Kindness Words & Sounds
Vocabulary, stress and sincere intonation
A ready-to-teach B1+ topic lesson on kindness that combines vocabulary, pronunciation and a simple brain-training idea.
Students share the kindest thing anyone has done for them, then explore the kind word family and useful collocations (a random act of kindness, out of the kindness of your heart). A short reading, Kindness at Work, puts the vocabulary in context before a gap-fill. The pronunciation focus is sounding kind: word stress, connected speech and how intonation makes the same words sound sincere or sarcastic. Students sort kind and unkind language, practise catch it, check it, change it, choose a kindness challenge and finish with an exit ticket and further reading from research on kindness.
What's inside
- 11 colourful slides to project, with an answer key for the gap-fill
- Word family, collocations and a short reading text
- Stress and sincerity exercise: sincere or sarcastic?
- Kind or not kind sort, brain-training speaking task, kindness challenge and exit ticket
Level: B1+ · Time: 45–60 minutes · Prep: none. Project and teach; you model the sounds yourself, so no audio is needed.
Please note: this is a slides-only lesson, without a separate printable worksheet. It is also part of the Pronunciation Toolkit bundle of 16 lessons.
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