Sounds of English: Vowels and Consonants

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SOUNDS OF ENGLISH: VOWELS and CONSONANTS

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Title: Pronunciation Advice Sheet

Units/pgs: P5: Recognising Phonetic Symbols

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Features: Shows letters of the alphabet and their IPA sound symbol.

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Also shows commonly used words and how they are represented using

IPA sound symbols. You can choose to listen to a female or a male voice.

Title: Pronunciation Advice Sheet

Units/pgs: P5: Recognising Phonetic Symbols

Type: Sheet / Cassette / CD-ROM

Accent: UK

Features: Shows letters of the alphabet and their IPA sound symbol.

Also shows commonly used words and how they are represented using

IPA sound symbols. You can choose to listen to a female or a male voice.

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Title: Pronouncing English Phonetic Symbols

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Type: Book + Cassette

Accent: UK

Features: Presents all the vowel sounds and consonant sounds in

English. Shows the sounds in words, in different positions in words and in sentences.

Title: Accent English

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Accent: US

Features: Introduces the sounds of American English and provides practice for listening and speaking in the form of ‘prompters’. Each prompter focuses on one sound and provides examples of that sound used in individual words and sentences.

Title: Sounds English

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Accent: UK

Features: Choose which sounds you want to work on by looking at the

‘Sound List’. Each unit has a variety of tasks designed to train your ability to hear different sounds clearly and practise saying the sounds in words and sentences. There’s also a tip on how the sound is seen in the spelling of some common words.

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Title: Pronunciation Tasks

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Features: You’ll find a key to phonetic symbols on page vi. Part 1 deals with Vowels and Part 2 deals with Consonants. Each unit gives practise for listening and speaking. You check your answers in the

Teacher’s book.

Title: Pronunciation Pairs

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Accent: US

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Choose the sound you wish to work on from the ‘Contents’ page. Study the pictures on pages 2-3 for an understanding of how sounds are formed using your mouth, tongue and muscles. Follow the exercises in the units to discover the differences between similar sounds and to practise your ability to hear and say the sounds. Check the

Teacher’s Manual for extra information on each unit.

Title: Ship or Sheep?

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Accent: UK

Features:

Choose the sound you wish to work on from the ‘Contents’ page. Study the pictures on pages 1-3 for an understanding of how sounds are formed using your mouth and tongue. Follow the exercises in the units to discover the differences between similar sounds and to practise your ability to hear and say the sounds.


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Title: Headway Pre-Intermediate Pronunciation

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Accent: UK

Features: The first section of each unit focuses on specific sounds.

Choose the sounds you wish to work on from the ‘Contents’ page.

Follow the exercises and check your answers in the back of the book.

Title: Headway Intermediate Pronunciation

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Title: Headway Upper-Intermediate Pronunciation

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Title: Better English Pronunciation

Units/pgs: Units 3-5


Accent: UK

Features: This book gives detailed explanations about how the different sounds are formed. There are also a number of useful exercises to help you hear and say the sounds correctly.

Title: Sound Advantage

Units/pgs: 15, 18-60, 60-78, 187-202


Accent: US

Features:

Look through the ‘Contents’ pages to find exercises on

Vowel sounds and Consonant sounds. There are transcripts of the listening exercises at the back of the book.

Title: Test your Pronunciation

Units/pgs: Units 1-2, 4-8, 19, 36, 54-56,

Type: Book + Audio CD

Accent: UK

Features: Page vi gives an overview of all the vowel and consonant sounds. You can use this book and audio CD to test yourself on different sounds. There are brief explanations and tips at the bottom of each short test. Answers are in the back of the book.

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Title: English Pronunciation in Use

Units/pgs: Units 1-20, D1-D6 12

Type: Book + Cassette + Audio CD

Accent: UK

Features: Section D provides an introduction to IPA phonemic symbols, a pronunciation test and a guide for speakers of specific languages. This is useful to start with if you wish to tailor your learning to problems you have with specific sounds. Section A introduces letters and sounds using a variety of interesting exercises. Answers can be found in the Key at the back of the book.

Title: Pronunciation Exercises in English

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Accent: US

Features: Each unit focuses on one particular sound. Follow the exercises.

Title: Pronunciation Workbook

Units/pgs: ALL


Accent: Canadian

Features: This material is great fun if you like tongue twisters. Each unit focuses on a sound or pair of sounds and provides a variety of interesting listening and speaking exercises. Check your answers in the

Pronunciation Answer Key

Title: Sounds

Units/pgs: ALL

Type: CD-ROM

Accent: US/UK

Features: Covers both UK and US English pronunciation of consonant and vowel sounds. Provides exercises to recognise and say English sounds and words which contain sounds. You can record your voice and check your pronunciation against the original. You can also watch animations which show you how to move your lips, mouth and jaw when you say a particular sound.

Title: Pronunciation Power 1

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Type: CD-ROM

Accent: US

Features: Uses graphics and video to show how 52 US English sounds are made. Also allows you to see clearly how the tongue, lips, jaw and vocal cords move to make different sounds. Provides listening exercises featuring single words and sentences for each of the 52 sounds. Allows you to listen and test your listening as well as record your own voice to compare with the one on the computer. Provides a picture dictionary with audio of all the words used on CD-ROM and 4 different games so that you can practice what you’ve learnt from the lessons, exercises and dictionary in a fun and relaxed way.

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Title: Pronunciation Power 2

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Type: CD-ROM

Accent: US

Features: Uses graphics and video to show how 52 US English sounds are made. You can see clearly how the tongue, lips, jaw and vocal cords move to make different sounds. Provides listening exercises featuring single words and sentences for each of the 52 sounds. You can listen and test your listening as well as record your own voice to compare with the one on the computer. Presents sentences highlighting a

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Title: Pronunciation Lessons

Units/pgs: Further Practice: 1-19

Type: Web

Accent: UK

Features: This site gives you a little practice on vowel and consonant sounds.

Title: IPA Chart

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Type: Web

Accent: US

Features: Here you can see the sounds of English as they are represented using IPA. You can also click on the sound and listen to how it is pronounced.

Title: IPA Typewriter

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Features: If you want to practice writing anything using IPA sound symbols, you can use this special typewriter. Follow the instructions on the page. http://lc.ust.hk~material/pl/in dex2.html

http://elc.polyu.edu.hk/cill/ip a.htm

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Features: Look at the list under ‘Materials’ and choose the exercises you feel are most beneficial for you.

Title: Vowel Game

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Features: Use this fun game to check your recognition of the IPA sound symbols.

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Title: Make-a-word Game

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Type: Web

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Features: Use this fun game to check your recognition of the IPA sound symbols.

Title: Consonants

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Type: Web

Accent: UK

Features: Click on one of the sounds to learn more about how it is made and what it sounds like.

Title: Vowels

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Type: Web

Accent: UK

Features: Click on one of the sounds to learn more about how it is made and what it sounds like.

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