EnglishCentral and ExamSpeak

Hello to Rasheed, Kim, Milad, Johanna, Ana Daniela, Blanca, Jackson, Genesis and Renata,



The website with the moving mouth that helped Johanna and turn kit into kick was made at the University of Iowa.  The moving mouth is available in German, Spanish and English (yes, American English).  It's here: http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/

This is the website with the videos which we saw today: englishcentral.com

This speaking test simulation is also pretty cool- and you can talk to it as well: examspeak.com .

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By the way, here are some of the whiteboard photos from this week:

What EXACTLY is a cardigan?- Friday

"I'm innocent !"- Wednesday

Hello Blanca and Sahyang and Isabelle and Johana and Renata... Jackson, Rasheed and Ana Daniela.

Don't forget to write about your last trip.  Start like this

The last time I went to the airport I...

 Here is the link to the pronunciation video about /I/.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/pron/sounds/vowel_short_1.shtml


Don't go to Dicey's.

; )

 

Possessive Pronouns in Arabic and English

For the boys

Sa'ad, Abdullah, Hamad and Abdullah

Go to http://arabic.speak7.com/arabic_pronouns.htm

This is to help you learn Arabic but you can learn a lot about English by learning about the differences we learn about.

Practise your new possessive adjectives here:
http://elt.oup.com/student/englishfile/beginner/a_grammar/file02/grammar02_b01?cc=global&selLanguage=en

Prepositions

This is for Ismail:

http://arabic.speak7.com/arabic_prepositions.htm

For The Beginner's Book

http://elt.oup.com/student/englishfile/beginner/c_pronunciation/?cc=global&selLanguage=en

English Central

This is the best pronunciation resource which is free on the Internet right now .

Try it. The computer might not like using the headphones but it is amazing when the site starts working.

www.englishcentral.com/watch

Go to WATCH. Choose a video. Hit record. Try it.

Essentials for everyone

Here are some essential websites to try out before you start studying on your own:

www.howjsay.com
It's a good pronouncing dictionary which does NOT use those computer voices. So nice and easy I named this blog after it for you.

TRY Howjsay.com: [Follow the link and try out a word. Send a link to your facebook or email. Use it again. It's your own. It's free. It's brilliant.]

http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/
This is the best tool for seeing how your mouth works to make sounds. It is an image of your mouth which moves when you click on a phonetic symbol.

TRY U.IOWA: [So...Why do your Bs and Vs sound the same to English speakers? Go to English, CLICK "fricative", Find /v/, press play. English speakers touch their lips to their teeth to make Vs. See how all the symbols represent what physically happens.]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/pron/sounds/
One of the best-known British pronunciation teachers gives 44 video lessons. One on each of the sounds of English.

Try ALEX BELLEM: [Click on the /I/ symbol. Play the video. Do what she says.]

See you on the 17th at Spanish and Koreans. 2:00. Sign up in Dame Street and say hello to Magda.