Since I teach in Korea, the kids often have trouble learning to distinguish between the /r/ and /l/ sounds. My r/l card set started out as just a motivational prod: two pictures, one of rice, one of lice. If a student told me he had "lice" for lunch, I'd get out the picture of the lice and ask, "Are you sure? Lice? Bugs in your hair?" Boy, did they learn quickly to make the /r/ sound! Nobody wants to say he ate lice for lunch!
From that grew the simple r/l flash cards with pairs of /r/ and /l/ words. For each word I made a picture card and a word card.
rake/lake, rice/lice, rap/lap, ramp/lamp, right/light, rock/lock, rip/lip, etc.
Later I added blends:
braid/blade, grass/glass, crown/clown, crock/clock, blue/brew, fleas/freeze, frame/flame, frying/flying, etc.
The first game I'd use them for is "passing game", in which I'd deal out two cards to each student. On the count of three, everybody had to pass a card to the left. If you got a match, you put the pair down and got new cards. The student with the most pairs won.
The next game was Matching Game or Concentration. The student must pronounce the word and seek its matching picture or word.
The final game is Go Fish, in which students have to try to pronounce the tricky words correctly and make an auditory distinction between the /r/ and /l/ sounds when asking or asked, "Do you have blade?"
Another simple game that beginners enjoy is just having them line up and one by one you show the student a card. If he pronounces it correctly, he gets to keep the card. If not, I pronounce it correctly and send him to the end of the line and I mix the card back into the pack. The game goes on until all the cards are gone.
These cards motivate the students to learn /r/ and /l/, and make learning fun.
R/L cards
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