Monologues to improve pronunciation

  This blog aims to be a tool  to improve the pronunciation of the English language.  You will find subtitled videos, tips and suggestions  of fun activities to enjoy this practice. Pronunciation as a Speaking micro-skill is based on three fundamental elements: stress, pitch, gestures. Stress Jordán et al. (2019, p.31) explains that stress is the “ intensity given to a syllable of speech by special effort in utterance, resulting in relative loudness”. According to Yates (2002a), explains that stress is important at three different levels: Word level : Multisyllabic words have one or more syllables that are stressed Sentence level : The most important words tend to be stressed Contrastive stress : The most important words carry greater stress   Pitch Muñoz (2016b, p.18) explains that pitch is “the melody that complements the speech” Pitch changes according to the expression and meaning that is issued. It is intrinsically related to stress, so pi...

ACTIVITY 1 Monologue: Mom, I need you. Pronunciation Focus : Stress   Warm-up For this activity, you can divide the students into small groups. Write a few sentences of the monologue, the words of the monologue should be in random order. The first group or student to unscramble the sentences and read the sentence aloud correctly wins that round.   Extensive viewing Invite students to watch the monologue at home and then record themselves performing it. Ask the students to take care of the stress of the words. For which it is convenient to put into practice the following tips: ü   Play  the monologue. ü Detect changes in strength of voice. ü Memorize the monologue. ü Record a video performing the monologue. Review the video and if you consider necessary record again. ü upload the final recording to the virtual platform. Feedback Once the monologues have been uploaded, randomly assign a video to each student and ask them to comment on a p...

  ACTIVITY 2 Monologue: Aliens. Pronunciation Focus : Stress   Warm-up For this activity, you can divide the students into small groups. Write a few sentences of the monologue, the words of the monologue should be in random order. The first group or student to unscramble the sentences and read the sentence aloud correctly wins that round.   Extensive viewing Invite students to watch the monologue at home and then record themselves performing it. Ask the students to take care of the stress of the words. For which it is convenient to put into practice the following tips: ü  Play  the monologue. ü Detect changes in strength of voice. ü Memorize the monologue. ü Record a video performing the monologue. Review the video and if you consider necessary record again. ü upload the final recording to the virtual platform. Feedback Once the monologues have been uploaded, randomly assign a video to each student and ask them to comment on a po...

  ACTIVITY 3 Monologue: okay, okay. Pronunciation Focus : Gestures.   Warm-up Prepare five groups of cards with five different gestures. Cover them and have each student take one. Then the students will walk around the room imitating that gesture, while observing others and joining those who make the same gesture and form a team.   Extensive viewing Invite students to watch the monologue at home and then record themselves performing it. Ask the students to take care of the stress of the words. For which it is convenient to put into practice the following tips: ü   Play  the monologue. ü Detect changes in tone and strength of voice. ü Analyze the sections where you can express different emotions such as joy, sadness, anger, surprise. ü Memorize the monologue. ü Record a video performing the monologue. Review the video and if you consider necessary record again. ü upload the final recording to the virtual platform. Feedback Once...

  ACTIVITY 4 Monologue: The little sister. Pronunciation Focus : Gestures.   Warm-up Prepare five groups of cards with five different gestures. Cover them and have each student take one. Then the students will walk around the room imitating that gesture, while observing others and joining those who make the same gesture and form a team.   Extensive viewing Invite students to watch the monologue at home and then record themselves performing it. Ask the students to take care of the stress of the words. For which it is convenient to put into practice the following tips: ü   Play  the monologue. ü Detect changes in tone and strength of voice. ü Analyze the sections where you can express different emotions such as joy, sadness, anger, surprise. ü Memorize the monologue. ü Record a video performing the monologue. Review the video and if you consider necessary record again. ü upload the final recording to the virtual platform. Feedback ...

  ACTIVITY 5 Monologue: I am sitting. Pronunciation Focus : Pitch.   Warm-up Prepare an easy tongue twister for a challenge in class.   Extensive viewing Invite students to watch the monologue at home and then record themselves performing it. Ask the students to take care of the stress of the words. For which it is convenient to put into practice the following tips:   ü   Play  the monologue. ü Detect changes in strength of voice. ü Detect changes in tone of voice. ü Analyze the sections where you can express different emotions such as joy, sadness, anger, surprise. ü Memorize the monologue. ü Record a video performing the monologue. Review the video and if you consider necessary record again. ü upload the final recording to the virtual platform. Feedback Once the monologues have been uploaded, randomly assign a video to each student and ask them to comment on a positive aspect found in that work.  

  ACTIVITY 6 Monologue: A big problem. Pronunciation Focus : Pitch.   Warm-up Prepare an easy tongue twister for a challenge in class.   Extensive viewing Invite students to watch the monologue at home and then record themselves performing it. Ask the students to take care of the stress of the words. For which it is convenient to put into practice the following tips:   ü   Play  the monologue. ü Detect changes in strength of voice. ü Detect changes in tone of voice. ü Analyze the sections where you can express different emotions such as joy, sadness, anger, surprise. ü Memorize the monologue. ü Record a video performing the monologue. Review the video and if you consider necessary record again. ü upload the final recording to the virtual platform. Feedback Once the monologues have been uploaded, randomly assign a video to each student and ask them to comment on a positive aspect found in that work.