INTERACTIVE PHONETIC CHART OF ENGLISH SOUNDS

Listen to the sounds of English on this video by The English Language Club.
Just click on the sound you want to hear.

Can you find at least one word for each sound?

ENGLISH SOUNDS, STRESS and INTONATION (intermediate activities)

Visit this incredible site created by Cambridge University Press and go through all the options. You can practise word and sentence stress, intonation and listen to the pronunciation of the English sounds.

You'll love it!

Click on the red button to get started:

THE SOUNDS OF ENGLISH: the schwa

• Which is the most frequent sound you hear when listening to English?
• Is it a vowel or a consonant?
• How is it represented?
• When can you hear it?
• Is it difficult to pronounce? 
• What makes it complicated?
• Find some words in which it is pronounced.

Watch this video to find the answers to these questions:

PHONICS (elementary)

Have some fun with the sounds of English!

Enter this fantastic site, where you'll find lots of activities to improve your pronunciation:

http://www.kizphonics.com/

 Imagine you want to practise the sh sound. These are some of the activities that you can find:

Give it a try!

CRAZY SOUNDS OF ENGLISH!

Now, this explains it all! 

Written by Lord Cromer in 1902.

   

Thank you, Natalia, for your generosity.

ENGLISH WITH DIFFERENT ACCENTS (elementary)

Check out this application!

Listen to the same English words (you choose them) with different accents. Select if you want to hear a man or a woman, several sound effects are possible too!

This is the link you need:

http://www.oddcast.com/home/demos/tts/tts_example.php

And this is a glimpse of what you'll find.

Enjoy it!

PRONOUNCING THE PAST FORM OF REGULAR VERBS (intermediate)

Watch this video and learn the rules.

   

FAMILY MEMBERS (elementary)

Visit this link and hear the words pronounced. Just move your cursor over the images.

                               http://www.languageguide.org/english/vocabulary/family/

VOCABULARY PRACTICE (elementary)

This site allows you to learn new words, hear them and do different activities to remember them. Just click on this link and choose one of the categories to get started!

                                                       http://www.learningchocolate.com/

PHONEMIC CHART

Listen to the sounds of English.
Follow the link and click on each symbol to hear it. Then, if you click on the arrow, you'll hear some examples of words with that sound.

Click here:
                     Phonemic chart