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4C Pronunciation ENGLISH FILE

Intermediate

Description Students identify /s/ or /z/ in words with se in them

Lesson link Use this activity after exercise 6
Time 5 minutes
Extra material Print out and photocopy the /s/ or /z/? worksheet for each pair of students

Instructions
a In 4 Pronunciation & Speaking SS have looked at
different pronunciations of se. If you feel your SS
need further practice with this, make a copy of the
/s/ or /z/ worksheet for each pair of SS.
b Tell SS to put the words on the page into the
correct columns by identifying the pronunciation
sound in bold. When SS have finished, check their
answers, and if there are mistakes, tell them, for
example, ‘No, sorry, you have two mistakes’. Don’t
tell the SS what the mistakes are, but let them look
for the mistakes themselves.
c Feed back as a class.

Answers

/s/
course, increase, nursery school, research, practise,
promise, suitcase, embarrassed

/z/
advertise, revise, present, choose, dessert, houses,
lose, rise

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suitcase increase suitcase increase

choose dessert choose dessert

4C Pronunciation

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course course
rise rise

revise revise

present present

lose lose

research research
promise promise

embarrassed advertise embarrassed advertise

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houses houses
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nursery school nursery school

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