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Making Up Visual Cards

PrimaryPrimary Middle School Middle

Personal and social capabilityAustralian Curriculum General Capability: Personal and Social Capability

Critical and Creative Thinking Australian Curriculum General Capability: Critical and Creative Thinking

  

1. You are to have a look at the App from Fun Deck:  

Fun Deck

This app looks at helping students with speech difficulties to understand irregular verbs. The cartoons are excellent and engaging!

2.  What words did you find hard to understand or remember to use correctly? List them down. If you don't remember having difficulties - have a look at this website and select 5 irregular verbs that you could illustrate similar to the Fun Deck:

English Club

3. Go to Web Cartoon Maker to start creating your cartoons.

Web Cartoon Maker 

4. Share with a partner

 

 

Mispronounced words in Australia?

  Secondary Secondary

Literacy Australian Curriculum General Capability: Literacy

 

 

1. Go and have a look at the following website:

100 words

 

2. In your class, divide up this list of 100 so that each person has 3-7 words each. Create a card for each word with similar information as per the website.

3. Survey and record on your iphone how another class or a group of students pronounces each word.

Here is a list of free iphone apps for recording:

Voice Record Pro

Voice Record Pro
iTalk

iTalk


Voice Memos
The built-in app from Apple provides the easiest way to record voice on iPhone. It is free, clean without advertisement. If all you need is a dependable voice recording app to record anything from class lectures to common conversations, then Voice Memos is more than sufficient to do the job. It is pre-installed on your iPhone so there is no need to download anything. Apart from recording voice, it is able to share audio in two ways – SMS and Email.
Smart Recorder

Smart Recorder

4. Play back the students' pronunciations and see if you can pick up on any differences.

5. Ask your English teacher to verify the correct Australian pronunciation of each word.

6. Reflection

Reflection.

Were there any words that you mispronounced? How will you learn the correct pronunciation? What strategies will you undertake to re-learn? Share with a partner.

 

 

 

 

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