English phonetics

La La Land - "A lovely night" scene

CONSONANT CLUSTERS

Here you are a link where you can practice consonant clusters:
https://canvas.instructure.com/courses/800352/pages/pronunciation-practice-material-for-consonant-clusters

Pronunciation ;)

NA NA NA

Dear Students,

Here you are a great song to practice the rhythm of English (weak and strong parts of the sentence). Sorry for any swear words or disgusting content, this is just for the sake of phonetis ;)

Enjoy!

Phonetic Link for Module 6 students

Hi there!

Please go to this link

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/pron/sounds/chart.shtml

There you can click and listen to the sounds of English. Hope it helps!

Enjoy

Click and pronounce

Dear Students,

You can download a pronuciation chart from this webpage:

http://www.macmillanenglish.com/methodology/phonetic-chart.htm

There is another one here:

http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/download/pron_chart/pron_chart.shtml

Enjoy!

PHONETICS BLOG

Dear students:

I've recently received this message from another EOI teacher inviting us to use her phonetics blog:

Hi Leticia;
I'm Ana López Pozo,a phonetics teacher trainer and an English teacher at an EOI.We did an on-line course together last year, remember?
I like your blog and would like to invite you to use mine, Alpozo phonetics blog http://allphonetics.blogspot.com/ with your students if you wish. The activities are all based on songs, and cover most sounds of the phonetic alphabet. Apart from different charts to practice sounds individually, you can also use the phonetic transciber, one of the tools I've recently inserted in the blog.
Bye for now,
Ana

I've added a link to Ana's blog under the section "Interesting Blogs" so that you can enter it and practice with all the exercises she's posted there.

I really think it can help you improve your pronunciation and understanding of the English language in an amusing way.

So, mates, have fun and see you soon!

Bus' buzz

Hi dear students!

At Maika's request, here you are a couple of links with extra practice for sounds /s/ and /z/:

http://www.inglesmundial.com/B7/pronunciation.htm

http://www.english-zone.com/convo/pron-s1.html

See you!

Playing with sounds

Dear students:

Click HEREto practice the sounds of English

See you!
Leticia

Burials in the Moon!

Hi everybody!

Here you are a BBC video about a new invention: moon burials. Do you know what a 'burial' is? Click here to find out.

This video is not related to what we are currently doing in class, but the point is that you can listen to both British and North American speakers of English, so I think it can be interesting for you...

There are 4 speakers: the commentator,Charles Chafer and two people in the street. Who speaks Britsh? who speaks American English? Give it a try!

Tongue Twisters. What's your favourite one?

Hi everybody:

Here you are the tongue twisters you created last Tuesday. You can listen to them just by clicking on the play button. If you want, you can say which tongue twister is your favourite one!

GROUP J

-Red team (sound /t/)

Tom the Teacher teaches Taichi in the train in the town on Tuesdays at teatime because he travels without tie all the time and he toils without totting.

-Green team (sound /l/)

Laura Lancelot lost her lorry in London at luch because she was lying in the lake.

-Blue team (sound /d/)

Donald the duck did the dinner in the dark dinging room during the day because the light is dead in the dirty kitchen.

- Yellow team (sound /p/)

Peter Pettigrew painted a picture with a purple pencil in the park previous April because he's a perfectly poor person.

GROUP L

- Red team (sound /k/)

Ken the King is cooking chicken in the kitchen at the weekend because the chicken kicked the kitten.

-Green team (sound /t/)

Tom the tiger teaches tennis on the top of the toy town tomorrow Tuesday because he told to Troy twice to take the tool.

-Blue team (sound /p/)

Peter Pettigrew painted a pink pig peach in a place called 'park' in the past because the painters were packing potatoes.

-Yellow team (sound /s/)

Sylvia the snake saw the sun in the sky on a Sunday in September because the sun was shining.

Listen and Repeat

Hi everybody:

Below you can find three recordings from English File.

In the first one you will hear English vowels. In the second one, diphthongs and, in the third, consonants.

Go to the Sound Bank of your text book to read the symbols while you listen and repeat.

(If you don't have the text book, you can read the symbols in the Pronunciation Chart I've posted below. It follows the same order ;) )

1. VOWELS


2.DIPHTHONGS


3.CONSONANTS

Pronunciation Chart

Hi everybody!

Here you are a pronunciation chart from the BBC. All you have to do is click on any symbol to hear it pronounced.

Go to the following link if you want to download and install it in your computer:
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/download/pron_chart/pron_chart.shtml

If you can't see the chart, go to the following link to download the plug in flash player:
http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash&promoid=BIOX