ESLS 047 Accent Reduction Homework Assignments

UNIT 4

UNIT 5

UNIT 6

Unit 1 – English Spelling and Sounds

Homework: (1/2 hour per night minimum is expected.)

1. Read “To the Student”, pp. xxxviii-xxxviii

2. Need practice with the letters of the Alphabet?

http://www.lettertv.net/pages/audioalpha.htm

http://www.theenglishprofessor.com/alpha.htm

Listen to individual sounds.

Learn the Alphabet Song!

Practice Spelling Exercises

3. Words with Silent Letters

http://eleaston.com/aap/c/sl-pattern.html

Sound-Spelling Pattern Exercises

Examples

Practice

Quizzes

***Submit Mixed Quiz 1 and Mixed Quiz 2 for grade

Unit 2

Homework:

1. p. 15, Ex. B Compare the consonant and vowel sounds in your language. How are they similar or different from English?

2. Voiced/Voiceless Tongue Twisters – Be prepared to recite these in class!

/f/ Fat, flat flounder

Fran feeds fish fresh fish food.

/v/ Vincent vowed vengeance very vehemently.

Valuable valley villas

/f/ & /v/ Five very fast vehicles.

/b/ Betty Botter bought some butter but that butter was too bitter.

A big, bad bear’s bed

The busy bee buzzed the buzzy busy beehive.

/p/ Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

A pack of pesky pixies

Paul, please pause for applause.

/t/ A tidy tiger ties a tie tighter to tidy her tiny tail.

Tiny orangutan tongues.

Tacky tractor trailer trucks.

/d/ Deadly dinosaurs danced dizzily.

Dust is a disk’s worst enemy.

/s/ Sally sells seashells by the seashore.

Sister Susie sewing seams for soldiers.

Sinful Caesar sipped his snifter, seized his knees and sneezed.

/z/ Zizzi’s zippy zipper zips.

The zoo’s zebra zapped Ziggy.

3. /t/, /d/

http://www.soundsofenglish.org/pronunciation/dt.html

/s/, /z/

http://www.soundsofenglish.org/pronunciation/sz.html

Minimal Pair practice and Quizzes

/f/, /v/

http://www.manythings.org/mp/m09.html

/b/, /v/

http://www.manythings.org/mp/m15.html

***SUBMIT Minimal Pair Quizzes For Grade

4.Read pp. 17-20 Stress and Intonation

5.Diagnostic Passage – Prepare this passage for recording. You may mark the paper.

6.Tape the Diagnostic Passage and Free Speech

Go to the Testing Center on your own time WITH A TAPE and record yourself reading the diagnostic passage. (You may practice as much as you like before recording.) Then tape yourself talking about something you are comfortable with, like your home country or your family. (Hint: It will be easier to talk if someone else is with you so bring a friend!)

http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/#

Click on Articulatory Anatomy (upper right). Learn the names for the articulators.

Click on English Sounds Library to hear all of the different sounds and watch the articulators move.

Unit 3

Syllable Stress

1. Pronunciation: Syllables Exercise

http://occawlonline.pearsoned.com/bookbind/pubbooks/dictionaries1_awl/chapter1/deluxe.html

Click on Student Resources at left then Dictionary Usage.

Scroll down the main page to Pronunciation: Syllables

***Submit Syllables Quiz for grade.

2. Word Stress listening practice

http://grove.ufl.edu/~klilj/pron/ws/

3.Reduced Vowels Sounds Listening Practice and Quiz

http://grove.ufl.edu/~klilj/pron/red/

4.US Geography Quiz (Practice reading the place names!)

http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/quiz/geo3.html

1. Reduction

http://eleaston.com/aap/v/red-pattern.html

****Submit Reduction Quiz for grade

2. Homework Compound nouns and Noun + Compound Noun listening

http://www.soundsofenglish.org/pronunciation/suprasegmentals/#compound

unit 4

vowel length minimal pairs

Use a rubber band to practice!

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

Minimal Pairs - Lesson 3: late-let, ... (37Kb)

Minimal Pairs - Lesson 4: lake-rake, ... (40Kb)

Minimal Pairs - Lesson 5: fond-found, ... (40Kb)

Minimal Pairs - Lesson 7: said-sad, ...

Minimal Pairs - Lesson 9: not-note, ...

Minimal Pairs - Lesson 11: bus-boss, ...

Minimal Pairs - Lesson 13: made-mad, ...

Minimal Pairs - Lesson 15: look-luck, ...

Minimal Pairs - Lesson 17: hot-hat, ...

Minimal Pairs - Lesson 19: run-ran, ...

Minimal Pairs - Lesson 21: not-nut, ...

Minimal Pairs - Lesson 23: eat-it, ...

**Submit all 12 quizzes for grade.

Word Stress

http://individual.utoronto.ca/English/PThoughtgroups.htm

Prefixes and Suffixes

http://individual.utoronto.ca/English/PAffixes.htm

Unit 5 Homework Assignments

Reductions and Contractions practice listening

Patterns

Practice

Reduction quiz

http://www.eleaston.com/aap/v/red-pattern.html

***Submit Reduction Quiz for grade

Contractions and Reductions

            Pattern Chart

            Listen and Practice

http://individual.utoronto.ca/English/PContractions.htm

Content and Function Words

http://individual.utoronto.ca/English/PSentencestress.htm

Unit 6

Linking

Listening - Phrases and Dialogue

http://individual.utoronto.ca/English/PLinking.htm

Thought Groups

Listening - Sentences and Dialogues

http://individual.utoronto.ca/English/PThoughtgroups.htm