English course Key English Conversation and Pronunciation (Part 1)
By jasonUK
Languages
English
Level
Intermediate
Lessons
20
School
None
My English for Conversation and Pronunciation courses are designed for students who want to express themselves more fluently and clearly in spoken English. Topics for developing conversational English skills include current affairs, education, attitudes and beliefs, relationships and global problems. Intergated use of role plays and debates. The pronunciation part of the course looks at individual sounds, word and sentence stress and intonation; thus to reduce your accent and make you speak more like an English person. The objective of this programme is to speak more confidently and to lose your fear of making mistakes.
Teachers:

1. Advice Letters
Be your own Agony Aunt! Solve problems !   Be your own Agony Aunt! Solve problems !   less
2. Calories
A discussion lesson on the impact of calories on a persons...   more A discussion lesson on the impact of calories on a persons diet.   less
3. Describing People
Useful Vocabulary for Everyday Situations: What words...   more Useful Vocabulary for Everyday Situations: What words would you use to describe your parents, friends, spouse, colleagues? What words would you use to describe your parents, friends, spouse, colleagues?   less
4. Environmentally Friendly Shopping
There are many things that we can do to save the...   more There are many things that we can do to save the environment.  Whether you live in London or Beijing, you can help to clean up your local environment and work toward improving the global environment. In this lesson we look at easy things we can do to help the environment   less
5. Extreme Sports
Conversation on Extreme sports ! This lesson also looks at...   more Conversation on Extreme sports ! This lesson also looks at how we can best use the modal verb `would`.   less
6. Features of Connected Speech
The stress timing of English - the need to fit those...   more The stress timing of English - the need to fit those unstressed syllables into the time between the beats - means that the unstressed syllables will be subject to reduction. For example, try saying the following line slowly, pronouncing each word carefully and then quickly, as you would normally. RED and GREEN and BLUE What happens to and ?   less
7. Hetronyms
A heteronym is a word having a different pronunciation and...   more A heteronym is a word having a different pronunciation and meaning as another word, but the same spelling. Sometimes the stress is on a different syllable and sometimes the stress remains the same, but only the pronunciation of the vowel changes.   less
8. How to pronounce correctly the plural `S`
Final ‘S’ is especially frequent in English. Many words...   more Final ‘S’ is especially frequent in English. Many words simply end in ‘S’ and many others add ‘S’ in the plural; also, a final ‘S’ attaches to third-person singular verbs (‘he dances’). However, international speakers often neglect to add these necessary word-endings—partly a grammar problem and partly a pronunciation problem. Furthermore, they are typically unaware that there are two different pronunciations of final ‘S’ in English—‘soft’ and ‘hard’—and that there is a ‘rule’ governing their use.   less
9. How to pronounce correctly the suffix `ED`
International speakers of English know that the regular...   more International speakers of English know that the regular method of making verbs past tense is to add ‘ed,’ but they are often not aware that, in a way similar to final ‘S,’ the ‘ed’ suffix is pronounced in different ways: ‘hard’ (like ‘D’) and ‘soft’ (like ‘T’), and also as a full syllable (like the name ‘Ed’).   less
10. Long vs. Short vowel
The length of a vowel is very important. We have long...   more The length of a vowel is very important. We have long vowels and short vowels in English. For example, ee is long and ih is short. If someone says the long ee vowel, but they say it short, as in ih, it acutally sounds like the wrong word. For example, the word 'deep.' Deep is with the long vowel. Dip, another word with the short vowel.   less
11. Minimal Pairs
Minimal pairs are pairs of words that have one phonemic...   more Minimal pairs are pairs of words that have one phonemic change between them. For example: "let" and "lit". Using these pairs to help students recognize the minor differences between English muted vowel sounds can greatly help not only pronunciation skills, but also comprehension.   less
12. Money Money Money
Are people more interested now in money now than anything...   more Are people more interested now in money now than anything else?   less
13. Occupations
Describe different jobs and their responsibilties.   Describe different jobs and their responsibilties.   less
14. Problems and Problems
Discuss some given problems and suggest solutions!   Discuss some given problems and suggest solutions!   less
15. Pronunciation Blends
In this lesson we will practice the pronunciation features...   more In this lesson we will practice the pronunciation features of letter blends or consonant clusters, distinguishing between the various combinations of two and three sounds, practicing accurate production.   less
16. Silent Letters
Can you name a few English words with silent letters? Do...   more Can you name a few English words with silent letters? Do you have silent letters in your native alphabet? Here are some examples. Let’s study some tips that make it easier for us to spot a silent letter.   less
17. Sleep and Dream
Describe and interpret your dreams!   Describe and interpret your dreams!   less
18. Stress and Intonation
In English, one syllable in every word is pronounced louder...   more In English, one syllable in every word is pronounced louder than the others. This is called stress (accent tonique). Generally speaking, the stress is on the first syllable of the word. However, there are many exceptions to this rule so you must memorize the stress for each new word that you learn.   less
19. Tounge Twisters
Tongue twisters are very useful in all stages of teaching a...   more Tongue twisters are very useful in all stages of teaching a foreign language because of their shortness, capacity and full sense. A tongue-twister is a sequence of words that is difficult to pronounce quickly and correctly, but tongue twister uttering considerably helps to improve speech and pronunciation of difficult sounds. So, tongue twisters can be used as perfect pronunciation exercises to check up how the pronunciation rules were learnt, whether this or that sound is pronounced correctly. Moreover it is a gymnastics for lips and tongue, and when translating and learning them by heart you can enrich your vocabulary.   less
20. Whats your personality?
Discussion questions and vocabulary on different types of...   more Discussion questions and vocabulary on different types of personalities.   less

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