Just a quick idea for using Kahoot! here. I found I was using it for the same purposes – grammar meaning/form checking, gap fills, consolidation at end of lesson, etc. I wanted to branch out. Turns out it works well for reviewing word stress too. Here are a couple of screen shots from our food-related word ‘stress check’ the other day…

The good things about using Kahoot! for this were…

• the students repeat the word (sometimes a lot) to check the stress
• it turns out that it was a good way to highlight the use of epenthesis among Thai learners (see my post last week). Adding the decoy of 3 syllables for ‘spicy’ was a good way to do this
• about the above – students genuinely wanted to clarify why they were wrong – they actually cared about pronunciation! Cool…
• it mixes things up for the students/for me as we were getting bored with these same old ideas
• it took like under 5 minutes to make (12 words) and could be reused/tweaked and reused

That was it. Give it a go if you haven’t already 🙂

Categories: Lesson Ideas, pronunciation

Tags: elt, Kahoot, pronunciation, pronunciation activity, teaching teens, tefl, word stress