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Target students:
Chinese housewives in State College who have some basic knowledge of English

Overall Instructional Goal:

Teaching the vowel sounds: /iy/ & /i/

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Mini Drama Watch the video (Instruction) Group activity: Lucky Wheel Homework

Read your group name loudly to whole class.

Watch the video and learn how to

pronounce the sound /iy/

Practice speaking while watching

the video. http://funeasyenglish.com/newamerican-english-pronunciationlesson-1-pronouncing-sound-e-ea-eeei-eo-ey-i-ie-y-in-words-heel-keypiece-seat.htm

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Working with your group members come up with words
about food which contains the two vowels /iy/ & /i/ (e, ea, ee, ei, eo, ey,i,ie, y) as much as possible in minutes.

Sharing your words with whole class. Each group will

only have seconds to share their food vocabulary.

(each words: 10 points)

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Making a situational dialogue with your
group members. ( min) The dialogue can happen in any context such as grocery store, home, street, etc. Using at least thre ewords containing the two vowels /iy/ & /i/ respectively. Sharing your dialogue with whole class (Lucky wheel) While each group shares their dialogue, the rest of class listen carefully and clap hands twice or once when they hear the two vowels /iy/ & /i/.

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Recorded practice:
recording. In this recording, students are supposed to record any sentences which they have heard or used in the week that contains the two vowels /iy/ & /i/. Examples: I have bought a crispy pizza today. students record a 2-3 minutes

My husband wants to eat beef.