Pronunciation made practical
Welcome to PronPack.com, the support hub for teachers using the pronunciation activities in PronPack 1-4 by Mark Hancock, author of best selling pronunciation books Pronunciation Games and English Pronunciation in Use. PronPack is a set of four ELT resource books to help teachers focus on English pronunciation in class.
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Excellent resource “This is the best pronunciation book I’ve seen. The way the book is laid out really makes the phonemic sound system easy to understand both for teachers and language learners. The activities are also excellent. I highly recommend this and the other books in the series.” Danyah.A. *****on iBooks
eBook
Portable and personal, PronPack 1-4 eBooks are available on Kobo and iBooks. The fixed-layout ePubs feature integrated audio files to support the clear easy-to-follow pronunciation activities in each book.
Paperback
Want to browse through a book? Get your hands on printed copies of PronPack 1-4 from Amazon or at the BEBC bookshop. Why not get copies of PronPack 1-4 for your school staffroom or resource centre.
PronPack 1: Pronunciation Workouts are extended drills focusing on specific areas of English pronunciation. Think of them like the scales and other exercises which pianists use to improve their fingering technique. But in the case of pronunciation, it’s the vocal articulators which are getting trained – the tongue, lips, jaw and vocal chords.
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PronPack 2: Pronunciation Puzzles are challenging game-like activities which are fun to do in pairs or small groups but are equally effective for individual students. They include such puzzle types as mazes, sudoku, word searches and crosswords.
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Pronpack 3: Pronunciation Pairworks are information-gap communication activities for students to do in pairs or small groups. Success in each activity depends upon the students accuracy in producing and understanding the target pronunciation feature.
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PronPack 4: Pronunciation Poems are rhymes, chants, limericks, raps and song lyrics all written specifically to contain multiple examples of the target pronunciation features. The activities usually begin with an exercise completing or correcting the text and culminate in practising saying or chanting the text out loud.
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Audio files, student worksheets, PronPack Posters and more… Downloads to accompany PronPack 1-4 can be accessed in Resources.
In my previous post, I promised to investigate possible implications a post-ELF perspective for pronunciation teaching, and in this post we will consider the question of what features of phonology we should focus on. Let me begin with an analogy. If you think of a car, you can probably divide its features into essential and …
In my last post, article 2 in this series, I suggested that pronunciation teaching post-ELF must distinguish productive and receptive competences, and these will be asymmetrical. In an English-as-a-lingua-franca speech community, we will pronounce locally and understand globally. The accent or range of accents we can produce will be much smaller than the range of …
Continue reading “Post-ELF 3: A Hierarchy of Pronunciation Skills”
In my first post, article 1 in this series , I suggested that we must take account of the ELF premise – namely, that English is now used as a global lingua franca – when we are thinking about the goals of pronunciation teaching. One broad implication of this premise is suggested by the prism …
Mark’s approach in both teaching and writing ELT materials is to engage the learner and inspire their intrinsic interest in the content and in the process of the lesson. This is driven by his belief that teaching and learning a language can and should be an enjoyable experience.