http://lc.ust.hk/~sac/advice/english/pronunciation/P3.htm CLUSTERS Select Details Title: Pronunciation Advice Sheet A Units/pgs: P5: Recognising Phonetic Symbols Type: Web Accent: UK Features:.This will help you identify the different sounds that make up clusters. 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. Title: Pronunciation Advice Sheet Units/pgs: P5: Recognising Phonetic Symbols A Type: Sheet / Audio CD Accent: UK Features: This will help you identify the different sounds that make up clusters. 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. Title: Pronunciation Lessons Units/pgs: Lesson 6 – Consonants and Consonant Clusters A Type: Web Accent: UK Features: This site gives practice with clusters in final initial and medial position. To hear the sounds files, click on the “play” symbol. Title: IPA Chart Units/pgs: N/A A Type: Web Accent: US Features: This will help you identify the different sounds that make up clusters. 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 Units/pgs: N/A A Type: Web Accent: N/A Features: If you want to practice writing clusters using IPA sound symbols, you can use this special typewriter. Follow the instructions on the page. Title: English in the Workplace – Final Consonants Units/pgs: N/A A Type: Web Accent: N/A Features: This quiz will help you to identify final consonants and consonant clusters correctly. To listen to the audio files click on the “?” or on the underlined words. Title: Interchange Arcade – WHAT DO YOU HEAR? – Consonant A Clusters Location http://lc.ust.hk/~sac/advice/e nglish/Spring%20201112/Pronunciation/P5R.pdf HKUST LANGUAGE COMMONS Orientation Area: Advice Sheets Shelf (Pronunciation) http://lc.ust.hk/%7Ematerial/ pl/u6.htm http://elc.polyu.edu.hk/cill/ip a.htm http://elc.polyu.edu.hk/cill/ip atypewriter.htm http://elc.polyu.edu.hk/eiw2/ main.htm#htm#03#25 http://www2.cambridge.org/i nterchangearcade/launch.do? © Copyright 2012 Center for Language Education of HKUST. All rights reserved. P3-clusters1 http://lc.ust.hk/~sac/advice/english/pronunciation/P3.htm A Units/pgs: Type: Web Accent: US Features: In this game you listen to a word containing a consonant cluster and then select the word you hear from a choice of two. Click the sound symbol to hear the word, and click “next” on the top righthand side to move to the next word. Title: Cluster Buster Units/pgs: Type: Web Accent: N/A Features: In this game, try to identify the word in the green square in the middle. Think of the spelling, and then click on the cluster of sounds that the word starts with. For example if the picture is a blue square, click on “bl”. The aim is to click on the initial cluster before you get hit by the asteroid. This game can be quite fun, but it can also be difficult to figure out what the picture in the green square actually is (of course this is true for native speakers too!) activityID=284&level=2&un it=4&type=Cup_word_up&s tage=1 http://www.ictgames.com/clu ster.html © Copyright 2012 Center for Language Education of HKUST. All rights reserved. P3-clusters2