Sunday, 3 October 2010

PHONETICS II

By now all of you should have practised the minimal pair /i:/ /i/ and be familiar with both sounds. However, there are some of you who still haven't made their comment on the post. Remember your final marks depend on your active participation in all the activities suggested.


Today you must go to the BBC site and listen to the pronunciation of these two sounds /u/ /u:/  Then do Unit 2.
After that, go to this page and do some more practice on the pairs studied so far.
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14 comments:

  1. J_Pelaez6 October 2010 at 21:48

    This time I'm the first posting! This unit has been very usefull too to improve our pronunciation and to learn the difference between some words. The new webpage: http://www.shiporsheep.com/ is great too, but the examples are more of them the same.

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  2. amef6 October 2010 at 22:08

    Well done, Javier! This year you're gonna be the tops!!!!

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  3. Álvaro Megías6 October 2010 at 22:44

    I think that if we learn the main phonetic symbols, we could improve our english. The two websites have many examples, and thanks to them, we can see the difference between one or the other pronunciation.

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  4. >>>IVO7 October 2010 at 10:07

    well i hate foneticks so i did the exercise only to finish with this mambo jumbo XD

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  5. Guilherme7 October 2010 at 10:08

    Hello I have done unit 2, i dont like phonetics because i am not good at it.
    Now i think that I know the diference between /u/ /u:/

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  6. Francisco Anta7 October 2010 at 10:09

    I think this unit has been harder than the first. A find a bit tought to difference /u/ from /u:/, but the last one is longer than the first.

    I've seen that some words that have double "o" not always sounds as /u:/. For example "good" gots /u/ instead of /u:/.

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  7. Jaime7 October 2010 at 10:11

    Ok, I've done it, the begining was hard but i've finally understanded.
    Its hard to think os the symbols as a sound.

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  8. Fran G7 October 2010 at 10:11

    This activity is usefull to see the difference between some words and to learn their pronunciation. Maybe some words are difficult to understand because in some examples the pronunciation is too similar.

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  9. Jack Sparrow7 October 2010 at 10:14

    The exercises are great!, I didn't do the exercises perfectly, so I had to repeat some of them, but they weren't too difficult.

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  10. Anonymous7 October 2010 at 10:14

    Today`s pronunciation tips were way easier than last ones.I realize that this kind of exercises really improve our English pronunciation,but we must not forget them when we study new ones.
    Hector

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  11. Anonymous7 October 2010 at 10:15

    hi! I've just finshed the exercise and I think that could be interesting but at the moment makes me feel boring but well is funner than voicethreats.
    by Sebas 2ºbach A

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  12. Anonymous7 October 2010 at 10:15

    Hi! I've done the pronunciation exercises. Today we are trying to practise the pronunciation of /u/ and /u:/. I think that these exercises help us to improve our pronunciation.

    Pablo G.

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  13. Eduardo Rosado10 October 2010 at 18:35

    Hi.
    I finaly did the phonetics exercises, this one is a bit harder than the first, maybe too long and repetitive, but interesting.

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  14. amef12 October 2010 at 09:35

    NO MORE COMMENTS ON THIS POST WILL BE ALLOWED FROM THIS DATE

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