Level: post beginner to intermediate

• Pick a paragraph or two from a previous unit of the course book. Prepare to stutter on certain sounds you students find hard because they are absent from their L1. If you are working with Italians prepare to stutter on initial h and on sm and sn etc….. If you are working with Thai students then falter on consonant clusters like straight and ble as in terrible
• Give the students your stuttering dictation.
• Allow them to turn to the coursebook and correct any mistakes they have made.
• Ask a few extrovert students to read the passsage back to you stuttering where you did, and thus pronouncing the sounds they normally find hard.

  Variation: if you want to focus attention on the pronunciation of a vowel, then stammer when these come up.

  Note: this is not a technique to use if you have a stutterer in the class.
  Some Brits may find the use of a speech defect distasteful.
  This is very much a part local island culture and not all cultures have these feelings.