, M. and Smith, B. 1987 Learner English –
A Teacher’s Guide to Interference and Other Problems,
Cambridge University Press, UK
Walker, R. 2010 Teaching the Pronunciation of English as a Lingua
Franca, Oxford Handbook for Language Teachers, Oxford
University Press (Chapter 4 Techniques and Materials for teaching
ELF Pronunciation)
BIBLIOGRAPHY: WEBSITES USED :
‘Ear, Eye, Undivided Attention’. Listening and Responding in a Discussion
www.ocr.org.uk to access OCR Entry Level Certification in Adult
Literacy Speaking and Listening Entry 3, sample candidates
evidence sheet and learning outcome sheet
www.excellencegateway.org.uk to access Skills For Life ESOL
curriculum
www.scribd.com/doc/3974305/British-Accent- Module to
access examples of ‘Speaking with the Perfect Tongue’ (a module
on British Accent training)
www.phonememachine.com for sound and lip movement and for
Free Thrass phoneme machine
www.en.tellmemore.com/shop - programme used at Manchester
Metropolitan University
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10. www.tellmemorecorporate.com – tell me more online
www.accentschool.com for pronunciation and intonation
www.thinks.com – for some examples of ‘Tongue Twisters’
www.telus.net/internationalintelligibility - Pronunciatiion for
International Intelligibility by Robin Walker, 2001
www.iatefl/britishcouncil/org/2010/sessions2010-04-
08/globalization-english-implications-business-english-classroom-
robin-walker a video
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