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Pronunciation Activities Click here to see a selection of ideas to practise minimal pairs (words which differ in only one sound, such as "cat" and "cut"). There is also a minimal pairs list here if you want some ideas to use with the activities.

The Reading Horizons Pronunciation Tool helps English Language Learners and struggling readers improve their English speaking abilities. The tool visually shows the proper tongue placement when sounding out letters of the alphabet. It also allows the user to record their voice and compare it with the correct English pronunciation.

English Central is a good tool to practise listening and speaking focusing on the pronunciation. Besides, it uses a system that recognises your voice, you can record it and if you are interested in, you can also practise different dialogues and the use of English through different videos. To sum up, it's an essential tool to learn new vocabulary, to improve your listening comprehension and to practise your intonation and English pronunciation.

This website helps students to improve their English pronunciation taking into account phonetic, stress, spelling and homophones. The site is for beginners, pre-intermediate and intermediate English learners. It is very easy to use and has resources as quizzes, riddles, phonemic chart, minimal pairs and many more. The web has also a forum to help students each other with English.

Here there is another website to practise English pronunciation (in this case American). It is a very complete site in which there are six main categories to choose depending on what you want to work: videos, lessons, assessment, minimal pairs, podcasts and products. With these resources you can learn online and at your own pace how to speak proper English. If you join in, you will have access to hundreds of pronunciation lessons and thousands of resources: playable audio files, true voice recording and feedback systems, study recommendations, tests and quizzes, etc.

This is a very useful website to practise English phonetics and pronunciation. It is from Cambridge English Online and it is very visual and easy to use. It's a good website for both students and teachers (maybe students above 12 years old) because there are different levels of difficulty in each activity. The site has a lot of games related with English phonetics, for example: the hangman, the odd phon'out, puzzles, etc. As well as, it also provides useful resources for teachers as flashcards, quizzes or videos.

Shiporsheep.com is an useful page that teaches British English pronunciation with minimal pairs, providing free online pronunciation and elocution lessons for young or beginner learners.

We think that this website is ideal for teachers and English learners because they can find a huge variety of resources such as activities, videos, songs and flashcards refer to phonetic. So in this page they can practice English pronuntiation and also have fun while they are learning.

I think this page is useful to practice pronunciation (listening and speaking). It's for the American English but I believe it can help in some ocasions to make our students distinguish different words that sound similar.

That is a useful page which contains information about english pronunciation in diferent kinds of formats; text, audio, and graphic. Moreover you can find practical exercicies and some theory about the topis we are working on.

An interesting web page to learn pronunciation in english. Omniglot is an encyclopedia of writing systems and languages. It includes information on over 600 languages. In the language index you can choose english and you will see the modern english alphabet with audios about the pronunciation. It includes links to language-related resources, and there's also an Omniglot forum, a youtube channel, a facebook page and a blog.