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Interesting sites

Posted on Tuesday, November 19, 2013 by Ana Concejero

Dear students,
the pages I talked to you about:

Lyrics training

An interesting site that will help you improve your pronunciation in an enjoyable way through the music.

Just, choose a song, select a level (Beginner, intermediate or expert), listen to the music and fill in the missing words. If you are right the video goes on but if you get stumped, then the video will stop playing until you write the correct word.

English Central

Another site to learn English while watching videos. It allows you to record your voice and get feedback on your pronunciation. It's great fun!

Well, I hope you find them interesting! See you in class!

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Phonetics

Posted on Friday, March 27, 2009 by Ana Concejero

That's was very timely, writing about phonetics in my earlier posts and looking for activities, I've just come across this interesting site, very useful for improving your pronunciation.

You can hear all the sounds and follow a step by step description of how they are produced.

Come on, let's have some practice!

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'daʊn'taʊn

Posted on Wednesday, March 25, 2009 by Ana Concejero

I heard this song in the American series Lost, I liked it and I also had the impression that I had heard it before. Later, I learnt that this song by Petula Clark had been a hit in the 60s, yes... that was the reason why it was familiar to me, I vaguely remembered listening to it a long time ago.

This time, it is going to help us practise the diphthongs in English.

Watch the video, pay attention and change the phonetic transcription of all the words containing diphthongs into normal spelling.