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  • WRITING AND SPEAKING: PRODUCTIVE SKILLS (At a glance on this page)
    • WRITING >
      • WRITING (PRACTICE AND ASSESSMENT)
      • TYPES OF WRITTEN TEXTS
    • SPEAKING >
      • ORAL PRACTICE
      • ORAL ASSESSMENT
      • PHONETICS AND PRONUNCIATION (production)
  • LISTENING AND READING: RECEPTIVE SKILLS (At a glance on this page)
    • LISTENING >
      • LISTENING ACTIVITIES
      • LISTENING BY LEVELS
      • PHONETICS AND PRONUNCIATION
      • SONGS
      • VIDEOS
    • READING >
      • READ OR LISTEN AND READ ALONG
      • READERS
  • INTEGRATED SKILLS
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PHONETICS AND PRONUNCIATION (Production)

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To get some advice on these click on the right

Basic words pronunciation

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Learn how to pronounce difficult words on http://www.manythings.org/audio/sentences/

HOW TO PRONOUNCE -ED

This is a good website which explains how to pronounce the past and past participles (-ed):
http://www.englishclub.com/pronunciation/-ed.htm
When you know how to pronounce each ending, practise here:
http://www.english-zone.com/convo/pron-ed1.html or just visit http://www.isabelperez.com/pastendings.htm or you can visit http://www.inglestotal.com/pronunciacion-de-la-ed-past-simple-regular-verb-pronunciation/ to practise regular and irregular verbs.

TONGUE TWISTERS

This is an activity we did for different levels.
Tongue twisters are very useful to pronounce different sounds. These two scenes from the film "Singing in the rain" serve as an example of their difficulty.
"Singing in the rain"- Diction coach.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3OkXi5osfU&feature=related
"Singing in the rain" - Moses Supposes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&v=tciT9bmCMq8&NR=1
or watch the videos and get the activity on upper-intermediate classroom activities

Download the activity

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To practise tongue twisters visit the following British Council page: http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/tongue-twisters
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