Materials and equipment

Three black paper strips and three red paper strips for yourself and one black and one red strip for each tutor
Your instructions for how to pronounce words in Shona
Flip chart and markers

Preparation

Read the information above on how to pronounce Shona.
Practise the Shona Total Physical Response activity before the tutor session.
Decide whether you want to add one of the optional components to the Total Physical Response activity to extend the tutors’ experience. Add another five minutes to the session time to accommodate this.

STEP-BY-STEP PROCESS

1. Tell tutors that they will be participating in a listening activity called Total Physical Response. Give a definition, either your own or the one on the Listening List handout. Make sure they know that Total Physical Response is usually an activity for beginner ESL learners only. Ask that all questions be held until after the demonstration.
2. First component: Listening
   • Set the context. Signal the group to be silent and to listen by putting a finger to your lips and saying “shhhhh.”
   • Hold up a red piece of paper and say “pepa.” Hold it up both horizontally and vertically to make the point that you’re using the word for paper rather than for a particular direction.
   • If tutors repeat, discourage them by shaking your head and indicating that they are to listen.
   • Hold up another red piece of paper and say “pepa.”
   • Hold up a black piece of paper and say “pepa.”
   • Continue to hold up individual black and red pieces of paper and say “pepa.”
3. Second component: Substitution (Listening)
   • Hold up a black piece of paper and say “pepa demá.”
   • Hold up another black piece of paper and say “pepa demá.”
   • Repeat.
   • Hold up a red piece of paper and say “pepa dzwukú.”
   • Hold up another red piece of paper and say “pepa dzwukú.”
   • Repeat.