Pronunciation

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= = =Pronunciation of difficult words = Josefa Garcia's students have prepared this list of difficult words for Spanish speakers. If you click on O, you'll be able to hear the pronunciation.Awsome! =Pronunciation of -ed endings = =media type="youtube" key="X95t46xhHw0" width="420" height="315" = =Double contractions =

Pronouncing contractions is hard enough, so double contractions can be tricky for English learners. This BBC lesson is great to practice the third conditional. Click here. =A tricky pronunciation poem =

If you can pronounce correctly every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world. Shared by Laura Arjona. http://www.thepoke.co.uk/2016/02/17/english-pronunciation-poem

=Read and listen = Listen to articles in The Guardian and read them at the same time. Click here (B2 Level) Read and listen to BBC News reports. Click here (B1 Level)

=Write and listen = ** Write a text and listen to it in English! **  = Pronunciation of irregular verbs = Practice the pronunciation of irregular verbs. Click [|here]

= Talking dictionary = Listen to the words in English

=Phonetic symbols = **Watch a [|video] about the phonetic symbols which represent the English sounds. You can also find a chart of the different phonetic symbols. Clicking on each symbol will take you to another page where you can watch a video about that sound.** **Practice the pronunciation of the [|English vowel sounds]** **Practice the pronunciation of the [|English diphthongs]** **Practice the pronunciation of the English consonants [|here] and [|here]** = Minimum pairs = **In this session you'll practice pairs of sounds which are difficult to distiguish for Spanish speakers.** **Exercises to distinguish [|pairs of sounds]which can be easily mixed up** **Distinguish the sounds /I/ and /i:/ Watch this [|video] and [|this other video]and do these** [|**exercises**] **Distinguish the sounds /ʊ/ and /uː/ Watch this [|video] and [|this other video] and do these** [|**exercises**] **Distinguish the sounds /æ / and / ʌ / Watch this [|video] and [|this other video]** **and do these [|exercises] (they include the sound /e/ which is pronounced like the Spanish "e")** **Distinguish the sounds /ɔː/ and /əʊ/ Watch this [|video] and [|this other video]and do these** [|**exercises**] **Distinguish the sounds /ɒ/ and /əʊ/ Watch this [|video] and [|this other video]and do these** [|**exercises**] **Distinguish the sounds /tʃ/ and /ʃ/ Watch this [|video] and** [|**this other video**] **Distinguish the sounds /s/ and /z/ Watch this [|video] and [|this other video]** = Stress = ** Play this game to practice the ** [|**stress in words**] = Sounds = ** Practice the pronunciation of -ed endings click [|here] ** ** To ** **practice the pronunciation of the most common sound in English the schwa** **/ə/ click [|here]**

= Quizzes = ** How much do you know? Do the following quizzes to find out: ** ** Quiz one: click [|here] ** ** Quiz two: click [|here] ** ** Quiz three: click [|here] ** ** Quiz four: click [|here] ** ** Quiz five: click [|here] **

= Radio programmes =
 * Listen to these bbc radio programmes and get some tips about how to improve your pronunciation. You can download the tapescripts of the programmes. **
 * [|Programme 1]: sounds and letters, week sounds (schwa), consonant to vowel linking, vowel to vowel linking. **
 * [|Programme 2]: sounds and letters, linking r, connected speech, sounds twinning. **
 * [|Programme 3]: sounds change (assimilation) **