Teaching Pronunciation Pre-Workshop Task

Match the following

• vowels

• sounds made with the mouth partly open and where the air is not stopped by the tongue, lips or teeth

• voiced sounds

• different parts of a sentence that are pronounced slower and louder

• consonants

• sounds that are spoken using the vibration of our voice

• sentence stress

• when these sounds are made, the flow of air is partly blocked by tongue, lips, or teeth

• connected speech

• spoken language in which all the words join to make a connected stream of sounds

Choose some examples of the voiced consonants.

• /b/

• /d/

• /ʃ/

• /ʒ/

Choose a word with a consonant cluster.

• strong

• weak

• book

• lime

How many long vowels are there in English?

(a)  

When the consonant sounds /p/, /t/. and /k/ appear at the start of a word or stressed syllable, we pronounce them with a puff of air. This is called...

• aspiration

• diphtong

• trill

• vibration

A speaker is being intelligible if...

• the listener can understand the speaker's message

• he/she speaks without a strong accent

• the listener can recognize what the speaker is saying at the level of words/phrases