TESTING PHONETICS

Now that you've been practising phonetics for a few weeks, it's time to do some testing in your virtual course.

Start with the Audio Concentration Games

Make sure you do the following tests before taking the real ones in the virtual course. 

Test 1 / Test 2

Now in pairs you'll try to find the answers to the following riddles. You just need to know phonetics.

ESL ACTIVITIES AT IES GALILEO GALILEI IV

TV Programmes

ESL ACTIVITIES AT GALILEO GALILEI III

4th ESO
ESL Newspaper

LifeStories

Click to view My life story on GLOSSI.COM

People with disabilities on Thinglink

ESL ACTIVITIES AT IES GALILEO GALILEI II

3rd ESO

They created their self-portraits on Eduglogster






They wrote survivor stories and created a Brainshark presentation




 


They wrote about their lifestyles and created short books on Storybird

ESL ACTIVITIES AT IES GALILEO GALILEI

This is an account of activites carried out by teachers in the ESL classroom at Galileo Galilei High School:





1st ESO:

Town Brochures on Glogster

Family Projects on Brainshark

A Holiday Story on StoryBird

Their own comic strip 

PHONETICS II

By now all of you should have practised some vowel and consonant sounds in the  BBC site and done some minimal pair activities.  Refer to this website for further study. Remember
 this site to keep working on the pairs studied so far. When you finish you can do more practice here.
Make sure you've gone through all the quizzes in the BBC site.

Let's start testing ourselves. Do this short test and tell me how you did. 
Now for the games:

• Try the minimal pair difference game on your own and later in pairs. 
• This one for silent letters

If you need extra explanation on any sound, click here and you'll get to learn how to pronounce all the symbols and sounds in English.


Finally explore this useful interactive

OSCAR NOMINEES 2014

 I guess if you like films and the cinema you will love your assignment this week. As you might know on January 16th the nominations for the Oscars 2014 were announced.







You must watch the announcement of the nominees and the 9 trailers in the link below:

Once you have watched the trailers for the nine nominees for The Best Picture (around 2 minutes each trailer) I want you to fill in the quizz below