PHONETICS
Section outline
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Compilation of resources to help you improve your pronunciation

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Compilation of all the vowel, diphthongs, and consonant sounds in English
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Here you will find the description of how to produce the different vowel sound in R. P English
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Self-correction activity to check you know how to distinguish long and short vowel sounds in English
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By clicking on this link you will get extra practice on how to pronounce the long sound /a:/ in British English
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By clicking on this link you will get extra practice on how to pronounce the long sound /a:/ in British English
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Spoken activity to help students distinguish both vowel sounds
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By clicking on this link you will watch a video which is going to help you distinguish between these two vowel sounds.
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Watch this video to learn how to distinguish these two vowel sounds. Remember your lips and tongue position
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These three sounds are commonly confused. Mostly the difference between /e/ and /I/ is often not understood or misprounced
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Watch this video to learn about the difference between these sounds.
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Follow the link to learn how to pronounce the schwa sound and listen to some podcasts
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Picture with useful info about the spelling of schwa sound
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Watch this video to help you pronounce and distinguish the sound
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Picture with some useful info about spelling of long schwa
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Watch the video to distinguish both sounds.
Here you have the minimal pairs mentioned in the video:
full_fool; soot (Hollin)_suit; hood_who´d ; shooed (past of shoo) (espantar,largarse)luke_look;pull_pool
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This video will help you compare and revise ALL THE TWELVE VOWELS SOUNDS in English.
Test yourself by repeating after Emma!
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Learn the pronunciation of this diphthong and its spelling in English.
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watch this video to revise the pronunciation of this diphthong.
Possible spellings: ai, ea,a (care, share),e (there)
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In this file you will find a thorough explanation about how to pronounce the final -s sound and some practice at the end of it.
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Go through this maze. Get from one corner to the other by connecting words containing the same sound either /s/ or /z/.
There are two possible routes
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Go over this activity to practise the possible pronunciation of -S/ -ES (/s/; /z/; /IZ/
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Go over these two files to revise and reinforce the pronunciation of the final -s in English (remember it is applied to plural nouns, possessives and present simple 3rd person singular)
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Choose BART, TED or DAVID depending on the pronunciation of the verbs next to them
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Listen to Emma explaining the th sound
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Go through these exercises to distinguish between / n/-/ŋ/
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In this podcast you will check the difference between these confusing vowel sounds
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Here you have a set of sentences to revise the vowel sounds, -s /-ed endings and the "th" sounds


