Many teachers avoid teaching pronunciation because it seems difficult, or because they feel their own accent is ‘not good enough’. But what if we’ve got the wrong idea about the nature and purpose of pronunciation? Perhaps a different perspective...
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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, blog posts, ELT articles and information about our books. Hope you like it!
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All the words in this maze contain the letter T. Go from WRITER to BETTER crossing only words where the letter T sounds the same as in ‘writer’ IN YOUR ACCENT. You can see that 5 stones in the maze are shaded...
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Go from ZERO to HERO crossing only words or phrases with an R-sound in your accent (there are different paths for different accents). You can see that 6 stones in the maze are shaded. Try not to step on one of...
Watch the webinar here. In this free webinar, I’m talking about accent in ELT: what we need to know and why. I will also show how we can help learners to understand accent...
Annie has worked in ELT with great passion for the last 40 years, but her teaching career began even before that, in her home town of Liverpool. She qualified there as a teacher in 1976 and went on to teach history in secondary schools.
