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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.

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 well known website from the BBC organization. As we have seen in class, it is really useful for both students and teachers. There are four main categories. The first one is called "Sounds of English", where we can learn about the symbols for writing the sounds thanks to the videos (which show how to pronounce them) and the activities (to practice identifying the difference between sounds which may sound similar). The second one is "Features of English", where we can find interactive and downloadable exercises and the third one is about interactive "Quizzes" about English pronunciation. The last category is "Programmes", where there are some downloadable radio programmes from 2005 on the topic of 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.

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.