POST CPE Group Lesson 3

Pronunciation Workshop Part One

• Places of Articulation
• The Phonemic Chart
• Difficult Sounds

Things to think about:

Consonants:

Closed Vocal Tract - the flow of air is obstructed in some way.

Voiced or Unvoiced?

Place of Articulation - Where do you make the sound?

Mode of Articulation - How do you make the sound?

Vowels:

Open Vocal Tract

Duration: long or short?

Tongue Position: front/central/back

Tongue Height: high (closed)/mid/low (open)

All of these elements are reflected in the organisation of the phonemic chart.

Homework

1. Follow up today's discussion on the Sustainable Development thought experiment by reading the views put forward by Bjorn Lomborg and George Monbiot in the following link: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/aug/01/philosophy
2. Choose another thought experiment from those included in the article to discuss at next week's lesson. 
3. Take a look at the phonemic chart again. Choose 2 - 3 vowel sounds and 2 - 3 consonant sounds which you have trouble distinguishing or articulating. Make a list of words that include these sounds. How many different spellings do they have? 
4. What consonant sounds does Italian have that English doesn't? How & where do you articulate these sounds?

Corrections:

Make/Do Collocations:

do make an investment

do make a choice

Prefixes:

uninexperienced

Noun Forms:

a leaking leak

Modals:

You haven't to do don't have to/mustn't/shouldn't do

Pronunciation:

youth /juːθ/