ICT 4 ELT Portals

Pronunciation for intermediate students and their teachers

Compiled and annotated by
Ivana Megvinet-Chucesovová,
SSŠVT Praha 9.

• BBC British Council teaching English – Think – Pronunciation

  http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/think/pron.shtml

  On these pages you will find links to articles connected with the teaching of pronunciation, listening and speaking activities – e.g. integrating pronunciation into classroom activities, word stress, connected speech, English sentence stress etc.

• English pronunciation skills for student practice and exercise

  http://www.eslgold.com/pronunciation.html

  This website provides textbook recommendations, tips for teaching, lesson plans and ideas, pronunciation links, software and CD-ROMs and testing pronunciation.

• Free EFL/ESL Interactive pronunciation exercises online

  http://cla.univ-fcomte.fr/english/sites/pron.htm

  This link contains useful sites for ESL/EFL teachers and students -limericks, vowel sounds, silent letters, reduction, word stress, phrasal stress, intonation, American English pronunciation…

• Authentic American Pronunciation

  http://evaeaston.com/pr/links.html

  This website consists of three parts: consonant sounds, vowel sounds and teaching pronunciation. The last part includes the following links – English around the world, testing and teaching pronunciation, activities, quizzes, readings and songs.

• English Pronunciation and Speaking skills – ESL

  http://esl.about.com/od/intermediatepronunciation/

  A number of phonetic exercises, tips and strategies to improving your accent and speaking skills.

• Pronunciation teaching ideas for ESL teachers

  http://www.eslflow.com/pronunciationlessonplans.html

  ESL tips for teaching pronunciation – dealing with errors, techniques and various exercises. Links to pronunciation lesson plans, materials and activities.

• Pronunciation

  http://www.onestopenglish.com/Skills/Speaking/pronunciation/

  This site provides pronunciation exercise archive, pronunciation bibliography and glossary of terminology.

• Sounds of English

  http://www.soundsofenglish.org/pronunciation/

  This site is divided into several sections.

  • How to pronounce specific sounds in English
  • English word stress
  • English sentence stress and intonation
  • Pronunciation exercises and activities

• The Tongue Twister Database

  http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8136/tonguetwisters.html

  This page was originally created to give a good group of tongue twisters to people in speech therapy, to people who want to work on getting rid of an accent, or to people who just like tongue twisters.

• 1^st International Collection of Tongue Twisters

  http://www.uebersetzung.at/twister/en.htm

  This collection contains tongue twisters in many different languages. Four hundred tongue twisters are in English.