“Pronunciation
Tips” by BBC Learning English offers a variety of resources, including videos,
quizzes, activities and downloads. It is appropriate for everyone who likes to
learn about and enhance English pronunciation. The URL for the Pronunciation
Tips is http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/pron/.
Interestingly, Pronunciation Tips provides a series of videos presenting
pronunciation of each sound represented by a particular phonetic symbol with
example words in which the sound exists and the difference between a long and
short sound. Also, it gives the audio recordings of the words for learners to
practice differentiating the contrast in the two sounds different in length.
Teachers may use this function in demonstrating that the same sound can occur
from different spellings. What is more, it supplies interactive and
downloadable exercises on other features of English pronunciation, including
sounds and spelling, schwa, connected speech and voicing together with the
explanation in detail. Teachers can print these exercises and hand them out to
the students for them to increase their understanding of these elements of
pronunciation. The answers for these exercises are given. There are five
quizzes about sound symbols, similar sounds, spelling, pronunciation and listening
for sounds from easy to medium level. The quizzes are printable and the
recordings for the print version of the quiz are downloadable.
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