The Schwa Sound
Weak vowels and function words
The most common sound in English, taught as a fluency strategy: stress the content, relax the rest.
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Pronunciation
Word stress, sentence stress, the schwa, intonation and more, with drills and games. Also as a 16-lesson bundle.
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Landed, Walked, Explored
-ed Endings
The three -ed sounds, /t/ /d/ /ɪd/, through the story of the first Moon landing.
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Past Tense -ED Endings
/t/, /d/ and /ɪd/
Walked, played, wanted: three -ed sounds, one rule, plus the throat test and a story to read aloud.
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Plural Endings
/s/, /z/ and /ɪz/
Cats, dogs and buses: the three plural sounds, with sound corners, a team race and a class survey.
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Word Stress
Finding the stress within the word
Five clear rules for where the stress falls, from PHOtograph to phoTOgrapher, plus a team stress race.
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PREsent vs preSENT
Noun/verb stress in two-syllable words
PREsent or preSENT? The noun/verb stress rule, with an A/B drill and a guessing game.
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Stress in Longer Words
The -ity rule and other suffixes
ResponsiBILity, opporTUnity: one reliable rule for stressing long words, with a back-chaining drill.
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Suffix Stress Patterns
-tion, -ity, -ic, -graphy, -ology
One rule, five suffix families: how -tion, -ity, -ic, -graphy and -ology pull the stress.
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Sentence Stress
Content words and contrastive stress
Content words carry the message: sentence stress, contrastive stress and the Contradiction Game.
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Rhythm in English
Stress-timed rhythm and weak forms
English as a drumbeat: stress-timed rhythm, weak forms, a rhyme to perform and a team rhythm race.
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Weak Forms
Sounding natural in connected speech
Twenty-plus weak forms, when to use the strong form, and a toolkit to make it automatic.
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The Music of English
Falling, rising and fall-rise intonation
Pitch is meaning: falling, rising and fall-rise intonation, with a team guess-my-meaning game.
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Rising Intonation
Questions, checking and reacting
Really? Rising intonation for yes/no questions, question tags, checking and reacting.
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Consonant Clusters
Clusters and reduction
Strengths, twelfths, prompts: four rules for clear consonant clusters, plus cluster reduction.
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Silent Letters
Letters we write but never say
Knife, comb, listen, hour: pattern-based and word-specific silent letters, with three quick exercises.
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The Phonemic Chart
All 44 sounds of English
All 44 sounds, one part at a time, ending with a secret message in phonemic script to decode.
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Kindness Words & Sounds
Vocabulary, stress and sincere intonation
Kind words, kind sounds: vocabulary, stress and sincere intonation, plus a kindness challenge.
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Pronunciation Toolkit
16 slide lessons · B1+ / B2
Word stress, sentence stress, the schwa, weak forms, intonation and more: 16 ready-to-project lessons.
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