LISTENING
and PRONUNCIATION(practical demonstration with follow up exercises and teaching tips)
- The relationship between listening and articulation
- VOCAL VINCENT – a rapid, kinesthetic way of learning vowel sounds
- Short and long vowel sounds
- Diphthongs
- Voiced and voiceless consonants in initial and final positions
- The influence in final positions on vowel length and pronunciation
- Individual word stress; the placing of syllable stress in long words
- Strong and weak forms
- Contraction
- Assimilation
- Concatenation
- Key word (functional) stress and the effect on rhythm and intonation in continuous speech
- Pronunciation of letters of the alphabet
- The relationship between spelling patterns and pronunciation
- Fixed rhythms
- Words commonly mispronounced
- The effects of first language interference and how to deal with it