Pronunciation Practice

Basic

See sample material

  • Sounds (1): //, /ɪ/ (Mike - Mick, time - Tim, file - Phil...) Sample

Alphabet

  • Alphabet (a, b, c...)

Numbers

  • Numbers 1 - 10 (1, 2, 3...)
  • Equations (16 + 5 - 1 = 20...)
  • Numbers 100 - 1,000,000 (200, 2,500, 25,000...)
  • Confusing numbers (3.5, 35, 305...)

Money

  • Currencies (dollar, euro, peso...)
  • Prices (£1.50, $4.95, €2.90...)

Dates

  • Days of the week (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday...)
  • Months (January, February, March...)
  • Dates (Monday the sixth of May...)

Words

  • Syllables (1) (big, doctor, elephant...)
  • Syllables (2) (tea, coffee, Wednesday...)
  • Singular vs. plural (word - words, number - numbers...)
  • Syllables and word stress (celebration, festival, vegetable...)
  • City words (population, inhabitants, building...)

Phrases and sentences

  • Short phrases (an exercise, an English course...)
  • Sentences describing your family (I live with my family. I have two brothers....)

Sounds

  • Sounds (1): //, /ɪ/ (Mike - Mick, time - Tim, file - Phil...) Sample
  • Sounds (2): /іː/, /ɪ/ (he's, his, this, these)
  • Sounds (3): Long and short sounds (think - please, this - these...)
  • Sounds (4): //, /ɔː/, / əʊ / (now, four, know)

Contractions

  • Contractions (1) (I'm from New Zealand. She's American....)
  • Contractions (2) (She's a collector. She's collected....)

Past

  • Irregular verbs (have - had, is - was, go - went...)
  • Regular verbs (stop - stopped, walk - walked, want - wanted...)
  • Describing holidays (It was great. I went snorkelling....)
  • Telling a story (I saw a woman. I was walking home....)
  • Was and were (Were you there? No, I wasn't....)

Questions

  • Questions (1) (How are you? What does cousin mean?...)
  • Questions (2) (What time is it? How much is the ticket?...)
  • Question intonation (What do you do? Do you work all day?...)

Shifting stress

  • Shifting stress (It isn't true. It is true....)