This enlightening workshop helps you improve your pronunciation, tone, pace and pausing by highlighting particular problem areas for Sri Lankan speakers of English.
You will play a variety of pronunciation games, use the British Council’s interactive phonemic chart* and make digital recordings of your voice. Feedback on your strengths and weaknesses will ensure you immediately improve your pronunciation.
After this one-day workshop you will be able to:
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have an awareness of where your strengths and weaknesses in speaking English |
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have an awareness of impolite intonation |
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have an enhanced understanding of the expectations of meetings |
You can expect to:
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improve your pronunciation of English words |
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improve the clarity of your speech by controlling pace and stress |
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become aware of your voice as a business tool |
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ensure you use polite language and intonation |
Introduction
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Strengths and weaknesses; sounds and spelling |
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The phonetic alphabet and the dictionary |
Vowels
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Discriminating between different vowels and diphthongs |
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Problem sounds & words |
Consonants
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Understanding consonants |
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Voicing: plosives, affricates and fricatives |
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Problem words |
Linking
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What is linking? |
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Putting words together |
Stress
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Syllable and word stress |
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Stress in phrases and compound nouns |
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The schwa, function words, sentence stress (word, sentence and contrastive) |
Stress
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Pace, Pausing and Intonation |
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Chunking and avoiding the ‘machine gun’ effect |
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Mood (recognizing frustration/irritation) |
*On-site courses only
This course is for anyone who wants to improve the clarity of their pronunciation in English.
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