1. UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL
DE VENEZUELA
FACULTAD DE
HUMANIDADES Y
EDUCACIÓN
Comisión de Estudios de
Postgrado
Área de Lingüística
Maestría en Inglés, mención
Inglés como Lengua
Extranjera
Subject: ICT in ELT
Professor: Evelyn Izquierdo
Author: Terry Springer
•My web-based lesson on the
correct pronunciation of the
past tense regular verbs in
English.

2. This is a web-based
lesson with the sole
purpose of helping
you with the correct
pronunciation of the
past tense regular
verbs in English.

3. •Date: 06-07-2014
•Teacher: Terry Springer
•Class level: intermediate
•Topic:correct pronunciation
of past tense regular verbs.
•Goal: you will be able to
recognize these last sounds, and
begin to pronounce them
correctly.

4.  Objective: one of the most common pronunciation mistakes that native
speakers of Spanish (beginners) make when speaking in English is the
incorrect pronunciation of the past tense regular verbs, which is probably due
to how they separate syllables in their L1. After this lesson, you should be
able to correctly pronounce these past tense forms since this lesson would
provide some explicit and friendly guidelines to facilitate this task and
enhance your learning process

5. •Materials:
1. A computer.
2. Broad bandwidth internet
connection (without this, you may
have trouble accessing our class
wiki).
3. Headset (optional).
•Activities:
1.Create an account in Pbworks:
http://www.pbworks.com/
2. Edit your profile.
3. Upload your photo.
4. web search and find a list of
common regular verbs in
English, and bring them in our
face-face class.

6. •Activities:
5. Watch the following videos
about regular verbs and their
correct pronunciation
https://www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=6j4pLoZlI2s
https://www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=xNwlP4E0Ms0
6. Study the next slide of the past
tense pronunciation, practise
and try to be ready for our next
face-face class.

7. / t / / d / / id /
stop = stopped look
= looked wash =
washed watch =
watched like = liked
walk = walked
help = helped
work = worked miss
= missed
relax = relaxed
learn = learned listen
= listened play =
played
enjoy = enjoyed live =
lived
stay = stayed
open = opened
change =changed
love = loved
learn = learned
call = called
arrive = arrived
smile = smiled
clean = cleaned
decide = decided
want = wanted
start = started
wait = waited
visit = visited
invite = invited
communicate=
communicated
•We pronounce / t / after
voiceless sounds: / p /, / k /, / s
/, / f / and voiceless / th /
sound
•We pronounce / d / after
voiced sounds: / b / , / g /, / v /,
/ z/ , / m/ , /n /, / l /, / r / ,
voiced / th / sound and all
vowels.
•We pronounce / id / after / d /
and / t / sounds.
Simple Past Tense
Regular Verbs - ed
Pronunciation

8. •Web sites used: url
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=6j4pLoZlI2s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=xNwlP4E0Ms0
The rationale for using these two above
mentioned videos is because, as far as I
am concerned, they have very explicit
explanations of the correct pronunciation
of the regular past tense endings. Another
reason for using youtube is due to the
huge amount of links to other videos that
students would have access to. This would
most probably encourage them to do
further pronunciation exercises.

9.  Read the following dialogue. Write the phonetic symbol representing the sound of the
ed-ending above each past tense verb. Practice the dialogue aloud in front of a mirror.
Try to carefully pronounce all past tense endings!
o Kathy: Tom, have you started your diet? I hope you haven’t gained weight.
 Tom: I boiled eggs and sliced celery for lunch.
 Kathy: Have you exercised at all.
 Tom: I walked 5 miles and jogged in the park.
 Kathy: Have you cleaned the house? Calories can be worked off that way.
 Tom: I washed and waxed the floors. I even painted the bathroom.
 Kathy: Who baked this apple pie? Who cooked this ham?
 Tom: When I finished cleaning, I was starved. I prepared this food for dinner.
 Kathy: Oh, no! I’ll take this food home so you won’t be tempted .
 I really enjoyed being with you. You diet is great!
 Tom: What happened? Somehow, I missed out on all the fun.
(Dialogue taken from English Pronunciation Made Simple, Longman)
 Comment on our class wiki about the lesson, the exercise above, and about your
learning experience.
After class activities:

10. • HAVE AN ENJOYABLE
JOURNEY WITH:
•THANK YOU FOR VISITING!