Pronunciation resources UDG

Learn how to speak and spell different English words with two interactive characters . In this section students are able to improve their English pronunciation through fun action songs, stories and games. They can discover tricky spelling rules and practise their English spelling in the tricky words section.

Games to practice oral skills. Teachers can focus on pronunciation. The games are for the different Primary School levels.

Easy and quite simple games to play with children from different levels. Useful to work P pronunciation and oral skills.

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.

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.

Cambridge University Press is a organization that invests in researches and in educational. Is an active publisher in dissemination of knowledge and establishes standards for the quality, content, design, production and printing of its publications.This is a complete website; here you can find different tabs, one of these is dedicated to students, well-structured with different sections for primary, secondary and adult students. Another one is dedicated to teachers, there you can find many resources, exercises and activities that will help you in order to prepare your classes.

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.

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.

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.