Phonetics

Sounds As you know, the English alphabet is far from being a regular and consistent system of representing all the sounds in English. For instance, think of the letter group ough. How many different way can it sound like: And as you can see, "ough" can produce a myriad of sounds seemingly randomly. Unfortunately concensus is the last thing linguists have between them and consequently several systems exist. The following are some of the signs of the American phonetic system. Formally, /t/ becomes [t] after [s], and becomes [th] everywhere else. Consonants: Some important points: V+ denoted "voiced", and V- is "voiceless". Vowels: Even though they look like English, don't be tempted to pronounce the symbols as if they were English letters. When you say a vowel, you unconsciously change your tongue and lip into an unique configuration characterized by three attributes: Unrounded vs rounded. Related: Phonics • english

Phonetics: Beats and Rhythm –[Multimedia-English] One of the things that makes English difficult to understand for foreign students is its particular rhythm. Many languages are syllabic, that means that every syllable takes the same amount of time to pronounce. In some languages stressed syllables take longer than unstressed syllables, but still, the pronunciation unit is the syllable. English is different, we don't care about syllables, we don't even care about words, it's all about beats (sound units). But not all words are affected in the same way. 1- Content words the words with meaning (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs) 2- Grammatical words words with no meaning, but they build the grammatical structure of the sentence (prepositions, articles, verb particles, pronouns, etc.) Every sound unit (beat) has a content word, which is the most important part of it. Here's an example: Hi, What were you doing when I rang an hour ago? Content words hi, doing, rang, hourStructure words HI / what were you DOing / when i RANG / an HOUR ago

English Pronunciation We use Cisco wireless in all our buildings for convenient and immediate online access. You will need the following for the files below: English Pronunciation/Listening We use the popular Can8 VirtuaLab for all our digital language lab programs. Unit One: TH, as in THINK, BATHROOM, and TEETH. Watch this QuickTime movie on the word 'Thought' to see how to correctly make the 'TH' sound (894k). Unit Two: TH, as in THOSE, MOTHER and SOOTHE. Watch this QuickTime movie on the word 'Thy' to see how to correctly make the 'TH' sound (725k). Unit Three: L and R, as in COLLECT, CORRECT, LAMB, and RAM. Minimal Pairs (228k) In this exercise, you will hear pairs of words that are the same except for one sound. Unit FOUR :i and I, as in SEEN and SIN. Minimal Pairs (228k) In this exercise, you will hear pairs of words that are the same except for one sound. Unit FIVE: s, sh, and ch. Minimal Pairs In this exercise, you will hear pairs of words that are the same except for one sound. Unit SEVEN Our Address at OUC:

EFLshorts | Short stories for EFL learners Adrian’s Pron Chart Blog | Practical discovery of English pronunciation Learn English Free Archives | CultureAlley's Blog 1. Watch English movies/serials: Watching English movies or cartoons with subtitles (dialogues are shown in English) can help us in learning English. We can start with watching cartoons like, ‘Tom & Jerry’, ‘Tin Tin’, ‘Looney Tunes’ or T.V. serials like, ‘Koffee with Karan’ or follow YouTube channels like, look who’s talking with Niranjan Iyenger. Watching English movies or serials is an engaging way to learn because the content is interesting, however they give limited exposure to grammar. They are better if you want to practice English learning or if you are looking to build your vocabulary. 2. 3. 4. However, CultureAlley’s English App is built specifically for Hindi speakers – with grammar explanations in Hindi. 5.

TDU 4: Reading for understanding: 2 Helping students to understand a text - Secondary English - TESS-India - TESSI-SE Now watch the video below about reading for understanding. If you are unable to watch the video, it shows a Class IX teacher introducing her class to a story by P.G. Wodehouse called ‘Keeping it from Harold’ (CBSE, 2009), which you can read in Resource 2. You may also find it useful to read the video’s transcript. As you watch the video, decide what you would do to help students understand the text by considering the following questions: How would you engage students’ interest? Then compare your ideas with the teacher. Narrator This video shows the teacher using different techniques to help her students understand a text they are reading for the first time. Teacher We are now going to read a chapter ‘Keeping it from Harold’. Students Cricket and football both. Alright. Ma’am Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson. Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson. Yeah, so you can discuss among each other or you can just ask each other, who is your favourite WWE wrestler? Student Who is your favourite wrestler? Alright, okay.

Welcome to Jolly Learning Teaching English online Ever thought about teaching English online? Sylvia Guinan , online English teacher and current winner of the British Council TeachingEnglish blog award , walks us through the opportunities and pitfalls. There are many different things to consider when it comes to online teaching. The good news is that online teaching opens up new levels of creativity and opportunity for you as a teacher. In a way, it drives you to surpass yourself and focus more on best practice as well as innovation. Technology basics Many freelance teachers teach through Skype. Resources and content creation As for resources, the following sites have wonderful materials if you don’t feel like re-inventing the wheel. Beyond that you may wish to supplement your basic course offerings, specialise for specific purposes or simply follow your own instincts and inspiration. The importance of personal learning networks I can’t stress strongly enough how important my personal learning network has been to me. Building rapport

Online phonetics resources Page maintained by Jennifer Smith ( Last revision and link check: August 2016 This is a list of web sites that might be useful in an introductory phonetics course for classroom demos or homework assignments; most of these sites include audio, images, or interactive material. The list began in 2000 with some of the phonetics resources compiled by Karen Steffen Chung (see LINGUIST List posts 11.1812, 11.1869, and 11.1964). It has grown to include other sites that I have found via LINGUIST List posts, web searches, and word-of-mouth — students in my Linguistic Phonetics and Introduction to Language courses have discovered some fantastic links. Many thanks to the people and organizations who designed the sites that appear on this list, and to Jaye Padgett for suggesting that I investigate what phonetics resources might be available online. I update this page about once a year to fix or remove broken links. ) for links to add. Contents (2) The larynx, phonation, and VOT (4) Basic acoustics