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Presentation delivered at the One-day Seminar of the Brasilia Braz-TESOL Chapter - May 11, at Casa Thomas Jefferson, Brasilia.
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PRACTICING PRONUNCIATION AND LISTENING ONLINE
@[email protected] THOMAS JEFFERSON
BRAZ-TESOL BRASILIA ONE-DAY SEMINAR MAY 11, 2012
OVERVIEW
• PRONUNCIATION and LISTENING• DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ENGLISH AND PORTUGUESE• PRACTICING LISTENING ONLINE• PRACTICING PRONUNCIATION ONLINE• PRACTICING SPEAKING ONLINE• SUGGESTED SPEAKING ACTIVITIES
PRONUNCIATION and LISTENING
1. Students will not be able to understand a word if they cannot pronounce it correctly.
2. Students will not be able to pronounce a word correctly if they cannot differentiate the sounds they hear.
3. Students have to know it.
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN PORTUGUESE AND ENGLISH
• SPELLING x PRONUNCIATION
– Portuguese - what you see is what you get
– English - what you see is almost never what you get
problem: early contact with written text
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN PORTUGUESE AND ENGLISH
• NUMBER OF VOWELS AND CONSONANTS
– Portuguese is rich in vowels - diphtongs, triphtongs
– English is rich in consonants – consonant clusters
problem: tendency to add extra vowel sounds to words
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN PORTUGUESE AND ENGLISH
• VOWEL SOUNDS– English has long vowels and short vowels • not, go - cheap, chip
– Portuguese has vowels • bolo - chipe
problem - misunderstanding - minimal pairs
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN PORTUGUESE AND ENGLISH
• RHYTHM
– Portuguese is syllable-timed
– English is stress-timed
problem - emphasis on wrong words- native speakers speak too fast
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN PORTUGUESE AND ENGLISH
• WORD STRESS– Portuguese - stress on the last, one before the last,
two before the last syllable
– English - also three before the last syllable (approximately, category), double stress (understand)
problem - adaptation to Portuguese pronunciation
PRACTICING LISTENING ONLINE
PRACTICING LISTENING ONLINE
• VOICE OF AMERICA - http://www.voanews.com/learningenglish/home/
PRACTICING LISTENING ONLINE
• LISTEN AND WRITE - http://www.listen-and-write.com/
PRACTICING LISTENING ONLINE
• YOUTUBE
• VIMEO
• VIDEOJUG
PRACTICING PRONUNCIATION ONLINE
PRACTICING PRONUNCIATION ONLINE• SIMILAR SOUNDS -
http://www.english-online.org.uk/pronounce/pronounce.htm
PRACTICING PRONUNCIATION ONLINE
• SIMILAR SOUNDS - http://www.manythings.org/pp/
PRACTICING PRONUNCIATION ONLINE
• SIMILAR SOUNDS - http://www.learnersdictionary.com/pronex/pronex.htm
PRACTICING PRONUNCIATION ONLINE
• SIMILAR SOUNDS - http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/pron/
PRACTICING PRONUNCIATION ONLINE
• SIMILAR SOUNDS - http://www.elfs.com/MMz.html
PRACTICING SPEAKING ONLINE
PRACTICING SPEAKING ONLINE
• SCREENCAST-O-MATIC - http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/
SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES
ACTIVITIES
• (VIDEO) DICTATIONS– Record a message and send it to students– Students transcribe the message and send it to
the teacher
ACTIVITIES
• CHINESE WHISPERS– record a message and send to one student, who
records it to the next student
ACTIVITIES
• CORRECT THE MESSAGE– Record a message and send it to students along
with a text– Students have to listen and identify the
differences
ACTIVITIES
• NEWS REPORT– Students read the news on a website or their own
version of news
ACTIVITIES
• POETRY– Students read their own or their favorite poems
ACTIVITIES
• CREATE A GLOSSARY– Students record their own definitions to new
words
ACTIVITIES
• INTERVIEW– Teacher records first question– Students answer and record a question for the
next student
ACTIVITIES
• DESCRIBE AN OBJECT– Students describe an object for the next student
to discover
ACTIVITIES
• SELL A PRODUCT– Students tries to convince a customer to buy their
product
IDEAS? QUESTIONS? SUGGESTIONS?
PRACTICING PRONUNCIATION AND LISTENING ONLINE
THANK YOU!
http://eflpresentations.pbworks.comCASA THOMAS JEFFERSON
BRAZ-TESOL BRASILIA ONE-DAY SEMINAR MAY 11, 2012