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Good pronunciation is very important for good spoken communication. However you do not have to speak like a native English speaker to have good pronunciation. The activities and resources in this document are designed to give an introduction to certain features of standard British English pronunciation, which is sometimes called Received Pronunciation (RP). 1ST PART Introduction Have a good look at this link http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/multimedia/pron/index.shtml Then listen to the programme featuring Alan Stanton, materials writer and pronunciation expert talking about what good pronunciation is http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/pronunciation/mp3/tae_pronunciation1.mp3 Check the 26 letters and the 44 sounds in English in http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/multimedia/pron/chart/index.shtml The following are areas of pronunciation you might be interested in. Check them out. For American English - http://www.manythings.org/pp/ For Australian English - http://www.flinders.edu.au/SLC/pronunciation_sites.html For Canadian English - http://international.ouc.bc.ca/pronunciation/ For New Zealand English - http://www.ualberta.ca/~johnnewm/NZEnglish/sounds.html For British English – http://www.learnenglish.de/pronunciation/pronunpage.htm Check these websites for different pronunciations in England http://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/sounds/your-voices/ http://www.bl.uk/collections/sound-archive/accents.html 2ND PART The sentence said by Eliza: "The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain" is full of diphtongs. Now it is your turn to practice them. http://www.englishmedialab.com/pronunciation/diphthongs%20phonetics%20quiz.htm The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain is also a proverb. What other proverbs do you know? Practice pronunciation with proverbs in http://iteslj.org/Lessons/Yang-Proverbs.html |