Talks by Mark Hancock

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Practical Pronunciation Teaching

Event date: 
Saturday, October 26, 2019 - 14:00
Venue: 
English UK South West Conference 2019
Location: 
Millfield School, Butleigh Road, Street, Somerset BA16 0YD
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In this practical session, I present simple tips on how to give more weight to pronunciation by exploiting the book more thoroughly and supplementing where necessary. The Pasta rap activity is here. The handout, slides and game can be downloaded below.

Mazes, Maps, Rhymes & Raps: Pronunciation Made Practical

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Friday, October 11, 2019 - 11:30
Venue: 
International House Milan Annual Conference
Location: 
Centro Congressi FAST
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Thanks for coming to this talk! The empty worksheet templates and slides from the talk are downloadable at the bottom of this page. The worksheets and audio for the raps are here: The Brothers and Pasta.

Pronunciation Teaching Post-ELF

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Saturday, October 5, 2019 - 11:00
Venue: 
SATEFL 40th Anniversary Celebration
Location: 
The Albert Hall, Dumbarton Road, Stirling, Scotland
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What is to become of pronunciation teachng in these post-ELF times? Thanks for coming to this talk. The slides can be downloaded below. The pronunciation errors diagnosis game can be found here.

Pronunciation that Works

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Saturday, May 11, 2019 - 10:30
Venue: 
BELTA Day 2019
Location: 
Erasmushogeschool, Brussels
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In this workshop, we will consider what counts as success in pronunciation, especially in the light of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF). We will then try out some activities which I have found to be successful over 30 years of writing pronunciation materials, and discuss how these can be used in a way which enhances the learner’s communicative success.

Pronunciation: muscle, mind, meaning, memory

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Event date: 
Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - 14:45
Venue: 
IATEFL Annual Conference & Exhibition – Liverpool, April 2019
Location: 
Room 3a, Echo Arena, Liverpool
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Liverpool: Pronunciation is part language and part skill, part productive and part receptive. This means that we must vary the way we teach it. In this talk, I will explain how we can approach pronunciation teaching from four angles, labelled muscle, mind, meaning and memory. I will demonstrate activities for each of these from the ELTons-award winning books PronPack 1-4.

Pronunciation: muscle, mind, meaning, memory

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Saturday, March 30, 2019 - 16:00
Venue: 
International Publishers Exhibition
Location: 
Divani Caravel Hotel, as. Alexandrou Ave. 2 Athens, Greece
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ATHENS: Find the slides in the PDF download below! See more about PronPack here. See video of Mark teaching a pronunciation class here. Also follow these links for some of the materials used in the talk:

Pronunciation: muscle, mind, meaning, memory

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Event date: 
Sunday, March 17, 2019 - 16:30
Venue: 
International Publishers Exhibition
Location: 
The MET Hotel, 48, 26th Oktovriou Str Thessaloniki, Greece
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THESSALONIKI: Pronunciation crosses two domains: it is part language - like grammar or vocabulary, and part skill - like speaking or listening. This makes pronunciation teaching very interesting, and great fun too. Come and see how! Download the slides and audio below!

Pronunciation: muscle, mind, meaning, memory

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Event date: 
Saturday, February 23, 2019 - 09:30
Venue: 
English UK Scotland
Location: 
Mackenzie School of English 71 Constitution Street Edinburgh EH6 7AF
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English UK Scotland Conference

The slides for this presentation, as well as some Do-It-Yourself templates, can be downloaded below. See here for more about the PronPack books. Pronunciation straddles two domains: it is part language - like grammar or vocabulary, and part skill - like speaking or listening.

Mazes, maps, rhymes and raps

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Event date: 
Thursday, February 7, 2019 - 10:00
Venue: 
Cultura Inglesa Teacher's Colloquium
Location: 
Online
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Download the materials for the IP Athens workshop at the bottom of the page. Find lots more materials here. Find a video of Mark teaching with these materials here.

Pronunciation: muscle, mind, meaning, memory

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Event date: 
Saturday, February 2, 2019 - 12:45
Venue: 
APAC
Location: 
Barcelona
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Download slides and other materials at the bottom of this page! Pronunciation crosses two domains: it is part language - like grammar or vocabulary, and part skill - like speaking or listening. This unique position makes pronunciation teaching interestingly varied – and potentially very enjoyable too.

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