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PRACTICING PRONUNCIATION AND LISTENING ONLINE @claudiofleury [email protected] CASA THOMAS JEFFERSON BRAZ-TESOL BRASILIA ONE-DAY SEMINAR MAY 11, 2012

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Presentation delivered at the One-day Seminar of the Brasilia Braz-TESOL Chapter - May 11, at Casa Thomas Jefferson, Brasilia.

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PRACTICING PRONUNCIATION AND LISTENING ONLINE

@[email protected] THOMAS JEFFERSON

BRAZ-TESOL BRASILIA ONE-DAY SEMINAR MAY 11, 2012

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OVERVIEW

• PRONUNCIATION and LISTENING• DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ENGLISH AND PORTUGUESE• PRACTICING LISTENING ONLINE• PRACTICING PRONUNCIATION ONLINE• PRACTICING SPEAKING ONLINE• SUGGESTED SPEAKING ACTIVITIES

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PRONUNCIATION and LISTENING

1. Students will not be able to understand a word if they cannot pronounce it correctly.

2. Students will not be able to pronounce a word correctly if they cannot differentiate the sounds they hear.

3. Students have to know it.

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DIFFERENCES BETWEEN PORTUGUESE AND ENGLISH

• SPELLING x PRONUNCIATION

– Portuguese - what you see is what you get

– English - what you see is almost never what you get

problem: early contact with written text

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DIFFERENCES BETWEEN PORTUGUESE AND ENGLISH

• NUMBER OF VOWELS AND CONSONANTS

– Portuguese is rich in vowels - diphtongs, triphtongs

– English is rich in consonants – consonant clusters

problem: tendency to add extra vowel sounds to words

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DIFFERENCES BETWEEN PORTUGUESE AND ENGLISH

• VOWEL SOUNDS– English has long vowels and short vowels • not, go - cheap, chip

– Portuguese has vowels • bolo - chipe

problem - misunderstanding - minimal pairs

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DIFFERENCES BETWEEN PORTUGUESE AND ENGLISH

• RHYTHM

– Portuguese is syllable-timed

– English is stress-timed

problem - emphasis on wrong words- native speakers speak too fast

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DIFFERENCES BETWEEN PORTUGUESE AND ENGLISH

• WORD STRESS– Portuguese - stress on the last, one before the last,

two before the last syllable

– English - also three before the last syllable (approximately, category), double stress (understand)

problem - adaptation to Portuguese pronunciation

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PRACTICING LISTENING ONLINE

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PRACTICING LISTENING ONLINE

• VOICE OF AMERICA - http://www.voanews.com/learningenglish/home/

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PRACTICING LISTENING ONLINE

• ELLLO - http://www.elllo.org/index.htm

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PRACTICING LISTENING ONLINE

• WOICES - http://woices.com/

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PRACTICING LISTENING ONLINE

• LIBRIVOX - http://librivox.org/

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PRACTICING LISTENING ONLINE

• LISTEN AND WRITE - http://www.listen-and-write.com/

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PRACTICING LISTENING ONLINE

• TED Talks - http://www.ted.com/

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PRACTICING LISTENING ONLINE

• YOUTUBE

• VIMEO

• VIDEOJUG

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PRACTICING PRONUNCIATION ONLINE

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PRACTICING PRONUNCIATION ONLINE• SIMILAR SOUNDS -

http://www.english-online.org.uk/pronounce/pronounce.htm

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PRACTICING PRONUNCIATION ONLINE

• SIMILAR SOUNDS - http://www.manythings.org/pp/

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PRACTICING PRONUNCIATION ONLINE

• SIMILAR SOUNDS - http://www.learnersdictionary.com/pronex/pronex.htm

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PRACTICING PRONUNCIATION ONLINE

• SIMILAR SOUNDS - http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/pron/

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PRACTICING PRONUNCIATION ONLINE

• SIMILAR SOUNDS - http://www.elfs.com/MMz.html

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PRACTICING SPEAKING ONLINE

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PRACTICING SPEAKING ONLINE

• VOKI - http://www.voki.com/

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PRACTICING SPEAKING ONLINE

• SCREENCAST-O-MATIC - http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/

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PRACTICING SPEAKING ONLINE

• FOTOBABBLE - http://www.fotobabble.com/

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PRACTICING SPEAKING ONLINE

• BABBLERIZE - http://blabberize.com/

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PRACTICING SPEAKING ONLINE

• VOCAROO - http://vocaroo.com/

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PRACTICING SPEAKING ONLINE

• MAILVU - http://mailvu.com/

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SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES

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ACTIVITIES

• VOXOPOP – http://www.voxopop.com/

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ACTIVITIES

• VOICETHREAD - http://voicethread.com/

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ACTIVITIES

• (VIDEO) DICTATIONS– Record a message and send it to students– Students transcribe the message and send it to

the teacher

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ACTIVITIES

• CHINESE WHISPERS– record a message and send to one student, who

records it to the next student

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ACTIVITIES

• CORRECT THE MESSAGE– Record a message and send it to students along

with a text– Students have to listen and identify the

differences

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ACTIVITIES

• NEWS REPORT– Students read the news on a website or their own

version of news

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ACTIVITIES

• POETRY– Students read their own or their favorite poems

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ACTIVITIES

• CREATE A GLOSSARY– Students record their own definitions to new

words

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ACTIVITIES

• INTERVIEW– Teacher records first question– Students answer and record a question for the

next student

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ACTIVITIES

• DESCRIBE AN OBJECT– Students describe an object for the next student

to discover

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ACTIVITIES

• SELL A PRODUCT– Students tries to convince a customer to buy their

product

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IDEAS? QUESTIONS? SUGGESTIONS?

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PRACTICING PRONUNCIATION AND LISTENING ONLINE

THANK YOU!

@[email protected]

http://eflpresentations.pbworks.comCASA THOMAS JEFFERSON

BRAZ-TESOL BRASILIA ONE-DAY SEMINAR MAY 11, 2012