Work in pairs. Read aloud the following words from the text. Write the number of syllables in each word. (mountains, grandfather, tender, disturbed, caterpillar, Himalayan, performed, intention, slope, newspaper, favourite)
mountains - 2 syllables (moun-tains), grandfather - 3 syllables (grand-fa-ther), tender - 2 syllables (ten-der), disturbed - 2 syllables (dis-turbed), caterpillar - 4 syllables (cat-er-pil-lar), Himalayan - 4 syllables (Hi-ma-la-yan), performed - 2 syllables (per-formed), intention - 3 syllables (in-ten-tion), slope - 1 syllable, newspaper - 3 syllables (news-pa-per), favourite - 3 syllables (fa-vour-ite)
Explanation
This exercise helps students practice pronunciation by identifying syllables. Each syllable represents one 'beat' in the word. Students can clap out the beats to verify the syllable count.