DUE TO THE FACT THAT WE ARE HAVING TWO TESTS ON THE SAME DAY, TIME WILL BE AN IMPORTANT FACTOR. THEREFORE, THE WRITTEN TEST IS STARTING AT 9.10. IF YOU ARE LATE, YOU WILL BE ALLOWED TO GET INTO THE CLASSROOM ONLY WHEN LISTENING ACTIVITY FINISHES.
WRITTEN
WRITTEN
- LISTENING : listen to some minimal pair sentences. identify the Word and trancribe it. You are supposed to transcribe only ONE WORD. All of them will be minimal pairs.
- Transcrption of minimal pairs. For example, West / Worst
- Weak form and strong forms. I'll give you some words and you are expected to write the strong and weak form. E.g. but /bʌt/ & /bət/
- Weak forms in context. I'll give you some sentences and you have to write the weak forms of the functon words. e.g. Do you want a cup of tea? /də/ /jə/ /ə/ /əv/
- Mark stress and underline schwa. E.g. 'letter
ORAL
- minimail pairs in transcription
- Some words randomly chosen from the many words we have transcribed in class.
Aspects to be assessed
- pronunciation of vowles. Pay special attention to vowels 1,2 / 4,5,10 / 6,7 / 3,11,12 /8,9, which share some similarities in terms of pronunciation.
- fluency
