Practising and developing pronunciation of key language from the video focusing on the short vowel sound /æ/
as in CAN, HAS, PANDA, ANIMAL, RABBIT, PARROT and as in CAT, RAT, HAMSTER, CAMEL, BAT, CRAB
Click the link: The Best Pet A1 – Activity 3
Do this activity on the interactive whiteboard with the whole class or learners play individually on their own devices.
Learners listen to the word and choose the one that they hear. The words have similar pronunciation but only some of them contain the sound /æ/
Learners think of more words containing the short vowel sound /æ/
e.g.: ant, antelope, alligator, lamb, man, hand, have, back, fat,
The BOOST Project (Building Open Online Series for Teaching) aims to improve the digital readiness of teachers of English as a foreign language to students aged 8 -14 by providing an open-access series of engaging native-speaker content videos linked with a Resource Pack of ready-made activities to stimulate production of the language in online learning.
