Pronunciation – Page 2
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Pronunciation activities: Part 2
This lesson in the series by Adrian Tennant focuses on the distinction between the two phonemes at the beginning of the words 'yet' and 'jet'.
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Pronunciation activities: Part 1
This lesson by Adrian Tennant focuses on the distinction between the long and short 'i' sound, marking the difference in words like 'ship' and 'sheep'.
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Pronunciation exercises: Starter/beginner
Pronunciation exercises for zero beginner and false beginner students.
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Pronunciation exercises: Pre-intermediate
A selection of pronunciation exercises for pre-intermediate students.
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Pronunciation skills with Adrian Underhill: Overcoming common pronunciation challenges
In the last article in this series, ELT pronunciation expert Adrian Underhill looks at how to overcome common pronunciation problems.
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Pronunciation activities: Part 10
Adrian Tennant offers a variety of activities designed to help students practise word stress.
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Pronunciation activities: Part 11
This lesson plan by Adrian Tennant focuses on the differences in word stress in nouns and verbs and gives a variety of practice activities for students.
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Pronunciation matters: Integrating pronunciation into your teaching
In this article, Adrian Tennant looks at when you should teach pronunciation and how you can integrate it into your lesson, with a number of practical ideas and activities given as inspiration.
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Pronunciation Matters: Prescriptive or descriptive?
The terms prescriptive and descriptive are well known with reference to the teaching of grammar. However, in this article they are used in regards to the teaching of pronunciation. Here, Adrian Tennant looks at a number of issues surrounding the ways in which pronunciation is dealt with in learning materials ...
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Pronunciation matters: Using the phonemic chart
This article looks at different ways of using the phonemic chart with your students. It presents reasons why it is useful for students to know the phonemic alphabet, and gives a few practical ideas to help teachers use the phonemic chart in their lessons.
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Pronunciation matters: Sound reasons for teaching pronunciation
Why is it important to teach pronunciation? What are some of the key areas of pronunciation? In this article, Adrian Tennant will be answering these questions as well as giving a few practical ideas to help teachers get started.
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Pronunciation skills: Long and short sounds /ɑː/ /ʌ/ and /ɒ/
Which sound do you make when you’re having a massage? And what is the noise of having a whole orange in your mouth? In this video, Adrian answers these unusual questions and uses mime to help demonstrate the physicality of each sound.
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Pronunciation skills: Monophthongs and consonants
In this video, Adrian provides a handy overview of the monophthong sounds and provides a brief guided tour of the consonant sounds, showing how each sound relates to its neighbour on the chart and how it is produced in the mouth.
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Pronunciation skills: Minimal pairs /θ/ and /ð/
In this video, Adrian looks at the minimal pairand and /θ/ and /ð/ and shows us how to make each sound in a simple and effective way while giving advice on how to gain control of the physicality needed to produce each sound.
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Pronunciation skills: The idiot sounds /ɜː/ and /ə/
Did you know that there is not one but two idiot sounds in the phonetic chart? In this video, pronunciation expert Adrian Underhill looks at the visibility and the physicality of these sounds, helping learners with the long vowel sound /ɜː/ and the most famous of all the phonemes, the schwa /ə/
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Pronunciation skills: Off the map sounds /ɔː/ /æ/ and /e/
How can you teach pronunciation without using any sounds? In this video, Adrian helps show us by using mime to introduce us to some ‘off the map’ sounds and demonstrates us how we can identify sounds in relations to their neighbours on the phonetic chart.
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