lunes, 12 de diciembre de 2016

Linking words


Video 




Composition 

I have a black cat in my house and my boyfriend give me a beautiful parrot and a bird. 
one day  his son came to my house and give me a delicious banana and cream, I was
very happy, but later this child attack my parrot, for that reason I stress out
a dim mouse appear in my bedroom, so I ran away and a boy help me, but the mouse
was in a high and heavy closet.

Practice with news



Pronunciation practice 


Penultimate syllable and antepenultimate syllable



Penultimate syllable (2nd last)



Ante-penultimate syllable (3rd last)



Examples 


Videos




Pronunciation practice  





Verb and Noun pronunciation


Verb and noun are the same pronunciation is different 

Practice with sentences
noun-verb

* The decrease in sales, had decreased in the last years for that reason the growth economy is lower.

* My company increase the market share, and as result it had an increase in sales.

* Many imports for a country generates a deficit in the balance trade for that reason the countries should import in a few quantities.

* Colombia exports coffee around the world, because this is its better product so when Colombia send the coffee's exports generate a growth in the Colombian economy.

* Is there a discount on this? -  They discounted the theories.

* Do you need a permit to fish here? - They won't permit her to leave the country

* They're reporting armed conflict in the area. - His opinion conflicted with hers.

* She entered a beauty contest. - They contested the results.

* Your offer is so low it's an insult. - Don't insult me!

* There's a student protest today. - They're protesting against cuts.

* He was a rebel when he was younger. - He rebelled against authority.

* That's a rewrite of an old song. - She rewrote her story

* I received an invite to her party. - They invited us to their house.


Video


Pronunciation practice











Silent letters



WR
KN
Final - e
(bit - bite, fat - fate)


sound changes 



Examples


Video




Pronunciation practice 








Audio in pairs


Pronunciation practice in pairs 


Voiced, Unvoiced, Sibilant

Video






More words with each sound 

Pronunciation practice 








News

News videos







Colombian news

Colombia earthquake: Strong tremor hits Medellín, Apartadó, and Caucasia



A strong earthquake (terremoto) with a preliminary magnitude of 5.9 has struck northwest Colombia, with shaking felt in Medellin, Apartadó, Caucasia and other places in the region. Only few details were immediately available. 

Practice with news - with classmates



Past Tense Regular Verb Pronunciation


Video





Exercise in class

Arrange the next verbs into the correct sound

blinded- closed - bleached - raked -  issued - vomited - touched
talked - called - dreaded - timed - cooked - covered - banned
attended - corrected - shopped - howled - decorated - studied
fattened - dressed - sailed - operated - swayed - borrowed
operated - rhymed - killed - enveloped - waited - presented
blackened - crested - touched - buried - derided- saturated
switched - disguised - washed - mutilated- listened- deformed
hardened - communicated - tabooed - hissed - formulated
blitzed - opened - shaved - vomited - checked - issued - buzzed
impregnated - loved - raked - carried - gifted - armored - forced
assassinated -  bleached - hurried - dropped



Pronunciation practice



Vowels



Video


Words



Composition

Tim and John write a letter to the best football team, because they want to win an imitation of the world cup. They have a parsh and when go to the stadium, they crash with wall of a house , for that reason the porch of the house  stay with a crack, and the door of the car fall in a pit, this was terrible because Tim are enclosed in a dome, like John was the guilty, all in this moment was a doom for then, John asked Tim how could it happen? in this moment arrived a ship to the beach, suddenly a sailor and his sheep got out of the ship. the sheep was a beast, they help to John and Tim, but the sailor can not speak, he gave them a writ, after of this, Tim and John was very well and gave to the sailor a cap as thanks for his help.


Schwa





Practice - exercises


Pronunciation Practice 


















Tongue-twister


Video



Tongue twisters given in class

* three thin thieves thought a thousand thoughts. Now if three thin thieves thought a thousand thoughts how many thoughts did each thief think?

* Sally says she shall sew sheets for her sister shelly.

*She sells sea shells on the seashore, the shells she sells are seashells, I'm sure.

*Jerry's Jelly berries taste really rare.

*Three sweet switched swiss witches watch, three washed swiss witch watch switches, which sweet switched swiss with watches which washed swiss witch swatch watch switch? 



More tongue twisters...





Pronunciation practice 



Minimal pairs- vowels



Video- Practice



Some minimal pairs

  Pronunciation practice 




Composition

A day a ship arrived to the beach, there were Miss. sheep with her long hair. from the other side, Miss bear came out from the ship with her little bird. so Miss sheep wanted to have a bird too, she was a jealous; they went into their hotel rooms. At the night Miss sheep stole the little bird who was in the bed.
Miss bear caught Miss sheep and they started to fight. In the middle of the fight, Miss bear bent her body and pushed to Miss. sheep to the stove and started a fire, where Miss. sheep started to say "my hair burns bitch!!". In the next morning, a cap arrived to the hotel and found a note that said: "I'm not Miss. Bear" but then Miss Bear coped the problem.

More exercises 

Sounds - f, v, ϴ , ð, s, z, ʃ, Ʒ

                           Examples with each sound


Pronunciation practice


Sentences 

* That shit is changing my russian show in China but joshua  should give a chance for complete the challenge and be in the channel 4.

* I think that the cold weather is bad for my brother and father, because they can't  breath well but my sister thought that they weren't saying the truth about their illness, one day in the theatre my father has a asthma attack and this was terrible for the family.

videos 










domingo, 11 de diciembre de 2016

Positions


Initial, medial and final consonants
More examples with p, b, t, d, k, g




Pronunciation practice 


Practice with news 
Sentences with p, d, t

* My story is about a company that have problems with its employees because they don't want to work, for that reason the director of the company decided to give them a bonus if they worked well,so they started doing their job in the best way and finally received their prize.  

* The sound of the piano is wonderful, for that reason I decided to go to a piano concert in the city of bogota, when I arrived in this city and bought the ticket I got a big surprise, for having bought the ticket number 1000 I had won an incredible piano.




Phonetics-consonants

Manners of articulation


Plosive: a plosive is a consonant characterized by a complete obstruction of the outgoing airstream by the articulators, a buildup of air pressure in the mouth, and finally a release of that pressure.  A stop is merely the first part of this sound (the stopping of the airstream).  In other words, in producing these sounds, the air is stopped for a brief moment (say pop over and over and pay attention to what’s happening). 


Nasal: Nearly all nasal consonants are nasal occlusives, in which air escapes through the nose but not through the mouth, as it is blocked (occluded) by the lips or tongue. The oral cavity still acts as a resonance chamber for the sound. Rarely, non-occlusive consonants may be nasalized.

Trill: is a consonantal sound produced by vibrations between the active articulator and passive articulator. 

Tap or flap:  a flap or tap is a type of consonantal sound, which is produced with a single contraction of the muscles so that one articulator (such as the tongue) is thrown against another.

Fricative: are consonants produced by forcing air through a narrow channel made by placing two articulators close together.

Lateral: is an L-like consonant, in which the airstream proceeds along the sides of the tongue, but is blocked by the tongue from going through the middle of the mouth.

Approximant: are speech sounds that involve the articulators approaching each other but not narrowly enough nor with enough articulatory precision to create turbulent air flow. Therefore, approximants fall between fricatives, which do produce a turbulent airstream, and vowels, which produce no turbulence.



Examples given in class

Pronunciation practice





More examples...




English Pronunciation- consonants




jueves, 8 de diciembre de 2016

Audio Presentation



This is my audio presentation, a little about my life

5 basic questions
* What is your name?
*How old are you?
*What is your origin?
*what do you like to do?
*What do you dislike?