Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción

English Pedagogy Programme

Elision Lesson Plan

Class: Lesson #1 Time of lesson: Length of Student-Teacher’s
09:10 lesson: name:
1 Hour (50 Alberto Barboa
minutes) M. Teresa Reyes

Main Aim:
At the end of the lesson students will be able to understand and apply elision in their speech.

Exponent(s): “…………………………………………..” Assumed Knowledge:

It’s going to rain today isn't it? /ɪts ˈgɒnə reɪn təˈdeɪ, ˈɪznt ɪt?/ - Basic/Intermediate level of English
I could go for some fish 'n' chips. /aɪ kəd gəʊ fə səm fɪʃ ɛn ʧɪps/ - Basic knowledge of Phonetics and
IPA.
- Understanding the existence of
Aspects of Connected Speech..

Target Language: Contracted form of auxiliary verbs, strong and weak forms, syncope and aphesis

VOCABULARY: Full form, Contracted form.

GRAMMAR: Elision, Syncope, Aphesis.

Anticipated Problems …..and Solutions Aids

Problem: Students lacking concepts of the Assumed Knowledge
Solution: Try to help the students by approaching the prior concepts in a simpler manner Copybook
Pencils
Computer or Cellphone
Internet Connection
Access to the materials in Ev@
Stages Procedure
I am going to do…
Warm-up activity: T is going to
LEAD-IN
say some utterances that have
elision in them.
e.g. 'I don't know' /I duno/ ,
/kamra/ for camera, and 'rock n’
roll”. Then, SS will have to
answer if they notice something
unusual in the pronunciation of
those utterances.
Instructions Skill Time Patterns of
I am going to say … (min) Interaction
T-Ss;Ss-Ss;etc
Good morning class, in this Listening 5 minutes T-SS
class you are going to learn or Speaking SS-T
rather “Gonna” learn about T-SS
Elision, this is something that
happens often and mostly in
spoken English, like we don't
take the time to utter each
word in the utterance “I don’t
know” but rather say “I
dunno” or when we say
camera we often miss the /ə/ in
the second syllable, another
example is when talking about
music genres we say “Rock n’
Roll” instead of “Rock and
Roll”.
Do you notice the differences?
 For the presentation, T will I mentioned the concept of Listening 20 minutes T-SS
PRESENTATION
explain why we said those Elision, Elision is the omission Speaking
utterances and a brief
of one or more sounds in an
explanation of what elision isutterance, this could be either
and why it occurs. vowels or consonants. When a
sound gets deleted we also use
After that, T will show a PPT the word “elided”.
with the main functions of
elision, the common cases and I will now show you a ppt
tips to recognize when this going over the main concepts
phenomena occurs. of Elision and how it works.

In the PPT there will be drilling The reason Elision in spoken

exercises of Elision such as English happens is due to
English being a stress timed
Activity 1 Elision of Vowels: language. Because we don’t
Utter the words and find what focus on each syllable when
sound is elided: speaking we tend to skip some
a) Vegetable /ˈvɛdʒtəbəl/ sounds that have less
b) Natural /ˈnætʃrəl/ prominence. Another reason is
c) Temperature /ˈtɛmpərtʃər/ due to some consonant clusters
being hard to pronounce, for
Activity 2: Drilling, repeat example in when we utter
twice, once with the full form windmill we usually omit the
and then apply Elision and utter plosive /d/ and utter
the Elided form, transcriptions “winmill”, we call this
of the Elided form are provided instances the loss of /t/ and /d/,
a) It’s going to rain today but Elision also happens on
isn't it? /ɪts ˈgɒnə reɪn Vowels, there’s Syncope which
təˈdeɪ, ˈɪznt ɪt?/ is when an unstressed vowel
b) I could go for some fish before a stressed syllable gets
'n' chips. /aɪ kəd gəʊ fə omitted such as the /ə/ sound
səm fɪʃ ɛn ʧɪps/ in several another example is
the concept of aphesis, or the
loss of an unstressed vowel or

SS will hear a recording with
PRACTICE
elision examples. Later, they will
work in pairs and they’ll write
down what words are present in
the audio. If they have any
doubts about the content, T will
be answering their questions.
Activity 1:
a) Listen and Identify for
Elision Examples
b) Write down the examples
that you listened to
c) With your partner try to
identify what types of
Elision were present
(Syncope, Aphesis, Loss
of /t/ and /d/, etc)
syllable, in some dialects or in
some contexts people instead
of saying “America” say
“Merica”
I will now show you some
exercises that relate to Elision
and some that have to do with
Elision in Spoken and informal
English.
I will now show you a Listening 20 minutes T-SS
recording of two people Writing SS-SS
talking, after listening to them, SS-T
you’ll have to get in pairs,
listen to it again but this time
you’ll have to write down each
example of Elision that you
notice, after that I’ll give you a
couple of minutes to talk with
your partner about what types
of elision each of you notices
and then compare your
answers. After that you guys
will tell me your findings. If
you have any doubts let me
know.
 T will utter some words that
PRODUCTION
contain contracted forms and
some full forms. SS will drill the
elided forms and T are going to
give feedback when necessary.
Also, they will praise the SS if
they did a good job in producing
and recognizing elided forms.
After that exercise T will give
some time for the students to
come up with their own
examples of Elision each with its
type of Elision, the examples
will be uttered after some time
Activities:
a) Listen and then repeat the
examples.
b) Recognize the Elision in the
examples
c) Come up with examples of
Elision with their type and utter
them to the classroom
I will now utter some Listening 25 minutes T-SS
examples of Elision on both Speaking SS-T
contracted and full forms, you T-SS
will then repeat after me. You
have to write down and
recognize the contracted form
to the full form.
Now you’ll have to make your
own examples, I’ll give you 5
minutes to come up with them,
then some of you will have to
utter those examples and
provide the type of Elision. If
you have any doubts about it
let me know.

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