LCT SPECIALS

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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 particular.

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.