苹果淫院

Online Pronunciation Guides and Practice Activities

Speaking Skills

• : including key vocabulary and phrases for making appointments, ordering pizza, taking a message, etc.
• for conversation starters and making small talk at bus stops, parties, offices, etc.

Pronunciation/Phonology: For students

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  This website helps students focus on accent reduction so they can communicate with confidence, clarity and accuracy.
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  This website provides audio-visual feedback of students鈥� stress, intonation and rhythm patterns. It includes an on-line workbook as well as over 300 utterances by native speakers against which students can compare their own pronunciation. A demonstration unit is offered on the website free of charge.
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  This website includes sound clips to help students improve their pronunciation.
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  An interactive phonemic chart where students can click to hear the English sounds.
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  This website focuses specifically on word-stress in English.

Pronunciation

• to help you:
  understand the systematic differences between English and Cantonese pronunciation; monitor your own speech and become aware of ways in which you can improve the intelligibility of your own spoken English; become aware of the rhythm of English in contrast to that of Chinese; use stress (strong and weak syllables) appropriately in both words and sentences; make use of transcription in dictionaries. Each lesson introduces an aspect of English pronunciation and many include short tasks for practice. You can expect to finish a lesson in 15 minutes
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  a list of words that students can listen to in order to determine the correct pronunciation. real player is needed.

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