Here's the phonemic chart for vowels and consonants. Click on the jpegs below for either the colour or black and white versions. Look here for an explanation of the vowels rationale. More...
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Mark Hancock and Annie McDonald are ELT authors, speakers and teachers. On this site, you'll find free classroom materials and downloads on pronunciation, listening skills and other topics, conference reviews, ELT articles and information about our books. Hope you like it!
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On these pages, we share articles we've written, plus conference reviews and other stuff in our blog including Mark's Pronunciation Blog. The upcoming and archived talks section is packed with info and handouts. You'll also find published materials in our books and we're busy making ELT lesson materials for use in the classroom.
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This is an authentic listening activity based on a video recording of a 3-minute lecture. Swiss scientist Bechara Saab talks about the possibility of a colony on Mars. This is a sample lesson from...
Think you heard it all? Think again! Expert listeners don't hear it all. They hear what's needed and disregard the 'noise'. But L2 listeners have to learn what counts as 'noise' in the target language. It’s not the ‘difficult’ words that...
None of us throw our class into a listening unprepared, do we? It would be unfair - after all, in real life, we're normally listening with certain expectations. But often in ELT, our pre-listening activities are limited to a bit of discussion of...
Do you use the phonemic script in teaching? If you say, "It depends", what does it depend on? What are the pros and cons of the IPA? What kind of students does it help, and how does it help them? These are some of the issues broached in this...
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