ONLINE ENGLISH
(links to sites for learning and practising English)

 

Useful tools for pronunciation

MacMillan Dictionary (Monolongual British English dictionary - look up a word and click on the icon to listen to the pronunciation)

 

Pronunciation Activities Web Sites (with audio clips) - mainly phonemes, some stress and intonation

BBC pronunciation tips (5 lessons on problem phonemes)

OUC University (Quicktime videos and minimal pair activities for the "problem" sounds of English - American English!)

American Accent Training (very complete site, including audio & video demos & explanations and links)

American English Pronunciation Practice (minimal pairs with audio files)

Musical English Lessons (advice and phonetics help)

http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/english/frameset.html (all the phonemes: diagrams and audio - US English)

http://pedagogie.ac-montpellier.fr/disciplines/anglais/ressources/phonologie/phonetics.htm (includes academic resources for teachers and specialists)

http://www.englishclub.com/pronunciation/ (exercises, etc. - not much audio, but useful anyway)

http://www.soundsofenglish.org/index.html (phonetics - not enough sound, but useful anyway)

http://www.manythings.org/e/pronunciation.html (some great "listen and repeat"
activities here)

 

Specifically Word and Sntence Stress Activities (mostly with audio clips)

http://www.llas.ac.uk/materialsbank/mb081/page_18.htm (listen to examples and see the rules of word stress / sentence stress)

http://www2.nkfust.edu.tw/~emchen/Pron/stress.htm (word stress rules and exercises)

http://wn.com/Word_stress_on_suffixes_learn_English_with_pie (word stress - very short videos with examples to listen and repeat based on rules)

The Logical Song activities MP3 (OK, it's Supertramp, but it's great for understanding word stress... Just a word file for the moment, so print it out or save it on your PC) lyrics (for correcting afterwards)

 

Tongue Twisters (difficult sentences to pronounce)

Tongue Twisters Database (a very complete list of tongue twisters)

 

Phonetics Resources Designed for Classroom Use (download the phonetics fonts SIL IPA )

English Sounds (an A4 printable presentation of the British English phonemes using pictures)

consonants (ditto for consonants)

simple vowels (ditto for simple vowels)

diphthongs (ditto for diphthongs)

poem ( A short poem containing 8 different ways of pronouncing -ough)

phonetic transcriptions (practice transcribing & recognising 10 words in IPA and 10 words to transcribe)

transcriptions - corrections (corrections for above transcriptions)

test (3 sections - out of 20 marks)

test & corrections (ditto & corrections and marking scheme)