Alphabet – audio-lingual method

Alphabet mind map

When I started teaching the English alphabet I was really sure that it will be fun and easy to achieve. My students had no problem learning the alphabet itself, but when they should have used it, they were making a lot of mistakes. I have tried everything. We tried using finger alphabet, some information gap exercises where spelling was necessary and so on. However, all these activities had very poor results. Seeing my failure I decided to create an audio-lingual computer based activity. It is a simple drill but I believe that those who will pass the test will be able to spell correctly.

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Alphabet – introduction


As I write above learning the alphabet from A to Z was no problem. The students were greatly helped by several alphabet songs and games. The best ones came from British Council pages on alphabet. We really enjoyed these.
To help my students more I have created the following mind map. I hope you will find it useful too:

Alphabet mind map

Alphabet – audio-lingual quiz


I tried to find some recordings with spelling but I was shocked that I managed to find only two of them in different textbooks. So I had to created some myself. I asked a native speaker to spell 25 different English words and these I put into the following quiz. You should listen and then write the words you hear. It is not easy and the passing score is really high. Will you succeed?
At the end there is a game for you. Both the quiz and the game are in HTML5 so they will play on any mobile device too.

Alphabet – Audio-lingual quiz

Alphabet – Treasure hunt

My students love this game. Even more so, if I bring a reward for the winners.

Start the game and display the grid. Call the students to say a pair of letters and then click on the appropriate square. If they do not hit the treasure blue square appears. Call the students randomly. The one who finds the treasure gets the reward.

There are two slides with the grid so, you can play two games.

Alphabet – share


If you do not have an internet connection you might find the following files useful. You can upload the files to your own site or use them off-line.

Alphabet (Web)

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10 Comments

  1. Nafi
    Great.
    05/12/2014 at 7:15 pm
  2. maha
    useful
    05/12/2014 at 7:38 pm
  3. Jill
    Teaching the letter names won't help you to read English. W is "double you" and it never appears in words making this sound. Try phonics, the sound it makes is much more useful. I recommend jolly phonics or read write inc. made for English kids but fun and not complicateded unlike the English language ;)
    05/12/2014 at 8:07 pm
  4. Jill
    *complicated damn auto correct and wine!
    05/12/2014 at 8:08 pm
  5. Vachiraya Thavillvang
    to learn more English
    06/12/2014 at 12:17 am
  6. noorjhan
    Good for teaching phonics.
    06/12/2014 at 12:27 am
  7. Zdenda
    Thanks for your recommendation. However, me and many other teachers have to teach what is prescribed by the textbooks and spelling is one of them.
    06/12/2014 at 7:26 am
  8. Anonymous
    tks. I see that reality of teaching helps you have a very good sumary in chart. So it is cool for primary teachers to copy and use it in their teaching class. tks again :)
    07/12/2014 at 12:50 am
  9. sami
    wonderful
    07/12/2014 at 12:12 pm
  10. evelyn
    Great! Thank you so much!
    15/05/2020 at 11:56 pm

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