Phonetics: Rhythm and Stress

During this course, we had some lessons focusing on Phonetics too. It is well known that English stress and rhythm are not easy tasks for Spanish speakers. We had our chance with the song "Brighton in the Rain", by Jonathan Dykes and Robert Campbell. This a very popular song which is very often used to practise the Present Perfect tense, but we did our best to say it with a proper English intonation.


https://englishvillage.eu/2013/05/17/brighton-in-the-rain-lve-never-been-to-athens-present-perfect-experience/

It would be lovely to make an umbrella for a rainy day. Let's try this activity with 5th or 6th grade students;

Here’s what you need:

• shaving cream
• food coloring
• baking sheet
• butter knife
• card stock paper
• scissors
• glue
• black paper
• umbrella template

It’s super simple to create this swirled look. To start, spray shaving cream onto a baking sheet. Then drop food coloring around the sheet. Swirl around using a butter knife (or something similar).

Next, place a piece of card stock paper on top of the shaving cream and press down until the whole paper is coated. Then pull it off the shaving cream and let it sit for a few minutes.
After about 30 minutes, the paper will be dry and ready to make into an umbrella!


You can make the umbrella however you’d like. You can use an umbrella template (click here). Print the umbrella template, cut it out, and trace it onto the shaving cream paper. After tracing, cut out the umbrella and glue it onto a black piece of paper. Cut out raindrops from the blue shaving cream paper. You do not need to use a template with the raindrops.

Source: https://teachingmama.org/rainy-day-umbrella-craft/