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Mark Hancock

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I got my first teaching job in 1984, working at a large boy's secondary school in El Obeid, Sudan. This experience made it very clear to me that there's a lot more to teaching English than just being able to speak the language!

Mark's spelling maze 'ow'

Wednesday - January 19th, 2022
By: 
Mark Hancock
Mark's spelling maze 'ow' - hancockmcdonald.com/materials/marks-spelling-maze-ow
A. Where now? Moscow! B. Loads of snow? Moscow! Which rhymes for you – A or B? For me, it’s B, but for many American speakers it’s A. Ok, it’s not earth-shattering news, but the question is the tip of an iceberg when it comes to the pronunciation of the spelling OW.

Mark's spelling maze 'ou'

Wednesday - January 19th, 2022
By: 
Mark Hancock
Mark's spelling maze 'ou' - hancockmcdonald.com/materials/marks-spelling-maze-ou
You have to get from house to out only stepping on stones with that same vowel sound. Trouble is, all of the words contain the treacherous vowel digraph OU, which has many other pronunciations apart from the 'out' vowel. So it's a phonic awareness game!

Mark's spelling mazes 'i'

Wednesday - January 19th, 2022
By: 
Mark Hancock
Mark's spelling mazes 'i' - hancockmcdonald.com/materials/marks-spelling-mazes-i
This maze focuses on the single letter i, and how it's pronounced. Short vowel usually, but not when it's in a vowel digraph, a 'magic e', and 'r' and a few other oddities. Note that the 'magic e' rule doesn't work in the case of 'give', for some reason.

Mark's spelling maze 'ea'

Wednesday - January 19th, 2022
By: 
Mark Hancock
Mark's spelling maze 'ea' - hancockmcdonald.com/materials/marks-spelling-maze-ea
This maze focuses on the vowel digraph 'ea'. Usuailly, this represents the /i:/ sound, as in 'teach', but there are also plenty of exceptions which often trip learners up, like 'pear'!

Say it to hear it: pronunciation to benefit listening skills

Speaker: 
Mark Hancock
Event date: 
Saturday, March 5, 2022 - 16:00
Venue: 
TESOL Spain
Location: 
Online
Website: 
Tesol Spain Convention 2022
Extra info: 
Plus downloads
Say it to hear it: pronunciation to benefit listening skills - hancockmcdonald.com/talks/say-it-hear-it-pronunciation-benefit-listening-skills-0

We often think of pronunciation in terms of productive skills, but it’s equally important for receptive ones. Indeed, some aspects of pronunciation learning are primarily for the benefit of listening – connected speech in particular.

  • Pronunciation

Say it to hear it: pronunciation to benefit listening skills

Speaker: 
Mark Hancock
Event date: 
Thursday, May 19, 2022 (All day)
Venue: 
IATEFL Annual Conference
Location: 
Belfast
Website: 
IATEFL Belfast
Extra info: 
Plus downloads
Say it to hear it: pronunciation to benefit listening skills - hancockmcdonald.com/talks/say-it-hear-it-pronunciation-benefit-listening-skills
We often think of pronunciation in terms of productive skills, but it’s equally important for receptive ones. Indeed, some aspects of pronunciation learning are primarily for the benefit of listening – connected speech in particular.

Mark's spelling maze 'a'

Friday - January 7th, 2022
By: 
Mark Hancock
Spelling Mazes - hancockmcdonald.com/materials/spelling-mazes
The vowel sound in FAT is usually spelt with the single vowel letter ‘a’. Sadly, the opposite is not true: sometimes a single letter ‘a’ may be pronounced as a different vowel sound.

Hancock & Veigga Pronunciation Course for Teachers

Speaker: 
Mark Hancock
Event date: 
Sunday, January 9, 2022 - 17:00 to Sunday, February 20, 2022 - 18:00
Venue: 
Online via Zoom
Location: 
International
Website: 
Pron4Teachers
Extra info: 
Plus downloads
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The course has been created by teacher, trainer and ELT community activist Taylor Veigga, alongside veteran ELT author and pronunciation specialist Mark Hancock. The flipped approach of the course combines access to an online platform of videos and resources which participants may access at any time, plus weekly live one-hour sessions with the tutors via video-link.
  • Pronunciation

Pronunciation Booster Course

Speaker: 
Mark Hancock
Event date: 
Saturday, January 8, 2022 - 02:30 to Saturday, February 12, 2022 - 16:00
Venue: 
BA English House
Location: 
Buenos Aires / Online
Website: 
II Pronunciation Booster
Extra info: 
Plus downloads
Pronunciation Booster Course - hancockmcdonald.com/talks/pronunciation-booster-course
This course is for teachers of English to Spanish-speaking learners. It is administered from Argentina but open internationally.
  • Pronunciation

Pronunciation Refresher Masterclass

Speaker: 
Mark Hancock
Event date: 
Wednesday, January 26, 2022 - 10:00
Venue: 
IATEFL short courses
Location: 
Online
Website: 
Iatefl
Extra info: 
Plus downloads
Pronunciation Refresher Masterclass - hancockmcdonald.com/talks/pronunciation-refresher-masterclass

In this class, we will address three big questions in pronunciation teaching:
A. Why are we teaching it? We will consider how the needs of learners very according to context, and how this affects what we teach. We will differentiate pronunciation for productive and for receptive purposes.

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