Misunderstandings are going to happen, and not only involving people who are learning the language. This example could easily be between an Australian and a British speaker.
Funny Misunderstandings
The /p/ and /b/ sounds cause problems for a lot of learners, who cannot hear or produce the difference between pairs of words like crap and crab.
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The Sound of Silence
In my last class, a South Korean student told me about his weekend visit to Liverpool. He said it wasn’t easy to understand the local way of speaking, and gave the example of the question word What? He demonstrated how this word had been said, with the final ‘t’ replaced with a silence, or glottal stop, so it sounds like wha’? Continue reading “The Sound of Silence”
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Get one free lesson sample from each of the four PronPack books! Includes PDFs of the teacher’s notes and worksheet, plus MP3 audio files where necessary. Download from the ELT Materials section at hancockmcdonald.com.
North America version for PronPack 3.1
A collection of extra resources like this to be added soon to the ‘Resources’ page! Free sample downloads for this activity in the ELT Materials section at hancockmcdonald.com.
Asia version for PronPack 3.1
Free sample downloads for this activity here in the Materials section at Hancock McDonald ELT website.
A collection of extra resources like this to be added soon to the ‘Resources’ page!
It depends how you say it
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nPack eBooks with embedded audio are now available on Kobo and iBooks. Print versions are available from Amazon or at BEBC.
Additional teacher resources on this website include; print-friendly worksheets, downloadable audio files and more.
PronPack published on iBooks and Kobo!
PronPack 1-4 are now available on iBooks and Kobo (ePub versions) we are still busy making other formats available, including Print on Demand…
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Wearing the Teacher’s Hat
At the NCE conference in Ede, Netherlands. The hat means I’m in role of teacher and you’re the students. Hats off means we’re all what we are – conference participants. In teacher role, I demonstrated two task sequences for pronunciation lessons. In conference role, we discussed the pros and cons of the tasks.