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Pronunciation with Wlodek Barbosa
On Wednesday, July 8th, we had our last pronunciation session this (academic) year. We had a look at what we've covered in the 42 meetings since last August (see the partial list below)... Phew... A lot :-) I collected remarks about which pronouncing problems are particularly difficult and worth looking at next year. At the top of the list were: (i) vowel digraphs (sequences of two vowel letters), (ii) juncture (the linking of words in connected speech), (iii) function words, such as prepositions, pronouns, articles, (iv) intonation (sentence melody). We'll have enought to do next year, but for now... it's holiday time!!! Have a great time, and do come back in world afterwards. Seek me out at the beginning of September.
Pronunciation help with Wlodek Barbosa: summary of 2008/2009 themes
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(games with objects, like dominoes, not listed here; see Osnagroup notecard)
1. Br/Am accent differences, LFC/EIL, accent vs dialect
2. what is hard in pronunciation? needs analysis. stress placement in various languages.
3. silent letters, function words
4. word stress, Spelling Christian names
5. "Love is all around" - pronunciation tasks; Christmas Eve cuisine
6. Limerics activity, heterographic rhymes
7. tongue-twisters (warmer), reading a passage from Grimm bros tales
8. hard nuts notecard
9. 60 mispronunciations, /-s@r/ spellings
10. recap of past activities and notecards, finding object names in five phon categories
11. advantages of SL; notecard with errors discussed
12. 30 diff sentences, 30 easy sentences
13. devoicing story
14. sentences with velar nasal, call my bluff: which word did I mispronounce
15. sentences with aspiration, scavenger hunt for object name words with 9 phonetic criteria
16. [-ine] words notecard
17. phonetic 20 Qs
18. debriefing on last session: aspiration, word-stress, the [a] vowel; last-sound game
19. the [-ine] notecard, part 2: hard words, funny sentences; phonetic t-shirt game
20. phonetic t-shirt game (2nd round), phonetic dice game: explanation and testing
21. [-ism] notecard home
22. t-shirts advanced version (transitions)
23. Di_V notecard, 60 mispronunciations activity: dictation -- in pairs
24. homophones/homographs notecard
25. transcription, notecards; reading 30 easy sentences transcribed
Pronunciation help with Wlodek Barbosa: summary of 2008/2009 themes
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(games with objects, like dominoes, not listed here; see Osnagroup notecard)
1. Br/Am accent differences, LFC/EIL, accent vs dialect
2. what is hard in pronunciation? needs analysis. stress placement in various languages.
3. silent letters, function words
4. word stress, Spelling Christian names
5. "Love is all around" - pronunciation tasks; Christmas Eve cuisine
6. Limerics activity, heterographic rhymes
7. tongue-twisters (warmer), reading a passage from Grimm bros tales
8. hard nuts notecard
9. 60 mispronunciations, /-s@r/ spellings
10. recap of past activities and notecards, finding object names in five phon categories
11. advantages of SL; notecard with errors discussed
12. 30 diff sentences, 30 easy sentences
13. devoicing story
14. sentences with velar nasal, call my bluff: which word did I mispronounce
15. sentences with aspiration, scavenger hunt for object name words with 9 phonetic criteria
16. [-ine] words notecard
17. phonetic 20 Qs
18. debriefing on last session: aspiration, word-stress, the [a] vowel; last-sound game
19. the [-ine] notecard, part 2: hard words, funny sentences; phonetic t-shirt game
20. phonetic t-shirt game (2nd round), phonetic dice game: explanation and testing
21. [-ism] notecard home
22. t-shirts advanced version (transitions)
23. Di_V notecard, 60 mispronunciations activity: dictation -- in pairs
24. homophones/homographs notecard
25. transcription, notecards; reading 30 easy sentences transcribed
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