Pronunciation course overview

7 sessions + 1 (overview) + 3 individual feedback 'goes'

PRONUNCIATION course overview

• Aspiration of

initial voiceless plosives, e.g. /pʰ et/, /kʰi:p/

• Word stress

• Intonation

• Connected speech

(elision: /ˌfɪʃ en ˈtʃɪps/)

• Vowels:short and long i as in ship vs sheep

• Consonant /f/

• Nuclear stress, e.g. I didn’t BUY the car. I RENTED it. vs. I didn’t buy the car, but HE did.

• Vowel quality,

e.g. /rʌn/ vs. /ræn/

• Often mis-

pronounced words

• Weak forms,

e.g. strong /hæv/, weak /həv/, weak /əv/

• Strong and weak

forms of prepositions.

• Consonants

/θ/ vs. /ð/

• Homographs.
• Homophones.

• Sentence stress. Questions.

• Vowel /ɒ/

• Foreign words

pronunciation.

• Silent letters.

• Features of

connected speech

• Consonants /v/ vs.

/w/ e.g. /vet/ vs. /wet/

• /ɜː/ like in first

• Word endings,

e.g. /d/,/t/,/id/

• Consonants /r/,

/ŋ/, /h/.

• Vowels:short and

long u

• Br. vs. Am.

pronunciation

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English Language graduate

TED talks translator

Multicultural context: Polish, Croatian, Brazilian, Thai students/collegues

English teacher/presenter/trainer/English command level evaluator

Based in western Ukraine