Pronunciation resources UDG

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.

Here you have a useful website where teachers and parents can find an explanation of different tools (Songs and rhymes, Listening to stories, Games, Tongue twisters.) that they should use with children in order to practise English pronunciation. This website also tries to work on pronunciation through activities that are fun and interesting for children.

As I have seen most of the websites work with practical exercices and leave appart the theorical part. Moreover, most of them don't take into account the catalan language. That's the reason why I have chosen this website, feel free to check it!

This is not a website of pronunciation. Kamishibai is a very particular way to tell stories to children that makes them participate while the teacher is speaking. In Universidad de Navarra they introduced this type of stories to teach very young students some english pronunciations to get used to the language. it is very interesting.

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.

In this website you can find some pronunciation lessons with many examples.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In this website there are a lot of resourses to improve your pronunciation, throguh exercises. It is structured in 15 session, and in each one there are 5 different kind of exercises. Furthermore, there is an online dictionary to help you with some word meanings and its correct pronunciation.

Learner's dictionary is a resource from Merriam-Webster. It's a dictionary where you can find a lot of pronunciation activities classified by the different sounds of phonetic. Each exercise has different activities in it such as listening to rhymes, repeating words , classifying the words in columns... We think this website is really interesting as it works different aspects of the phonetic, uses different aspects of the phonetic and it doesn't require a limited time to do the activities. Laia Peracaula, Marta Serrabassa, Mariona Lozano and Laia Masdevall

This website is a traditional dictionary. It's interesting because apart from giving the definition of the word, it also gives you the phonetic transcription as well as a resource which pronounce the word correctly.

We think that this website is ideal and useful for English learners and practice pronunciation (listening and speaking) because they can find a lot of resources such as, games, grammar, vocabulary, audio words, etc. So in this page they can practice and they can have a good time learning.

In this website we can find different kind of topics like "Different sounds of /i/" or "How to pronounce -ed in many verbs", etc. There's somebody that pronounce the word and you can read how to say it too. We can find other type of resources. Is specially for Spanish students.

This website is for English as a second language learners. You can find English pronunciation and speaking help includint exercises, lesson plans, conversation tips and strategies for students and teachers.

At RD lessons we design activities either to be used in class or as a self study tool. Each week we design an interactive lesson with ideas to use in class as well as suggestions to adapt the activities to different levels. Internet offers a universe of excellent up-to-date material to use in our lessons, so it's time to use them as an engaging and challenging tool for our students to learn English in a real and amusing way. Join us and you'll see how easy it is to use them in class and what's more, you or your students will love your lessons. The webpage activities are destined to students from twelve to sixteen years old but the idees are good and can be adapted to students from elementary school.

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.