One-on-one English pronunciation and phonics lessons
This English pronunciation course will include:
- learning how to pronounce each English sound correctly and associate them with their phonetic symbols:
- Short vowels: [i], [ə], [u], [ʌ], [e], [ɔ]
- Long vowels: [i:], [з:], [u:], [a:], [æ], [ɔ:]
- Diphthongs: [ei], [ai], [ɔi], [iə], [uə], [eə], [əu], [ou], [au]
- Consonants: [b], [d], [v], [g], [ð], [p], [t], [f], [k], [θ], [h], [j], [l], [m], [n], [ŋ], [r], [w], [s], [z], [∫], [t∫], [ʒ], [ʤ]
- overcoming your pronunciation difficulties, e.g.:
- consonant clusters
- long words
- pronouncing "-s" and "-es" at the end of the words [-s], [-z], [-iz]
- pronouncing "-ed" at the end of the verbs [-d], [-t], [-id]
- understanding the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)
- using a dictionary to check pronunciation
- recognizing the differences between the American and the British pronunciation
- increasing awareness of word stress
- learning strategies on how to improve pronunciation in English
Students do not usually take an English phonetics course separately but as a 10-to-20-minute segment of their English conversation course. In the grammar and vocabulary segment of the English conversation course the teacher corrects the student's pronunciation mistakes, which is another way to improve pronunciation skills.
- Phonics:
- teaching reading by training students to associate phonetic symbols with their sounds.
- Phonetics:
- the symbols used to represent the speech sounds of a language.
- Pronunciation:
- the way in which a sound, word, or language is articulated, especially in conforming to an accepted standard.
- Consonant cluster:
- a group of consonants which have no intervening vowel.