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Teaching Business English: Low-level learners

In this article, Ed Pegg gives advice on how to adapt Business English classes to meet the needs of low-level learners.

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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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Teaching Business English: Being direct

In this article, Ed Pegg looks at the issue of how to deal with directness in your Business English classes.

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Pronunciation skills: Consonants – consciously rediscovering the ON and OFF voice buttons

In his latest article, ELT pronunciation expert Adrian Underhill looks at consonants and how consciously rediscoving the ON and OFF voice buttons can benefit both your teaching and your students’ learning.

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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: 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: 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: 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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Teaching Business English: Prioritizing vocabulary

 

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Pronunciation skills: Diphthongs – Sliding and putting sounds together

In his latest article, ELT pronunciation expert Adrian Underhill looks at diphthongs and how sliding and putting sounds together can benefit both your teaching and your students’ learning.

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Pronunciation skills: Monophthongs: Using mime, gesture and inner imaging

In his latest article, ELT pronunciation expert Adrian Underhill looks at monophthongs and how mime, gesture and inner imaging can benefit both your teaching and your students’ learning.

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Pronunciation skills: Why do we need the phonemic chart?

In his latest article, ELT pronunciation expert Adrian Underhill looks at why we need to use the phonemic chart in our classrooms.

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Approaches used in Compass

In this article, Lizzie Pinard explains the theory behind the teaching approaches used in Compass and offers advice on how to use them effectively.

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Welcome to Compass

Lizzie Pinard introduces a series of cultural lessons for adults at an upper intermediate level. This article provides information about the series and guidance on how to use the teacher’s notes.

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Pronunciation skills: Integrating pronunciation into your daily class work

In his latest article, ELT pronunciation expert Adrian Underhill looks at the ways in which pronunciation can be integrated into your day-to-day classroom work

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Pronunciation skills: Loosening the ‘grip’ of L1 pronunciation

ELT Pronunciation expert Adrian Underhill looks at the emergence of the ‘L1 grip’ and how best to tackle it.

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Assessment matters: Designing your own tests

Adrian Tennant explores some of the issues behind designing your own tests and gives some practical examples of how to go about it.

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Pronunciation skills: The chart

ELT Pronunciation expert Adrian Underhill introduces us to the phonemic chart and why it’s important to familiarize ourselves with sounds when teaching or learning a language.

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Pronunciation skills: The muscle buttons and vowels /iː/ or /uː/

In these two videos, Adrian Underhill explains the physicality of pronunciation and the use of ‘muscle buttons’ to help us vocalize sounds such as vowels /i:/ and /u:/.