Pronunciation Practice

Intermediate

Numbers

Sounds

The vowel sound /aɪ/ (size, nine, right...)
Contrasting vowel sounds (1): /aɪ/, /eɪ/ (spine, fine, brain, vein...)
Contrasting vowel sounds (2): /e/, /i:/ (Depp - Deep, Pitt - Peet...)
Similar sounds (wear - there, I'd - ride...)
Contrasting vowel sounds (3): /ɜ:/, /ɔ:/ (work - walk, were - wore...)
Vowel sounds and rhymes (The mountaineer began to cry. Because the mountain was too high.)
The letter i: /aɪ/, /ɪ/ (like, while, sit, kit...)

Words

Phrases and sentences

Long sentences (The construction of the house is progressing rapidly. I like sitting on the veranda watching the neighbours.)
Sentence stress (1) (I live in a house in the country.)
Sentence stress (2): with can and can't (I can go to the meeting. Yes, I can.)
Sentence stress (3): visiting family (It's cold. In fact, I prefer to go home in the summer.)
Strong and weak forms of auxiliary verbs (Have you checked your emails recently? No, I haven't.)

Contractions

Contracted would (I'd go on holiday to the Moon. He told me that he'd phone...)
Contractions and weak forms (I wouldn't listen to him. You should tell him.)

Past

Questions

Different questions (How are you? Who are you? What's he like? What does he like?)
Question tags and intonation (You speak German, don't you? Your wife's a doctor, isn't she?)
Intonation (When does the flight leave? Is it a good hotel?)
Rising and falling intonation (Do you work? What do you do?)

Shifting stress

Clarification and correction (Is that Jenny's coat? No, it's my coat.)
Emphasis (What do you think of the new computer? It's quite fast. It's quite fast.)