1 / 31

Mastering English Pronunciation with Professor Whitehead

Join Professor George E. K. Whitehead to explore the nuances of English pronunciation, from understanding the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to differentiating between vowels and consonants. Discover the keys to clear pronunciation and learn to differentiate between sounds to improve your overall comprehension. Explore various pronunciation varieties and practice with different English language models to enhance your linguistic skills. Embrace the challenge of phonetics and improve your overall English pronunciation abilities with this comprehensive guide.

jchaney
Download Presentation

Mastering English Pronunciation with Professor Whitehead

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Comprehensible Pronunciation Professor George E.K.Whitehead

  2. What do you think? • Non-native teachers are poor models of pronunciation. • Korean English speakers should try to reduce their accent as much as possible in order to be comprehensible. • There is only one correct way to pronounce things. • It is beneficial to expose learners to as many different pronunciation varieties as possible. • It is important to be able to differentiate between English sounds when pronouncing things.

  3. What does English sound like?

  4. Activity Write down the score you would give these speakers of English from 1-10. 1 = very very bad 10 = perfect!

  5. www.forvo.com www.dialectsarchive.com

  6. It is important to be able to differentiate between sounds in order to differentiate between words. fan dead sheet today dad shit to die pan

  7. What would you do if this was your student?

  8. /FƏNETIKS/ English Vowels

  9. The International Phonetic Alphabet What is IPA? Why is it useful?

  10. Our Strange Lingo Beard is not the same as heard Cord is also different from word.Cow is cow but low is lowbut shoe is never rhymed with toe.Think of hose, dose,and loseAnd think of goose and yet with chooseThink of comb, tomb and bomb,Doll and roll or home and some.Think of blood, food and good.Mould is not pronounced like could.To sum up all, it seems to meSound and letters don't agree. Adapted from:Lord Cromer, published in the Spectator of August 9th, 1902

  11. English is NOT phonetic Letters and sounds do not match leading to the following problems…

  12. Different letters represent the same sound rough too to fit shoe two threw physics through clue

  13. The same letters represent different sounds… read glove through move trough read

  14. Some letters have no sound at all receipt knit salmon would scent

  15. IPA allows you to write language as it sounds pronunciation /prənʌnsieʃən/ I had to quit drinking coffee. It keeps me awake during presentations. /aj hæd tu kwɪt drɪŋkɪŋ kafi. ɪt kips mi əwek durɪŋ prɛzənteʃənz./

  16. IPA and Vowels • English has 5 vowels, but many more vowel sounds!

  17. English Vowel Chart ɚ u i • KEY POINTS • Tongue height • Tongue position • Tenseness (tense / lax) • Rounding ɪ ʊ o e ə ʌ ɛ æ ɑ

  18. Diphthongs= More than one vowel sound

  19. Identify the Vowel Sounds u i ɪ ʊ o e ə ʌ ɛ If you are finish early, write down some of the words that you are uncertain how to pronounce. æ ɑ

  20. /FƏNETIKS/ English Consonants

  21. Voicing Voiced = vibration of vocal cords Voiceless= just air

  22. Location

  23. Manner

More Related