Pronunciation activities for learners of English

Pronunciation

The video activities on this page help to improve your listening and your speaking skills. Members can download these videos. Some also have audio versions and worksheets. Pause the videos for more time.

Sounds

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Download the videos
► Linking words download wmv or mp4 (2m 7sec)
► Schwa 1 (words) download wmv or mp4 (2m 12sec)
► Schwa 2 (sentences) download wmv or mp4 (2m 05sec)
► Vowels: monothongs download wmv or mp4 (1min 8sec)
► Vowels: diphthongs download wmv or mp4(54sec)
► Consonants download wmv or mp4 (1m 7sec)
► Silent letters 1 download wmv or mp4 (1m 50sec)
► Silent letters 2 download wmv or mp4 (1m 31sec)
► Assimilation download wmv or mp4 (1m 54sec)
► Common mistakes download wmv or mp4(1m 7sec)

Listen to or download the audio versions
► Linking words download (2min 7sec)
► Vowels: monothongs download (1min 8sec)
► Vowels: diphthongs download (54sec)
► Consonants download (1min 7sec)
► Assimilation download (1min 54sec)

pronunciation chart ► Phonemic chart (pdf 187KB) This also includes a fun activity to see if you have learnt the symbols! For everyone.

Stress

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► Sentence stress: meaning download (1m 51sec)
► Sentence stress: meaning worksheet (pdf 52KB)
► Word stress: two syllables download (1m 49sec)
► Word stress: two syllables worksheet (pdf 44KB)
► Word stress: suffixes 1 download (2m 17sec)
► Word stress: suffixes 2 download (1m 50sec)
► Word stress: suffixes 3 download (1m 24sec)
► Word stress: suffixes 4 download (1m 34sec)
► Word stress: suffixes worksheet (pdf 44KB)

Download the audio versions
► Sentence stress: meaning download (1min 51sec)
► Word stress: suffixes 1 download (1min 48sec)
► Word stress: suffixes 2 download (1min 50sec)
► Word stress: suffixes 3 download (1min 24sec)
► Word stress: suffixes 4 download (1min 34sec)

Intonation

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► Showing interest 1 download (2m 14sec)
► Showing interest 1 worksheet (pdf 60KB)
► Showing interest 2 download (3m 08sec)
► Showing interest 2 worksheet (pdf 53KB)
► Tag questions download (1m 51sec)
► Tag questions worksheet (pdf 60KB)

Download the audio versions
► Showing interest 1 download (2min 14sec)
► Showing interest 2 download (3min 08sec)
► Tag questions download (1min 51sec)

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Podcasts of the month

► 1.172 Clutter!

Why are we throwing all our stuff away?

► 1.71 Household chores

What a bore! But some are more fun than others (pie vid)

► 2.143 Milestones

Which are the events that Jackie and Richard see as special in their lives?

► 2.104 A mouse in the house

Jo talks about some uninvited guests that are making themselves feel at home

► 3.172 The golden web

Spiders' webs: not just for Hallowe'en!

► 3.56 Liquid gold

Witness our first olive harvest back in 2009 (pie vid)

Podcasts for November

► 3.128 A podcast about poo

We talk about the smallest room in the house for World Toilet Day, 19 November

► 2.42 Watching the box

Claire thinks every day is for watching the box! World TV Day is November 21

►2.155 TV or not TV?

Is television still the most popular home entertainment?

► 1.112 Thanksgiving...

and Black Friday: Richard talks about his time in the United States (November 25 & 26)

►B.45 Black Friday UK

From over there to over here, how successful is the American sales day in the UK?

► 2.25 Shop less, live more

Buy Nothing Day, a protest against consumerism, is November 29.

► 1.133 The mighty oak

A podcast about the best known and most loved of Britain's native trees. UK national tree week starts 25 November.

► 0.9 Scotland the brave

St Andrew's Day, patron saint of Scotland, is 30 November

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