Stress and Intonation in English

Why do we take so long to understand stress and intonation in English?

Children learn stress and intonation very quickly, but what happens with ESL?

Today's post will try to answer these two questions above.

Let's practise English through listening, phonics, stress and intonation.

Here're some useful Stress and Intonation activities about Greetings. (handout, audio)

Numbers are  for Basic 1, aren't they? But, are they so simple in terms of stress? Definitely they are not. So, let's study some different ways of stressing numbers depending on the context. (handout, audio)

YouTube videos on Stress and Intonation.

I hope you find Intonation interesting. Please, feel free to leave any comments about Stress and Intonation below.

Top 10 Learning English Websites

 I've been mulling this post over for quite a long time and finally I've decided to get it published. I hope you find these websites useful somehow. Any more suggestions? Please feel free to leave a comment about your best web pages.

Personally I think that the following sites are excellent for your English learning for one reason or another, however, please don't get the wrong end of the stick. At the end of the day, it's your everyday effort, which will definitely make the difference through your English learning success.

10. http://es-mx.livemocha.com/invite/r:YlTwd46v (Learning progression and network)
9.http://lang-8.com/ (Learning progression and network)
8.http://www.vocabulary.com/ (Vocabulary games and learning progression)
7.http://www.examenglish.com/ (Test yourself & all levels)
6.http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/ (Forum, different sections & tasks )
5. http://www.englishontherocks.com/index.php (All levels, sections and tasks. Spanish )
4.http://elblogdelingles.blogspot.com.es/ (Learning tips all levels and all sections. Forum)
3.http://www.wordreference.com/ (Excellent on-line dictionary. Pronunciation. Forum)
2.http://www.lyricstraining.com/ (Excellent site for lyrics. Learning progression)
1.http://www.verbling.com/ (The Best interactive web site ever! One-to-one talking in both English and Spanish )

For further reading, please click on here.

Pronunciation and lip-reading

What's the point of Pronunciation? Before we try to answer this question, let's watch some videos about Phonetics.

• Problems with spelling and pronunciation, for example, nice /naɪs/ and niece /niːs/. Please, be careful when you're speaking in English and make sure that you've choosen the right pronunciation. 

• To read one's lips and guess English words, specially when there's a lot of noise at the background. Check these lip-dub videos to practise your pronunciation.

• To  begin to incorporate pronunciation into your everyday English.

•  For further Pronunciation practice and theory, please feel free to have a look at this Phonetics and Pronunciation document.

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Whenever you've got any question about the pronunciation of a word or even single letters, you could use the following websites: http://www.wordreference.com/ , http://www.howjsay.com/ and http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/activities/phonemic-chart You can also click on the photos below to get to those webpages.

Phonetics

Hello, dear EOI students! It's been a while since I've written something for you all. Well, I've been quite busy podcasting and teaching at another school. Okay, here you are; some explanations about the word again and its pronunciation, together with some other varieties and features of English Pronunciation. I hope you find this useful somehow, and please remember, if you'd like to share your thoughts or ideas, feel free to comment on any post. Enjoy your English!