Week 2: Listening Exercise / Learning Styles

Think you're an Auditory or Visual Learner?

Scientists Say it's Unlikely

Listen to the following podcast on learning styles taken from National Public Radio. Provide a complete answer to the following questions. Don’t forget to print a copy of this exercise and bring it to class to be checked.

Question about the podcast	Your answers
01. Do teachers plan their lessons taking into account that kids learn in different ways?	Explain your answer.
02. Is there scientific evidence that children learn differently?	Explain your answer.
03. Which of these learners is mentioned by Patti Neighmond?	Check three. * visual learner * tactile learner * auditory learner * ADHD learner * Kinesthetic learner
04. What does Prof. Dan Willingham (University of Virginia) say about the so-called visual learners in the math class?
05. What did Prof. Doug Rohner (University of South Florida) discover about learning styles?
06. According to Willingham, should we consider that brains work differently?	Explain your answer.
07. If this theory about learning styles is not true, do all people learn the same then?	Explain your answer.
08. How should teachers plan their instruction according to Willingham?
09. What does variety in the classroom boost (increase)?
10. What is Mark Bordelon’s idea of learning? Do you agree with his viewpoint?
12.  What other teaching technique does Psychologist Rohrer mention?

Information taken from National Public Radio at http://www.npr.org

Get a copy of this listening exercise over here. Click and wait for about 15 seconds to download the document.

Week 2: Point of Articulation Exercise (2)

What do the Following Groups of Sounds Have in Common?

Pronounce each set of sounds. Identify what it is that each group has in common.

Sounds	Place of Articulation
/p/ /b/ /m/ /w/
/f/ /v/
/ð/ /ϴ/
/t/ /d/ /s/ /z/ /n/ /l/ /r/
/ʃ/ /ʒ/ /tʃ/ /dʒ/ /y/
/k/ /g/ /ŋ/
/h/

Get the answers here!

Week 2: Point of Articulation Exercise (1)

What Kind of Sound is Being Described?

Read each of the description in the chart carefully. If needed, go back to the “speech apparatus” picture as reference. Then, match one of the places of articulation with one of the following descriptions below.

?	Here both lips are important in consonant sound production.
?	The roof of the mouth and the tongue interact in producing some consonants.
?	Here, upper and lower teeth interact with the tip of the tongue to produce some sounds.
?	This part is also known as soft palate and is located where the uvula is, and this part interacts with the back of the tongue to produce consonant sounds.
?	Lower lip and upper teeth interact here to produce certain consonants.
?	Only a single sound is produced here when the vocal cords open.
?	The tip of the tongue is placed behind this part of the mouth to produce certain sounds.

Week 2: Consonant Features (2)

Place of Articulation

Not only voicing is used to classify consonants; place or point of articulation in another feature that is used as well. Place of articulation is directly linked with our speech apparatus because all of its parts play an important role in consonant sound production.

Based on where we place our tongues within our mouths or its interaction with other parts of the speech apparatus, we can classify sounds accordingly. There are seven different categories of sounds if classified with this second consonant feature:

1. Bilabial consonant sounds

2. Labio-dental consonant sounds

3. Interdental consonant sounds

4. Alveolar consonant sounds

5. Palatal consonant sounds

6. Velar consonant sounds

7. Glottal consonant sounds

Knowing the points of articulation of sounds has two advantages. On the one hand, you can self-correct your pronunciation and reduce your accent in English. On the other hand, having this knowledge accessible implies that you can correct your future students to avoid using Spanish sounds (or any other language sounds) to speak English.

Week 2: Transcriptions by Thematic Units 2

Transcriptions by Thematic Units 2:

Types of Trees

Almond Tree

The following exercise requires that you listen to the following words and transcribe them in class. Listen to the words on the Google translation service at http://translate.google.co.cr/#. Then transcribe each of the words or phrases.

Sandalwood Tree

Type of Tree	Transcription
pine tree	/payn triy/
cypress
cedar
almond
oak
mahogany
sequoia
elm
maple
sandalwood
hickory
chestnut

Hickory Tree

Week 2: Plural Forms Pronunciation

How are the following words pronounced in plural forms? With, /s/, /z/, or /ɪz/?

GROUP 1: /s/ vs. /z/

1. injury / injuries
2. knee / knees
3. doctor / doctors
4. drink / drinks
5. teammate / teammates
6. guy / guys
7. brother / brothers
8. thought / thoughts
9. period / periods
10. week / weeks
11. check / checks
12. center / centers
13. emotion / emotions
14. liver / livers
15. family / families

GROUP 2: /z/ vs. /s/ vs. /ɪz/

1. friend / friends
2. wonder / wonders
3. athlete / athletes
4. player / players
5. letter / letters
6. minute / minutes
7. season / seasons
8. month / months
9. place / places
10. cartoon / cartoons
11. wish / wishes
12. donor / donors
13. service / services
14. slogan / slogans
15. increase / increases

NOW LET’S ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:

1. How many brothers do yo have? (Name them.)

2. Can you explain why humans eat cattle's livers?

3. What qualities make good friends? (Mention them.)

4. Name the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

5. Mention at least three outstanding Costa Rican athletes.

6. Name the amount of soccer players in a team by their field-position name.

7. How many minutes are there in a day?

8. Can you name the months of the year or the days of the week in other languages? (Tell your partner.)

9. Which places have you visited this year? (Name them.)

10. What were your favorite cartoons as a kid? Why?

11. What other services should the university provide?

12. How many types of doctors can you name?

NOW READ THE FOLLOWING PASSAGE

American newspapers are very large. On Sunday, they usually cont^hain over a hundred p^hages. Much of this space is occupied by large advert^hisements. Much of the rest of the newspaper is filled with “features” of all k^hinds. These inc^hlude household and beauty suggestions, c^homic strips, gossip c^holumns, and political commentary. Many of these features are syndic^hated, that is, they are sold to large numbers of newspapers throughout the c^hountry and p^hrinted on the same day in all of them.

NOW TRANSCRIBE THE FOLLOWING WORDS FROM THE TEXT ABOVE

1. newspapers
2. pages
3. advertisements
4. kinds
5. suggestions
6. strips
7. columns
8. features
9. numbers

Week 2: The Speech Apparatus

The Components of the Speech Apparatus

http://facweb.furman.edu/~wrogers/phonemes/phono/index.htm

Week 2: Voicing and Regular Plural Forms of Nouns

Voicing and its Application to -s or -es in Regular Plural Forms of Nouns

http://poster.4teachers.org/worksheet/view.php?id=149865