ACCENT

TRAINING
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 • Pronunciation

• Listening

• Reading

CONTENTS • Stress & Intonation

• Accent

• Common Words and Expressions Used in Class

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 OBJECTIVES

•To earn respect and trust of your students by

communicating more effectively

•To develop fluent speaking skills in English

•To put power and self confidence into you voice

•Free yourself of vocal anxiety, tension, and fear

•Ability to pronounce correctly and voice

neutralization

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 ICE BREAKER

•Annie ate eight Arctic apples

•Betty loves the velvet vest best
•Barber baby bubbles and a bumblebee
•An orange oval spooks the odd operative
•I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream
•Vivacious Val vacuumed Violet’s very vivid
vehicle
•Excited executioner exercising his excising power

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PART ONE
1 Pronunciation
PART ONE

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Pronunciation

PRONUNCIATION refers to the way a word

or language is spoken. It can also be defined
What is PRONUNCIATION? as the accepted standard of sound and rhythm
for words in a given language.

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Pronunciation

• We communicate through speech.

• It strikes the listener directly in the face (the

ears to be more precise).

• Can be judged quickly and an opinion is

Why is Pronunciation formed automatically by anyone hears you.
IMPORTANT?
• It is one of the most difficult aspects of
English language.

• PUPILS must understand spoken English, as

well as be able to make themselves
understood with it.

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Pronunciation

Hello, my name is ______. I'm taking American Accent

Training. There's a lot to learn, but I hope to make it as
enjoyable as possible. I should pick up on the American
intonation pattern pretty easily, although the only way to
get it is to practice all of the time. I use the up and down,
Let’s Practice ! or peaks and valleys, intonation more than I used to. I've
been paying attention to pitch, too. It's like walking down
a staircase. I've been talking to a lot of Americans lately,
and they tell me that I'm easier to understand. Anyway, I
could go on and on, but the important thing is to listen
well and sound good. Well, what do you think? Do I?

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Pronunciation

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.
Let’s Practice ! 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.

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PART TWO
2 Listening
PART TWO

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Listening

LISTENING is the process of receiving,

What is LISTENING? constructing meaning from, and responding

to spoken and/or non verbal messages

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Listening

• Leads to better result

• Saves time and energy

• Helps us to understand
Why is Listening
IMPORTANT? • To show that we are serious

• Helps to learn something new

• To avoid communication errors

• Displays respect to a person’s view point

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Listening

PASSIVE ACTIVE

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Listening

•Empathize

•Being receptive ACTIVE • Distracted

•Clarify by asking questions • Not involved, ignoring,

•Paraphrase: reflect
VS pretending, selective

understanding by Restating • Very little motivation to

•Shows interest through body PASSIVE listen carefully

language , tone, eye contact

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Listening

Listen to the recording. Prepare to

Let’s Practice ! discuss in the group.

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PART THREE
3 Reading
PART THREE

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Reading

READING is a dynamic process in which the

reader interacts with text to construct
meaning. Inherent in constructing meaning is
What is READING? the reader’s ability to activate prior
knowledge, use reading strategies, and adapt
to the reading situations.

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Reading

• ALWAYS think while reading

• Take notice of new learning
• Ask themselves questions while reading
• Decide what to remember and what to
What is a GOOD READER? ignore
• Use text features to help them see what is
important
• Decide what is IMPORTANT & what is
INTERESTING

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PART FOUR
4 Stress & Intonation
PART FOUR

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Stress & Intonation

STRESS AND INTONATION are linked

phenomenon; they work together to give the
What is STRESS and effect of “accent”. Accented syllables can be
INTONATION? said with level pitch, high or low, or with a
change of pitch.

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Stress & Intonation

What are Intonation patterns?

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Stress & Intonation

RISING FALLING DIPPING / PEAKING /

INTONATION INTONATION FALL-RISE RISE-FALL
INTONATION INTONATION
Means the pitch of Means that the pitch
the voice rises over falls with time Falls and then rises Rises and then falls
time

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Stress & Intonation

Too Much Intonation

I. Don't. Like. That.

Intonation Shifts
Let’s Practice ! I don't like that, but my friend does.
I don't like that...I already told you.
I don't like that, but I can live with it.
I don't like that, but I do like this.

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Stress & Intonation

Let’s Practice !

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PART FIVE
5 Accent
PART FIVE

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Accent

ACCENT is the way in which people in a

particular area, country or social
What is ACCENT?
group pronounce words.

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Accent

Hello, my name is ______. I'm taking American Accent

Training. There's a lot to learn, but I hope to make it as
enjoyable as possible. I should pick up on the American
intonation pattern pretty easily, although the only way to get it
is to practice all of the time. I use the up and down, or peaks
Let’s try American Accent and valleys, intonation more than I used to. I've been paying
attention to pitch, too. It's like walking down a staircase. I've
been talking to a lot of Americans lately, and they tell me that
I'm easier to understand. Anyway, I could go on and on, but
the important thing is to listen well and sound good. Well,
what do you think? Do I?

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Accent

B vs V
P vs F
L vs R
“TH” - voiced
COMMON
PHONETIC “TH” - voiceless

MISTAKES S vs Z
D vs T
Schwa
short i vs. long i
W/M/N

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Accent

Bobby Vincent Barne’s Van

Bobby Vincent Barnes

bought a violet colored van.
Then Bobby’s brother Sam

B vs V bought a silver colored tram.

Then bobby bought the tram
from his baby brother Sam
and Bobby Vincent Barnes
became a very happy
van tram man!

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Accent

pine fine
The pool is full of fools.
Supper suffer
peel feel Jeffery plans to pick up a leaf
for his faithful wife.
copy coffee

P vs F open
pew
often
few
The professor professed that
professional proficiency would
be preferred.
pork fork
Phoebe laughed at an awful
cheap chief photograph of her nephew's
depend defend falling off a fence.
cups cuffs

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Accent

Jerry's jelly berries taste really rare.

Rory's lawn rake rarely rakes really right.
A really leery Larry rolls readily to the road.
The road's load is lessened lightly.
L vs R Lassie Lilly likes Ronny's rulers.
Lad Larry rarely loves lyres.
Lessening levels of lead really lures lily pads.
Revelers revel in leveling levels.

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Accent

They thankfully think this thing is the best thing

that they can throw the three times they need to
throw a thing.

There those thousand thinkers were thinking

TH how did the other three thieves go through?
Voiced & Voiceless
Three thin thieves thought a thousand thoughts.
Now if three thin thieves thought a thousand
thoughts, how many thoughts did each thin
thief think?

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Accent

Sip – Zip
The Z sound is a voiced
Loose – Lose
sound because the vocal
Seal – Zeal
cords vibrate when you
Race – Raise
make the sound.
Sink – Zink

S vs Z The S sound is a voiceless

Price – Prize
Said – Zed
or unvoiced sound because
Piece – Peas
the vocal cords do not
Lace – Lays
vibrate when you make the
Niece – Knees
sound.
Use (noun) – Use (verb)

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Accent

/d/ /t/ /id/

L called P helped T wanted

N cleaned K looked D needed
R offered F sniffed
D vs T G damaged GH laughed
Ending sounds V loved SH washed
S used CH watched
Z amazed SS kissed
B rubbed C danced
M claimed X fixed

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Accent

A bitter biting bittern bit a better biting

bittern, and the better biting bittern bit
SHORT /i/
the bitter biting back. Said the bitter
vs
biting bittern to the better biting bittern
LONG /i/
"I'm a bitter biting bittern bitten back"

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Accent

Read the following phrases and identify the

word with the schwa /ə/ sound

1. cut the cat’s tail

2. kept track of the truck
schwa /ə/ 3. lack of drugs
4. run into the cat
5. made fun with my fan
6. cut through the dam
7. dragged the drug addict
8. ran into the dam

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Accent

Linking of sounds and words. In connected

speech, English words belonging to the same
sense group should be said in a united manner
LIAISON rather than pronounced separately as if they were
isolated .

Only in this way can be sequences of words

(sounds) be said rapidly and smoothly.

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Accent

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PART SIX
6
PART SIX

Common Words and

Expressions Used in Class

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Common Words and Expressions Used in Class

Hi! Our lesson today is…..

Hello! Can you hear me?
How are you? I’m sorry! I can’t hear you.
Nice to meet you. Please wait.
What’s your name? It’s okay.
How old are you? Can you please repeat after me?
What do you do? Perfect!
Why do you want to study English? Can you say that one more time?
Can you introduce yourself, please? Do you want me to speak slowly?
That’s good. I’m sorry.
Thank you. Please wait.
Let me introduce myself. Give me a moment.
Let’s start our lesson. Wow! Your answer is impressing.
Are you ready? Okay. You can give me another answer.

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Common Words and Expressions Used in Class
Did I hear you right? You said…
Say that again?
What’s wrong?
Good try!
Good job!
Can you please try again?
I am so happy to have you in my class.
Please always practice….
I hope you have learned a lot.
Do you have any questions?
I hope to have you in my class again.
Goodbye!
Enjoy your weekends.
That’s fine.
Oh! I see.
Can you please repeat your answer?
I know you can do better.
It will be better if you say…
Okay. Let’s proceed with…
What have you learned today?
That’s it for our class today.
Please do not forget to…
Thank you very much.
See you next time.
Have a good day!
Take care.
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Common Words and Expressions Used in Class
Jack (J) is asking Ella (E) for help
J: Do you have a lot of work?
E: I' pretty busy. Why?
J: Oh. I needed some help on documenting this process.
E: Does this have to be done right now?
J: The manager wants it by Friday.

More Practice! E: I'll try to free up my schedule. Remind me again tomorrow

morning, and I'll help you in the afternoon.
J: Do you need to read the documents first?
E: Yeah. That would help.
J: I'll print you a copy and then drop them off.
E: Make sure you drop it off before five because I have to leave early.
J: No problem. Thanks.

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Common Words and Expressions Used in Class

*Spiel: For the next 12 to 15 minutes I will not be your

teacher but I will play the role of an IELTS examiner. I will
not help you, correct you or guide you. I will just ask the
questions and you have to remember to give your answers
and the reason behind it for parts 1 and 3, for part 2 make
More Practice! sure that you follow the sequence or order of the questions
and maximize the two minute mark. Also, once we start the
simulation I will turn off my camera so you can focus on
your answers. Once we're done, I will turn it back on and I
will give you my feedback, corrections and suggestions."

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MT DONNA
Accent Trainer

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