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Pronunciation skills: Long and short sounds /ɑː/ /ʌ/ and /ɒ/

Which sound do you make when you’re having a massage? And what is the noise of having a whole orange in your mouth? In this video, Adrian answers these unusual questions and uses mime to help demonstrate the physicality of each sound.

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Pronunciation skills: Minimal pairs /θ/ and /ð/

In this video, Adrian looks at the minimal pairand and /θ/ and /ð/ and shows us how to make each sound in a simple and effective way while giving advice on how to gain control of the physicality needed to produce each sound.

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Pronunciation skills: Monophthongs and consonants

In this video, Adrian provides a handy overview of the monophthong sounds and provides a brief guided tour of the consonant sounds, showing how each sound relates to its neighbour on the chart and how it is produced in the mouth.

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Pronunciation skills: The idiot sounds /ɜː/ and /ə/

Did you know that there is not one but two idiot sounds in the phonetic chart? In this video, pronunciation expert Adrian Underhill looks at the visibility and the physicality of these sounds, helping learners with the long vowel sound /ɜː/ and the most famous of all the phonemes, the schwa /ə/

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Pronunciation skills: Off the map sounds /ɔː/ /æ/ and /e/

How can you teach pronunciation without using any sounds? In this video, Adrian helps show us by using mime to introduce us to some ‘off the map’ sounds and demonstrates us how we can identify sounds in relations to their neighbours on the phonetic chart.

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Words from other languages: Scandinavian languages

Tim Bowen makes sure you don’t go berserk with his handy guide to words from Scandinavian languages.

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Theme-based expressions: music

It’s time to make a song and dance about Your English with these musically themed expressions.

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Your English: Idioms: jump

Jump the queue and improve your English with this latest set of idioms from Tim Bowen.

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Your English: Phrasal verbs: get (4)

Don’t let phrasal verbs get you down, as Tim Bowen is here to help with his latest Your English round-up.

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Teaching Business English: Prioritizing vocabulary

 

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Teaching Business English

In this new series of articles, award-winning trainer Ed Pegg answers your Business English questions.

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Lizzie Pinard

Lizzie Pinard, author of cultural series Compass, tells us about her ELT interests, winning an ELTon and offers her advice on becoming an ELT author.

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Words from other languages: Hindustani

Become an English language pundit with these useful English words which originate from Hindustani.

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Your English: Idioms: joke

All joking apart, Tim Bowen has another set of excellent idioms in his latest Your English.

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Theme-based expressions: house and home

Tim Bowen rolls out the red carpet with these latest theme-based expressions about house and home.

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Your English: Phrasal verbs: get (3)

Make sure you don’t get behind with your phrasal verbs with this latest instalment of Your English.

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Pronunciation skills: Diphthongs – Sliding and putting sounds together

In his latest article, ELT pronunciation expert Adrian Underhill looks at diphthongs and how sliding and putting sounds together can benefit both your teaching and your students’ learning.

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Tech Tasks: Graded readers

In this article, Tom Walton looks at how graded readers can be used with technology to improve reading and writing skills.

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Teaching EAP: Literature: Shakespeare (Part 3)

Dr Chris Lima provides her final five top tips for teaching Shakespeare to both language proficient speakers and language learners alike, in the third part of this series.

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First steps into …the ‘Four Cs’

Communication, creativity, collaboration and critical thinking. Daniel Barber introduces the ‘super skills’ that 21st century students can’t do without.