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Sounds
- The vowel sound /i:/ (please, meet, dream...)
- The schwa sound /ə/ (browser, server, scanner...)
- The vowel sounds /ʊ/, /ɒ/, /ʌ/ and /əʊ/ (pull, lost, company, approach)
- The vowel sounds /əʊ/, /aʊ/, and /uː/ (cope, about, choose...)
- -ed endings (1) (decorated, walked,
stored...)
- -ed endings (2) (changed, mended, washed...)
- 'd - would / had (You'd have seen more
of the island if you'd hired a car.)
- The letter h (house, home, honourable...)
- The sounds /ʃ/ and /ʧ/ (shop - chop, cash - catch...) Sample
- The suffixes -ible and -able (sensible, dependable, eatable...)
- Pronouncing acronyms (AIDS, UK, UFO...)
Words
- Used to (I used to go swimming every
morning.)
- Homographs (row /rəʊ/ - row /raʊ/; windy /wɪndi:/ - windy /waɪndi:/...)
- Homophones (whale – wail, sore – saw)
- Spelling and pronunciation patterns: -ough, -ought, -augh, -aught (cough, thought, laugh, taught...)
- Spelling and pronunciation patterns: ie and ei (heirs, field, veil...)
Word stress
- Word stress in food words (vinegar, champagne, aubergine...)
- Changing stress in word families (significance, significant, signify...)
- Compound words (Are you online? I like online
learning.)
- Two- and three-syllable words (chimney, cottages, continue...)
Phrases and sentences
- Sentence stress (This is not really my cup of tea.)
- Correcting and clarifying information (1) (A: I think Jane likes Madonna. B: Jane hates Madonna.)
- Correcting and clarifying information (2) (A: Do you like this blue jacket? B: I prefer the red one.)
- Constructive stress (Maybe you don't remember, but I did tell you there was a meeting today.)
- Contradicting information (We have not seen this film before.)
- Sentence stress and rhythm (He lifted his head from his drinking, as cattle do, ...)
- Sentence stress and linking words (What's his
name? What-do-you-call-it?)
- Phrasing and stress (Lie on your back on the floor.)
- Phrasal verbs (What are you looking up?)
- Articulating difficult phrases (Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.)
- Complex numbers (fifty-seven point five per cent)
- Contractions (I don't suppose they'd have minded if we'd come...)
- Connected speech (Just keep it all together.)
Accents
- Identifying different accents (bath - bath; bottle - bottle...)
Tone groups
- Identifying tone groups (This painting represents a kangaroo hunting for its mate.)
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