Sunday, 22 March 2015

Phonemic Chart with IPA symbols and sounds

Greetings everyone,


Check out this site everyone, It has the Phonemic Chart with all the IPA symbols and sounds expect for Triphthongs.

You can also download the chart to your computer for future use; however you must have an updated version of Adobe Flash Player to use it.

http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/phonemic-chart  <==(Copy and Paste this link into your browser)


[Important To Note] Phonemic awareness is not phonics. Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds-phonemes--in spoken words. Before children learn to read print, they need to become more aware of how the sounds in words work. They must understand that words are made up of speech sounds, or phonemes (the smallest parts of sound in a spoken word that make a difference in a word's meaning).

Please do not pay attention to the voiced [p,t,k] sounds, as we know these sounds are aspirated. 


Blessings.


Saturday, 7 March 2015

Consonant Pair Sounds





Greetings,



In this video you will learn how to pronounce consonant pair sounds.



Enjoy!




Single consonant Sounds







Greetings everyone,



In the video above you will learn how to pronounce single consonant sounds.



Enjoy!

Wednesday, 4 March 2015

Class Review and Snack/Drink Schedule

DATE
DRINKS
SNACKS
REVIEW
Feb. 16



Feb. 23
Dahlia
Kerisha
Dahlia
Mar. 2
Shurleon
Shelrick
Shurleon
Mar. 9
Claudette
Jaipaul
Kerisha
Mar. 16
Jaipaul
Shurleon
Danielle
Mar. 23
Danielle
Dahlia
Shelrick
Mar. 30
Kerisha
Claudette
Claudette
Apr. 6



Apr. 13
Shelrick
Dahlia
Jaipaul
Apr. 20


Dahlia
Apr. 27
Paula-Anne
Paula-Anne
Paula-Anne








Monday, 2 March 2015

Greeting everyone,

Sorry for the delay in posting my assignment. The attached link is a video posted on youtube by the English Language Club about diphthongs. Pleasant viewing!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1HZPx8DuDw

Sunday, 1 March 2015

Monophthongs, Diphthongs, Triphthongs

http://www.siff.us.es/fil/publicaciones/apuntes/teresals/apartado%204-0.pdf

Hello Again,

The link should take you to an article providing details on the monophthong, dipththong and triphthong. It appears to be a portion of a research on English Vowels and the link is all the information I garnered regarding the source. It makes an interesting read however, it's relatively lengthy, but once you get into it ends before you know. 

Also you may refer to the course manual pages 17-24. it too provide details on the vowel sounds, the places of articulation and the IPA symbols.

See you all tomorrow and please don't forget to practice for the test. I'm sure Mrs. Porter-Jones will be surprised by our much improved voice and speech tomorrow. Let's show her just how confident we can be. Oh wait, she can view this post right...(covers face)  

Vowel Sound - Diphthong

Hello Everyone:

 I trust you all had a productive week.

I found a useful Youtube video on Diphthongs. It defines the diphthong, provides sound and word examples for each diphthong. It makes good practice. Also pay attention to her mouth in sounding each diphthong, especially as it appears in a word. I hope you find it as useful as I did.