Let's go for a drink!

Have you just met someone new and would like to see them again? Yes? ... Well invite them out for a drink or a coffee. 


Exercise: Inviting someone to a birthday party
Inviting someone out for drinks (Australian English)

Good Spots for Drinks - Vanmag
Drinks Vancouver

http://www.esquire.com/drinks/

What kind of drink are you?

Tongue Twisters
Orange jello, lemon jello,
Orange jello, lemon jello,
Orange jello, lemon jello.


A cup of proper coffee in a copper coffee cup.

Syllables & Word Stress 2

Syllable Scramble 1 - interactive exercise

Syllable Scramble 2 - interactive exercise

Word Stress Patterns 1 - interactive exercise

Syllables & Word Stress

Pronunciation: WORD STRESS


Syllables & Word Stres
Syllables
Skill Builders Pronunciation Syllable Stress
Syllable Sleuth
Pronunciation word stress reference
Word Stress
Pronunciation Worksheets - various


Introduction to word stress 1 exercise
Word stress - exercise

Recreation Areas

Ahhh ... summer ... so many great things to do. Summer is a time of year when people get out and enjoy many different activities, or at least in countries like Canada where people long for summer and the sunny skies that it brings.


What do you like to do in the  summer?

Vacations

With yesterday being the first day of summer, people are starting to dream about their summer vacations. 


Where would you like to go? Why? -- The sky is the limit. 


Pronunciation --> [v] VAT or [b] BAT


Minimal Pairs - list by level 
Bat or Vat - with listening practice
B or V Quiz

Fame!

"Fame is a bee. 
It has a song
It has a sting
Ah, too, it has a wing."
   - Emily Dickinson


Being Famous // Being a Celebrity

Ship or Sheep?!?!

• Minimal Pairs 1 -- BEAT  vs BIT  (with listening)
• Minimal Pairs 2 -- SHIP vs SHEEP
• Minimal Pairs 3 -- SIT vs SEAT (listed by difficulty)
• Minimal Pairs QUIZ 

Tongue Twister FUN:


* Cheap ship trip.
* I slit the sheet, the sheet I slit, and on the slitted sheet I sit.

School & Places

Everybody LOVES school and travelling,right?

Today we are going to look at the poem "Geography Lesson" by Brain Patten

World Map

Continue with yesterday & a little more

Yesterday we didn't get to do all the things that I had planned, so we will work some more from there and do a few more things.

"The Laundromat" - podcast

Really ready, Freddy?

[r] - right & [l] - late

Row, row, row your boat,
Gently down the stream.
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,
Life is but a dream.

Unit 3 - rarely lures rural

Mouth Positions for R & L sounds

American Pronunciation of R & L sounds - with sound

Minimal Pairs r & l 

R words

L words

L Blends (story) 

Still talking 'bout YESTERDAY

The pronunciation of the past can be tricky. 
Here's some more activities to help you out:


Simple Past: "-ed Pronunciation"
The Bank Robbery
Pronunciation Worksheet "-ed"
English for everyone "-ed"


Lego Men + Real life situations :D

The house that Jack built - Yesterday?!

Greetings ... hope you all had a wonderful weekend. Today's question is "What did you do on the weekend?" (I am sure it was a bunch of wonderful things that allowed you to enjoy time in Vancouver and to be with your friends.)

The pronunciation focus of this class is the simple past "-ed" /t/d/id/.
Here is a nursery rhyme to help you practice the the simple past. "This is the house that Jack built"

Reminder:
watched -- walked-- missed --> /t/
visited -- attended -- rented --> /id/
tried -- called -- showed -- /d/

Wetter Weather

Hey there ... today was all about you and your THEME song! Mine is "Walking on Sunshine", what's yours?

Another thing we did was look at:
Lesser leather never weathered wetter weather better. 
Lesser leather never weathered wetter weather better. 





Here is a link that can help you with different pronuncation:


http://www.learnersdictionary.com/pronex/pronex.htm

Personality & Music :D

Today we are going to talk about personality. What are you like??

Animal Personality ... AT THE ZOO

TODAY'S tongue twister was:

RED LEATHER, YELLOW LEATHER. (Try this 3 times fast.)



We didn't get to the stuff below :D.

Do you have a "theme" song? ... What kind of music makes you feel happy? Sad?
Visit this website to see if you a possible theme song for you.

• The MUSIC QUIZ
• What's your theme song? 

How would you describe your personality?
Visit PERSONALITY ADJECTIVES to help you be more descriptive.

English Pronunciation

Learning a foreign language always is an adventure and part of that adventure is the PRONUNCIATION. Here is a fun ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION POEM to help us look at the strange ways the anglo-saxons speak this language.

Try this limerick to practice a bit more :D

     There was an Old Man with a gong,

     Who bumped at it all day long;

     But they called out, 'O law!

     You're a horrid old bore!'

     So they smashed that Old Man with a gong.

Tongue Twisters :D

Here are the tongue twisters we practiced today in class. Give them a try! :D

• A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk, but the stump thunk the skunk thunk.
• Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled pepers?If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?
• She sells seashells by the seashore. The shells she sells are surely seashells. So if she sells shells on the seashore, I'm sure she sells seashore sells.
• Betty Botter had some butter, "But", she said, "this butter's bitter. If I bake this bitter butter, it would make my batter bitter. But a bit of better butter, that would make my batter better." So she bought a bit of butter - better than her bitter butter - and she baked it in a batter; and the batter was not bitter. So t'was better Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter.

 

Even professionals have problems with getting tongue tied :D.

Welcome!

Hello & welcome to Speaking & Pronunciation 120.

Do you like to talk?
Do you want to talk to more people in English?
Do you want to have the words flow more easily off your tongue?
Do you want to stop feeling so tongue tied?

Whether your answers to these questions was yes or no ... working to together we'll improve our skills and have a good time.