Showing posts with label pronunciation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pronunciation. Show all posts

Wednesday, 17 October 2012

Misunderstandings and the importance of pronunciation

As we saw the first day of class, Spaniards are not the only ones having problems with English. Sometimes, there are also other people who find pronunciation very hard because of many different reasons (e.g. they don' have these sounds in their corresponding mother tongues). This is what happened to...

a French guy wanting to learn English



an Italian man who went to Malta




 a German coast guard


I hope you have fun!!!

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Tuesday, 28 February 2012

Adding emphasis

Do you like the Princess of Cambridge? It's been now more that a year that she became a member of the English Royal Family and ever since she's done a lot of public appearances. Here you are the first time she gave a speech by her own in front of an audience. You can do the "fill-gap activity", an exercise in which you can practise ways of adding emphasis orally.


 


Friday, 27 January 2012

21 accents

So you think you will never be able to reproduce an English accent? Sure you are!!!

Watch this video. Where do you think this girl is from?