RAQUEL has sent me link to a wonderful BBC pronunciation site:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/pron/sounds/vowel_short_1.shtml:
It is very complete, but unfortunately can't be clicked onto directly. (You have to put it in your search engline.) However, if you're busy, here are direct "clickable" links to most important parts. :)
Pronunciation tips
This is Unit 1: Then click on Units 2,3, 4, and 5 above for the different vowel sounds.
NOW FOR LOLA'S SUPER-COMPLETE SUMMARY:
Hi, I´m Lola and here´s my summary
Last wednesday, at the beginning of the class we had a little chat about Kate's theater group. Kate had invited Conchi to
join the group and they did a small
rehearsal. It was a radio play and Conchi did it very well (she imitated
the sound of a train whistle ...) Kate
also told us that in the group there were two French people: one of them was a
very good player, very expressive, even though his English wasn´t very good.
The other french guy wasn´t so good .
After that , we started the speaking part, talking to each other as if
we were in at the Psycologist´s. One of us was the Psychologist and the other
one the client: the mother who has
problems with her daughter, the girl with problems with her boyfriend... All of
the problems were about social network : Facebook, Internet, smart phones and
the time we spend with them, that can end up in a real addition, caused all the
problems.
When we finished the conversation we talked as a whole group ( or the
whole group talked) about Facebook and some bad experiences : such as bullying
and how different reactions that can happen according with the gender: girls tend
to be more introspective and can commit suicide in the worst of cases. On the other hand,
boys are more aggressive and they can commit suicide after they kill other people
(with guns).
In the second part of the class we were watching a very funny video clip called "Facebook
Manners And you" about "Facebook" but set in
1950´s instead today.
We learnt new vocabulary and few slang expressions like "swell guy", to "stick
it" , "to cry over spilled milk" etc.
After that we answered post-viewing questions and specific listening task.
We talked about similarities between Facebook and the 1950´s ( Mc
Carthy´s witch hunt
For Monday we will finish the vocabulary exercises and we will practice on English pronunciation.
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