LCT SPECIALS

Today we meet again to talk about what’s up in the classrooms. We proudly present to you the new monthly activity designed to develop one skill in aninewparticular.

THIS MONTH, LCT SPECIAL on… pronunciation.

This is how we’ll be starting. Lots of ideas and games are going to put your pronunciation skills to the test. Are you up to the challenge? We hope so. If not, there are plenty of opportunities to learn and have fun with your teacher and your classmates alike.

LCTIDIOMAS would like to add some guidelines to tune up your pronunciation skills. Follow our advice and you’ll find yourself in the right path to proficiency in English.

TIPS FOR PRACTICING PRONUNCIATION.

What do I study?

  • Individual sounds: vowels and consonants
  • Intonation
  • Stress
  • Rhythm
  • Phrasing and Pausing
  • Reduction

How do I study?

  • Listen to native speakers
  • Identify difficult sounds
  • Learn to hear and produce the sounds
  • Practice making the sound
  • Use in context

Why don’t you step into the mood with a poem by

Donni Bridson? It will surely boggle your mind… and ears!

My brain won't work, it gets worms wrong,
But who can blame it anyway
When check and cheque are said the same,
But written with a different name?
And too, two, to and their, there, they're
And in and inn and pair and pear.
Whether the weather is right or write,
If I see or sea with my site or sight.
How can we expect our students to learn
When we sew or sow and turn and tern?
I would, or wood, change the words if I could
To make more sense, or is it cents?
The bells were tolled, or were they told?
The shoes were soled, or where they sold?
Chips and place, your plaice, or mine?
The English language is divine!
The words we ewes, the hair I died,
Or the hare dyed, I sighed or side?
Even teechers sumthymes get it wrong!
I hope ewe like my little song.

And remember! Always have fun and you’ll learn all that you can.

News to share AT ONCE

Hey!

 As the cold, dark nights draw in, November is the month for hunkering down in the kitchen and cooking up comforting stews and rib-sticking roasts.

Some of you may want to seize this opportunity for a day of reading and enjoying your favourite blog. So, here we are. What’s new, folks?

At LCTIDIOMAS, we have a brand new email to polish and boast about. Guess what! It’s all for you. Yes, this email is for you to send your writings. Whenever the teacher tells you to write an essay, story, report… and you feel bored to write it in hand, that’s your chance to send it via email. Type away at your computer and then submit your work to this supercool, superfast address:

emailme

Your teachers will be delighted to get them this way. Come on! Give it a dare!

And we’ll be publishing new photos on our website. Don’t forget and log in! See you soon and happy. smile12

What do you do when Halloween is over?

Another great event has shed its last leaf. Sniff.

No regrets, my friends. Although Halloween’s ghastly beauty is underground for another whole year, we still hope for a candle-lit future.

Yes, I know it’s too soon to be talking about the ”X” word. But what do you do when the best day in the year is gone?

Talk about it, of course!

Mention of the contest winners can be found in our website. Also you can enjoy photos of the event as well as gruesome reminders of past Halloween parties.

If you want to have fun right here, oggle these great collages I’ve prepared for you.

As always, comments are welcome.