Pronunciation Assessment Criteria

All levels1 hr 7 minIELTS Test PreparationLesson 6 of 8 · Outline

Aims

Goal: perform the four scoreable pronunciation features — word stress, sentence stress, chunking, intonation — anchored by one answer notated at two band levels, accent myths removed.

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. Warm up5 min

    Warm-up: Your accent is not the problem

    2 warm-up questions

  1. Reading10 min

    Reading: How Pronunciation Is Really Scored

    Read a 270-word text about How Pronunciation Is Really Scored

  2. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: Pronunciation Terminology

    6 items

  3. Reading10 min

    Reading: Hearing the criterion: the same answer, two deliveries

    Read a 359-word text about Hearing the criterion: the same answer, two deliveries

  4. Practice7 min

    Practice: Identify the Feature

    Gap-fill exercise, 5 items

  5. Practice7 min

    Practice: Match the Stress Pattern

    Matching exercise, 6 items

  6. Dialogue10 min

    Dialogue: Pronunciation Feature Practice

    Role-play: Practise delivering answers with deliberate attention to pronunciation features. (3 lines)

  7. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Your mission: perform the features

    3 discussion questions

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Target vocabulary

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word stressintonationconnected speechchunkingminimal pairschwa

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