Lesson overview:
This pronunciation lesson helps students hear and produce the three common -ed endings: /t/, /d/ and /ɪd/. Using a dinner-party story, listening tasks, pair work, and a competitive storytelling game, students notice pronunciation patterns and practise regular past-tense verbs in connected speech.
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
- distinguish between the /t/, /d/ and /ɪd/ pronunciations of -ed;
- pronounce regular past-tense verbs more accurately;
- use correctly pronounced -ed verbs while telling short stories.
Lead-in:
Students start by talking about cooking for friends, what they prepared, whether the meal went well, and what can go wrong when hosting dinner. This creates a natural past-tense context before students focus more closely on how regular past verbs are pronounced.
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