English class with Elizabeth (11.3.2011)

Class started with something unusual as usually, with video from Youtube “Full Yogic Breath – Pranayama”. See link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TWnDHafou4

1. SENTENCE ANALYSIS

The successful applicant must have experience in sentence analysis.

S/NP – subject/noun phrase

V/VP – verb/verb phrase

O/NP – object/noun phrase -- H/n  

                                                  --  PoM/PP ----   P/Pprp (preposition)

                                                                     ----     PC/NP   ------    H/n

                                                                                             -------  Pre/n (noun)
                                                             

 She wants to marry a Norvegian who is rich.

2. PHONETICS

After sentence analysis phonetic exercise followed.

Training for the diphthongs.

day /dei/

ear /iǝ/

boy /boi/

buy /bai/

house /haʊs/

cold /koʊld/

tour /tʊə /

hair /heǝ/

3. CORRECTING MISTAKES IN SPELLING
A spelling correction of an essay writtne by Danish student from 9th grade.

After having spendt (spent) 11 years in a danish (Danish) “folkeskole” I wanted a change of senery (scenery) I was lucky and got a job as a cliner (cleaner) on a boarding school in England just after christmas (Chrismas).

spendt – spent                danish – Danish               senery – scenery

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4. THE ORGANS OF SPEECH

To reach correct pronunciation is necessary to know where is each sound created and it is even more important if you want to explain the pronunciation to pupils.

Here is a short video illustrating the process of creating sounds:

After this followed exercise with ´Sound pictures´. Our task was to find thinks in the picture which are pronounced with diphthong /ai/ or /ei/.

/ei/	/ai/
painting	bike
cake	cake
suitcase	suitcase
railway	five
train	wine
plate	typewriter
table	kite
radio		pipe
rain		mice
skates		tie
weight		sky
tape
label
frame

For more practice see page: http://www.englishphonetics4u.blogspot.com/



http://www.tuninst.net/Romabama/Bur-Gramm2/prop-con/prop-con.htm



Then we were practicing pronunciation of certain words (pleasure, zoo, fairy, shout, Thursday …) and investigating where is each sound made in our mouth.

Phonetic alphabet:



So if you want to pronounce English correctly, it is a good idea to learn phonetic alphabet to be able to use dictionary and read words the right way.



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