Gwen on the Web: specific
skills collection
The sites in this collection are not
my creation. See the authors in the description below the
link. There are many more activities online. I tried to select a
few interesting and useful sites that were not overly commercial nor
require registry. To send comments, suggestions, or inform of faulty
links please contact me.
Thanks, Gwen
Producing and Practicing Individual Sounds
The Sounds of American English
It has videos
and sammy diagrams for step by step descriptions of sound production.
American
English Pronunciation. This
is the page that demonstrates individual vowels. Vowel
combinations are demonstrated on other pages that are linked here.
(main page http://fonetiks.org/index.html)
American Minimal Pair Practice
Minimal
Pairs compare individual sounds in words that except for the focus
sound, are equal. ex. ship sheep comparing ee sound with i
This site starts out with
numbers and then goes on to vowels and consonant work.
Minimal Pair Practice (British) Excellent practice with minimal
pairs. Some of the pronunciaiton is distictly British, but there
are useful exercises for Yankees too.
Building Skills in
Reading
http://www.voanews.com/specialenglish/
The News in Special English by the Voice of America: "Radio scripts from
feature programs and the matching audio file in MP3
downloadable audio files... a core vocabulary of 1500 words; short, simple sentences
that contain only one idea in the active voice; read at a slower pace. There are also links to activities"