We have started the lesson today with a pronunciation exercise. We had a look at how the grapheme ch is pronounced in different ways, especially in /tò/ as in church or in /k/ as in mechanic. Some of the words written on the blackboard included: beach, stomach, cherry, chemistry. teach, chaos, headache, chalk, choir. Then we had a look at the words machine and yacht where the grapheme ch has a different pronunciation, sound /ò/ in machine and silent (not pronounced) in the case of yacht.
- /tò/: church, beach, cherry, teach, chalk.
- /k/: mechanic, stomach, chemistry, chaos, headache, choir.
We continued afterwards with the idiom of the day: out of the blue. This is another idiom using the colour blue; we have seen before once in a blue moon.
Then, question tags were explained again and, in order to practise, we listened to the song A Little Time by the British pop band The Beautiful South. Students had to listen to the song while filling in the gaps with appropriate question tags, phrasal verbs, expressions, and also choose between pairs of words with similar pronunciation.
We finished the lesson with some more controlled practice of question tags; the purpose was to naturalise the use of question tags to sound more natural when speaking in English.
In future posts I'll include the song and the exercise associated to it, and I'll also explain the meaning of the idiom of the day.
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