Thursday, May 27, 2010

English Pronuntiation


Copy the link below into your browser. Watch the video. As homework, write down in your notebook the words you have hear. Identify the phonetic symbols for each vowel

http://www.englishmedialab.com/pronunciation/vowelvideo.html

Vowel sounds



Remember there are 46 sounds in the English sound system, 22 of which are vowel sounds. Compare this with Spanish, which has 5 vowel sounds, none of which are equivalent to any vowel sound in English. English vowels are difficult to identify and produce in most latin based languages.

Listen to the different vowel sounds in English in the following link:
http://davidbrett.uniss.it/phonology/vowel%20sounds/vowel%20sounds.html

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Brainteaser-Dinosaurs


Test your dinosaur smarts with this test (follow the link below):

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/games/puzzlesquizzes/brainteaserdinosaurs/

Read each question and select an answer. Send me your results by email .

Sunday, May 2, 2010

Present perfect