Tuesday - October 22nd, 2024
I have made 50 of these Pair Squares (minimal pairs, squared) for different phoneme contrasts in English (download the PDFs in two files below!). One person says one of the phrases, the others have to identify which one they think they heard.
Word Recognition for Listeners, alongside Connected Speech for Listeners, is part of the Pronunciation for Listening series.
PronPack is an award-winning collection resource books to help teachers focus on English pronunciation in class.
PronPack 6: Pronunciation of English for Brazilian Learners provides materials for 18 lessons focusing on common difficulties faced by Portuguese-speaking learners.
Sunday - August 30th, 2020
The English phoneme /w/ presents difficulties for learners from a wide range of language backgrounds, but not always for the same reason. Some pronounce the /w/ like a /v/ so that west becomes vest. Others interpret it as a vowel sound, so that woman becomes ooman.
PronPack 5: Pronunciation of English for Spanish Speakers provides materials for 18 lessons focusing on common difficulties faced by Spanish-speaking learners.
Saturday - September 7th, 2019
This chant is made up of five rhyming couplets, and it has an unusual density of TH-sounds (the hard TH in 'earth' and the soft TH in 'brother'. The hard TH is called ‘theta’, and for convenience, I’ll use that name to refer to both sounds.
Wednesday - August 28th, 2019
The image above is the answer key to a surprisingly tricky puzzle which requires learners to keep a clear distinction in mind between the spelling of words and the way they are pronounced.
Wednesday - August 14th, 2019
Project the image and do any or all of these activities:
Friday - November 16th, 2018
This is a free sample activity from PronPack.
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