Pronunciation – Page 3

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Pronunciation skills: Why do we need the phonemic chart?

In his latest article, ELT pronunciation expert Adrian Underhill looks at why we need to use the phonemic chart in our classrooms.

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Pronunciation skills: Integrating pronunciation into your daily class work

In his latest article, ELT pronunciation expert Adrian Underhill looks at the ways in which pronunciation can be integrated into your day-to-day classroom work

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Pronunciation skills: Loosening the ‘grip’ of L1 pronunciation

ELT Pronunciation expert Adrian Underhill looks at the emergence of the ‘L1 grip’ and how best to tackle it.

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Interactive phonemic chart: American English

Adrian Underhill's Interactive phonemic chart! This excellent teaching tool can be downloaded (see links below) and played full-screen and gives clear audio examples of the phoneme set for American English.

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Pronunciation skills: The chart

ELT Pronunciation expert Adrian Underhill introduces us to the phonemic chart and why it’s important to familiarize ourselves with sounds when teaching or learning a language.

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Pronunciation skills: The muscle buttons and vowels /iː/ or /uː/

In these two videos, Adrian Underhill explains the physicality of pronunciation and the use of ‘muscle buttons’ to help us vocalize sounds such as vowels /i:/ and /u:/. 

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Pronunciation skills: Accents and the L1 grip

Which accent should I teach with? This is a common question that Adrian Underhill answers in the video below as well as tackling the subject of the L1 grip and how to escape it!

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Interactive phonemic chart: British English

Adrian Underhill's Interactive phonemic chart! This excellent teaching tool can be downloaded (see links below) and played full-screen and gives clear audio examples of the English phoneme set.

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Pronunciation skills: Destruction as creativity

Jonathan Marks offers a set of pronunciation tasks, with notes for teachers, that focus on reading aloud and text chunking.

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Pronunciation skills: Glossaries

Jonathan Marks offers a helpful short glossary of terminology for teaching pronunciation: homophones, rhotic and rhythm.

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Pronunciation skills: How many syllables?

This lesson by Jonathan Marks focuses on plural nouns and 3rd person singular verbs which are spelt with the ending -es. It helps students to develop an awareness of when this ending represents an additional syllable (e.g. age / ages) and when it doesn't (e.g. behave / behaves).

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Pronunciation skills: what is it called?

Focus on pronouncing stress patterns in compound nouns.

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Pronunciation skills: Who does what?

Jonathan Marks offers a pronunciation activity, with a helpful key for teachers, that focuses on pronouncing stress in compound nouns.