Film "MY FAIR LADY"

You can watch the film on this link:  http://classiccinema.org/movie/838/My%20Fair%20Lady

Welcome to the course!

I'd like to welcome you to this blog about English pronunciation. Here you'll find videos, presentations and activities related to the sounds of this language. I've made this blog mainly to widen the content of the course we are doing at the EOI Lleida 'Does it sound right?. In this course we will see the sounds of English first. Then we will move on to word stress, sentence stress, connected speech and rhythm. And last but not least we will put everything into practice.
By the end of the course I'd like pupils to feel they can understand English better and at the same time they're better understood.
Enjoy it!

Vowel Sounds in American English

In this video you'll see and listen to examples of the vowel sounds in American English. It's definitely worth a look!

The Phonemic Chart

The English Vowel Sounds with examples:

De Does it sound right?

The English Vowel Sounds

There are 5 vowel sounds in Spanish and 8 in Catalan. In English there are 12 and some of them do not exactly coincide with our Catalan sounds. To illustrate the English vowel sounds we use the following diagram:

The idea is to put this diagram inside the mouth of a profile to see the position of the tongue inside the mouth when a vowel sound is pronounced.

Minimal Pairs to Repeat

There are several pairs of example words for you to repeat. Only one sound is different in each pair. That's why they are called MINIMAL PAIRS.

Bruce Lee Be As Water My Friend

This is the video we saw in class. Have another look!