TOEIC Speaking TestPronunciation Practice

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Pronunciation is a factor in each TOEIC Speaking Test question.

Please call Stella. Ask her to bring these things with her from the store: Six spoons of fresh snow peas, five thick slabs of blue cheese, and maybe a snack for her brother Bob. We also need a small plastic snake and a big toy frog for the kids. She can scoop these things into three red bags, and we will go meet her Wednesday at the train station.

Vocaroo.com is a FREE and easy to use

website to make audio recordings

Students recorded themselves reading this text at Vocaroo.com

The paragraph for recording was

obtained at this website:

Students then emailed me their recordings so I could make pronunciation suggestions.

This website is a wonderful tool to

hear different accents.

Students can hear speakers from all

over the world read the same

paragraph.My students are Korean, so they

were interested in the Korean

speaker section.

http://accent.gmu.edu/browse_language.php?function=detail&speakerid=145Link to website

Tongue Twisters

http://www.manythings.org/pp/

Many more activities to practice pronunciation can be found at the above website.

Students can hear and practice these tongue twisters at the above website.

Freshly fried flying fish

Swan swam over the sea,Swim, swan, swim!

Swan swam back againWell swum, swan!

The big black bug bit the the big black bear, the big black

bear bit the big black bug back.

F vs. P

V vs. B

The “F” sound and the “V”

sound are very similar (F = V)

(P/B) (F/V)

F vs. P

Face

Pace

Fan

Pan

Flower

Power

Four

Pour

Fast

Past

Coffee

Copy

Fashion

Passion

V vs. B

Very

Berry

Vest

Best

Vow

Bow

Curve

Curb/Kerb

Vent

Bent

Movie

Forever

L vs. R

Lice

Rice

Lime

Rhyme

Lip

Rip

Light

Right

Lake

Rake

Long

Wrong

Feel

Fear

Th

This

That

Thirsty