7/8/2020 ALPHABETIC

DECODIFICATIO
N EXERCISES
PRONUNCIATION TECHNIQUES

BY LIBARDO OSPINO
SENA REGIONAL ATLÁNTICO- CCYS
 INTRODUCTION WORDS TO THE MATERIAL

Second language learning and teaching deals with the language formal and functional
branches that together help the learners to mean and form to express, exchange and
convey meanings in social contexts of communication where they are to establish and
maintain social relationships. The formal aspects of the language involves the
grammatical, the semantic and phonetical systems of the language which constitute
the backbone of the language for a coherent communication.

On the other hand, the functional aspect of the language considers the language
speech acts that will help the learners do things with the language such as express
concepts, ideas, and meanings. This material Alphabetic decoding exercises belongs to
the formal branch of the language but have an eye on the functional aspect.

The learning techniques this material presents seeks to fight pronunciation

fossilization due to the learners mispronunciation. Good pronunciation is a highly
cognitive activity that takes three different areas of the human brain. The occipital,
temporal and linguistic area of the brain needs to come in perfect synchronization
when practicing the pronunciation of isolated words or sentences as it is the case of
this material.

Among other formal and functional things, speaking the target language needs good
pronunciation to come on the stage for the message can get through. It is therefore
that this material is aimed at helping learners learn the phonetic principles of the
target language so that they can convey meaningful messages according to the social
needs of the language community they belong to.

Finally. It can be said that this material is a draft that should be considered as
necessary because it takes into account one of the formal aspect of the target language
and it will make the learners better speakers of the foreign language and it will
develop their aptitude towards second language learning.

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 ALPHABETIC DECODIFICATION

WHAT IS ALBAPHETIC DECODIFICATION

The process of teaching the correct pronunciation of single units of

words to foster Second Language Learning or Second Language
Acquisition

WHAT DOES ALPHABETIC DECODIFCATION PREVENT THE

LEARNER FROM

Interlanguage

Pronunciation

Forms

Language usage.

THE REALM OF ALPHABETIC DECODIFICATION

 Belongs to the realm of literacy
 Literacy belongs to the realm of vocabulary building strategies
 Vocabulary building strategies belongs to the realm of the
learning of meanings

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 THE REALM OF LANGUAGE INPUT
 Learning meanings belongs to the realm language input
 Language input deals with both comprehensible input and output
 Comprehensible input and output takes language interaction as
its fundamental ground for social meanings to be spoken and
comprehensible
 Comprehensible input is about intake
 In take deals with social interaction

WHICH SOUNDS ARE TO TEACH IN ALPHABETIC DECODIFICATION

TECHNIQUES?

Vowel sounds
Consonant sounds
Initial sounds of vowels
Initial sounds of consonants
Final sounds of consonants
Intonation
Wh- sounds

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 ALPHABETIC DECODING EXERCISES
THE ALPHABET
A – B- C- D- E -F- G- H- I- J- K- L- M- N- O- P-Q- R- S- T-U- V- W- X-
Y- Z

THE VOWELS

A = EI A= E A= A
E= I E= E
I= AI I= I
O= O OO= O OO= U
U= IU

A= E
Air- Airport- Airplane- Air conditioner- Air conditioning- T= SH
A= EI
Able- Capable- Reachable- le=ol TION: SHION
A= A C=K
Action- actor- actress- army- Altitude- Aptitude- Attitude- Activity-
Activities- Alligator- Apple- Apples- Man- Woman

AU= AU
Author- authorize- authority- Authorities authentic- authenticity

E= I C= K
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Elec trical- Elec tri cian- Elec tric- Elec tronic- Engineer – Eve ning-
Need- Needs- Key- Keys-
E= E
Exit- Example- Every- Enter- Exchange- Exist- Existence – Elegant-
Elegance- Elephant- Elephants-

I= AI
Nice- Nicer- Nicest- High- Higher- Highest- Hide- Wide- Wider- Widest-
Drive- Driver- Driving- Dive- Diving Die- Mice- Eisten- Pine apple-
Pilot- Piloting-

I= I
In - Intelligent- Intelligible- Impolite- Interesting- Interested- Involved-
Involving- Increase- Increased- Increasing- Ingoing- Intense –
Intensify- Fish- Fisher- Fish net- Fisher man

I= E
First - Bird - Girl - Engineer - Happy Bir th day Berzdei

O= O
God- Floor- Box- Job- Fox- Off- So- Song- Son- Color- Smog- Cold-
Colder- Coldest

OO= U
Book- Cook- Good- Look- School- Afternoon- Food- Pool- Foot- Room-
Neighborhood- Livingroom- Dining room- Bedroom- Classroom-
Bathroom- Cool

U= O

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Nurse- Judge- Justice- Justify- Nursery
U= A
Up- Upper- Study- Us
U= IU
University- Universities Uniform- Uniforms-Universe- Universes -
Universal-
EA = I
Teach- Teacher- Teaching- Preach- Preacher- Preaching- Team-
Beam-Tea- Sea- Please- Pleasure- Easy- Clean- Cleaner- Ease-
Easier- Each- Eat- Eaten- Beach

TH = D
They- Them-This- These- That- Those- Father- Mother- Brother-
BE =BI
Be- Beware- Because- Be careful- Beautiful- Beauty
Y=I
Baby -Secretary- Security- Laboratory-Lady- Happy- Candy- Party-
Sandy- Give- Giver- Given

AY= EI
Pay- Pray- Play- Say- Stay Paying- Praying- Saying- Staying
Y= AI
My- Dye- by- Cry- Dry- Try-Buy- Why- Buying- Crying- Drying- Trying

V= F

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Drive- Have- Love- Move-Travel- Driving- Having- Loving- Traveling-
Moving- University- Every- Evening- Live- Lover- Living- Heavy-
Heavier- Heaviest

AI= EI
Main- Mail- Mailer- Train- Trains- Trainer- Trainee- Pain- Faint- Paint-
Painter- Wait- Waiter- Waitress- Sail- Sails- Sailor- Training- Mailing-
Waiting- Sailing- Painting-

SHORT COMPOSITIONS
TRAVELING
This morning the air is fresh, and my family is ready to travel. At the Airport we will
take an Airplane that has good air conditioner

The air is fresh

The airport is big

The air conditioning is nice

THE ENERGY HOUSE

In my house the electrician is working with the engineer on the house electricity.
My house has an electrical problem, and all the electric things are on the electrical
box
SENTENCES
The electrician is working on the electricity house
The house electrical connections are on the electronic box
This is an electrical car

THE MOVIE

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In the movie the actor and the actress are performing good acts and the author of
the movie is happy with them

SENTENCES
The actor is acting
The actress is on the tv show
The actor and the actress are happy with their acts

IN THE CLASSROOM
In the classroom the teacher is teaching a lesson. The teachings the teachers
teach are important for the students. The students like the teachers and their
teachers.
SENTENCES
A teacher teaches lessons
Teachers teach good teachings
The teaching the teachers teach are important

AT CHURCH
At church the preaching preaches good preachings. The people like the preachings
preachers preach
SENTENCES
The preacher preaches
The preacher is preaching
The preaching the preacher preaches is a very good preaching

AT THE BEACH

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 It is a pleasure to be in front of the sea drinking a tea. The sea and the tea are
pleasure to be and drink
SENTENCES
Please bring me the tea to the sea
The sea is like a tea
The team needs to drink the tea at the beach

THE HOUSE
It is easy to clean the house with the cleaner. By the time, the cleaner ceases the
cleaning the house will be very clean
SENTENCES
Please clean the house
The cleaner is cleaning
Please cease cleaning that
It is easy to clean the house

THE FAMILY
A family is a father, a mother, and a brother. The father and the mother can be
happy, but the brother can be sad. For example: In that family, the father and the
mother are happy, but the brother is not happy
SENTENCES
This is the father
That is the mother
These are the brothers
Those are the mothers

FEELIINGS

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 I love my wife and I drive her every day to work. I move my car. My car is heavy.
When I move my heavy car to drive my wife, I have to go from where I live to
where she works
SENTENCES
I have to drive everyday
I live to love my wife
The lovers in the movie have to move

BUSINESS
The main mail is on the train with the mailer. The mailer on the train has a mail for the
waiter and the waitress
The waiter and the waitress are at the restaurant. They wait on people. The restaurant
where the waiter and the waitress work is by the sea and they have to wait for the sailor
to sail into the sea
SENTENCES
The train has the main mail
The mailer needs the mail main
The waiter waits for the mail
The sailor sails in the sea
Sailing in the sea is what the sailor does
SPORTS
The team has a trainer who trains the team every day. Sometimes when the trainer
trains the team the players feel pain and they faint. When they faint because of the
pain, the trainer calls the nurse and the nurse tells the trainer to cease training the
team
SENTENCES
The team faints
The team feels pain
The team waits

MY HAIR

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I need to try to buy a thing to dry my hair by tomorrow because I need to pay and
stay where I say. When I pray I cry, and people think that my cry is a play.
SENTENCES
I need to pay for the place Where I stay
I will stay where I say
I will buy food to stay

THE OFFICE
The secretary and the security man open the laboratory for the lady. The lady has
a party and the party is for a baby. The baby feels happy in the party with the lady
and the secretary and the security man is at the laboratory with a candy for the
baby and the lady
SENTENCES
The secretary is at the laboratory
The security man talks with the lady and the baby
The candy is for the baby
The happy baby wants a candy

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