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5 Day Intensive Group Course

Practical course covering the full ‘The Sound of English’ course book with the teachers who made it. Classes cover the sounds, structure and intonation of GB English with lots of practice and interaction in a small group.

Aim: Learn the sounds and intonation of GB English.

Duration: 5 days / 30 hours / Monday to Friday 10:00-17:00

Group Class Date:
‘The Sound of English’: 26th – 30th October
‘Advanced’: 2nd-6th November

Fee: £349.00/course – limited to 8 places.
Special Offer: £599.00 for both courses.

Materials: ‘The Sound of English’ book + 3CDs.

Level: Designed for high level 2nd language speakers of English.

Class 1 – Consonant & Vowel Intro | Schwa | Function/Content | Intonation intro
Class 2 – Fricative Consonants | th | < s > endings | Function Words | Homographs
Class 3 – Long Vowel Sounds | /ɪ/ vs /i:/ | silent < r > | 2 Syllable Stress | wh- intonation
Class 4 – Plosive Consonants | /t/ vs /ʔ/ | < ed > endings | 3 Syllable Stress | yes/no intonation
Class 5 – Short Vowel Sounds | /h/ & silent < h > | silent letters | Joining | prominence
Class 6 – Approximant Consonants | weak vowels | < oo > | Vowel Joining | tag intonation
Class 7 – Diphthong Vowels | < o > words | Compounds | high-fall intonation
Class 8 – Nasal Consonants | ŋ or ŋg | < a > | Double Stress Compounds | fall-rise intonation
Class 9 – Affricate Consonants | long vs short vowels | contractions | Stress Shift | adverbials
Class 10 – sounds review | structure review | intonation review

ADVANCED PRONUNCIATION

Class 1 – Vowel Position & Grids | ɪ vs i | ʊ vs u | ʌ vs æ vs ɑ |
Class 2 – 4 Weak Vowels | weak vowel joining | function /r/ joining |
Class 3 – Diphthong Vowels | diphthong vs monophthong | assimilations + ɫ |
Class 4 – 12 Phonemes | reduced vowels | vowel + < r > | vowels and stress |
Class 5 – Consonant Charts | dental joining | silent syllables
Class 6 – Aspiration | unreleased stops | allophones of /t/ | suffix stress
Class 7 – Voicing | < s > | prefix stress
Class 8 – Consonant Clusters | syllabic consonants | ‘ask’

INTONATION

Class 1 – What is intonation? | patterns | tone units | chunking | greetings |
Class 2 – Tonic Syllable | function/content | place/time | compounds |
Class 3 – Tone Unit | onset | head | pre-head | tail |
Class 4 – Stress | rule of 3 | negative | phrasal verbs | secondary | focus |
Class 5 – Tone | steps & bends | fall | rise | fall-rise | tone sequences
Class 6 – Questions | wh- | checking | yes/no | tags |
Class 7 – Statements | definitive | correction | imperative | implication |
Class 8 – Revision & Discourse

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Arrival & Further Information

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If you would like any further information about this class, feel free to call us, visit us or send us an e-mail using the form on this page.

Tel: 0207 4040777 / +44 207 4040777 (from abroad)

E-mail: info@pronunciationstudio.com

Address: 37 Gray’s Inn Rd, London, WC1X 8PQ

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