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Why not use the activities on LearnEnglish Kids for listening practice with your young learners?

Pronunciation work has traditionally taken a secondary role in language teaching to work on grammar and more recently lexis.

Live storytelling is a spontaneous creative process which fires the imagination. The listener experiences and participates in the story creatively. If the storyteller allows, the listener can have a direct influence on the story as it unfolds.

This is the second of Michael Swan's articles for TeachingEnglish, in which he looks at the role of texts in the learning process.

I often see the Sound Foundations chart (you can see it below) in classrooms, and teachers using it to bring pronunciation into the central arena of language work.

The point I want to make is that pronunciation teaching has been neglected and that we have all lost out through this. 

Here are some ideas for practising speaking in class with young learners.

Introducing and practising vocabulary in class can be done in a variety of enjoyable and motivating ways. It’s also important for learners to effectively record vocabulary, as well as to recycle vocabulary as much as possible.