English Pronunciation
13/09/2016
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Objetivo
Essa OT tem como objetivo, apresentar
aos professores de Língua Inglesa
algumas possibilidades de trabalho
com a pronúncia do inglês na sala de
aula através de materiais disponíveis
nas unidades escolares e Internet.
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Useful terms for types of
languages:
• Native - the language you learned at home with
your family when you were small.
• Official - the language that is used in official
documents, spoken on the radio and on
television.
• Second language - language you learn because
you have to live in the country where the
language is spoken.
• Foreign language - languages spoken abroad, a
language you can choose to study at school.
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Global Language
• Two main reasons have turned English into a
global language: the extension of the power
of British colonization (XIX) and USA’s
economical hegemony (XX). English is the
main language for aviation, science,
technology, business etc. It is estimated that
1,5 billion people speak English and 500
million are proficient.
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1- Qual a importância da pronúncia ao
se falar uma língua estrangeira?
2- O que é “boa” pronúncia para você?
3- Ouça falantes de português do Brasil
conversando em inglês: qual falante é
mais fácil de ser compreendido? Por
quê?
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Chuncks of Speech
What do you hear?
Spelling
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What's your name?
Can't you do it?
Don't you like it?
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Pronunciation
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[Whacher name?]
[Canchoo do it?]
[Donchoo like it?]
[achully]
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What do you hear?
Spelling
Pronunciation
• What do you want?
• I want a piece of
candy.
• I want a can of coke.
• I want a cup of coffe.
• I want to hear a joke.
• What do you want?
• I want a lot of things.
• Iwant it all.
• Whad’ya WANT?
• wannapiece aCANdy.
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wannacannaCOKE.
wannacuppaCOFfe.
WannahearaJOKE.
WHAd’ya want?
WannaLODathings.
WannidALL.
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ED Sounds
Verbs ended in p – k – s – ch – sh – f – x have
sound T
- Look – looked
- Miss – missed
- Stop – stopped
- Work – worked
- Touch – touched
- Push – pushed
- Stuff – stuffed
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ED Sounds
Verbs ended in l – n – m – r – b – v – g – w – y –
z and diphthong have sound d
- Call – called
- Repair – repaired
- Live – lived
- Tag – tagged
- Clean – cleaned
- Allow – allowed
- Cry – cried
- Buzz – buzzed
- Perform – performed
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ED Sounds
Verbs ended in T and D have sound ID
- End – ended
- Add – added
- Hunt – hunted
- Need – needed
- Fold – folded
- Sound – sounded
- Count – counted
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Silent B
• Rule 1: B is not pronounced after M at the
end of a word.
Examples: limb, crumb, dumb, comb, bomb,
thumb, climb, tomb
• Rule 2: B is usually not pronounced before
T at the end of a root word.
Examples: debt, doubt, debtor, doubtful,
subtle, subtleness
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Silent C
• Rule 1: C is not pronounced in the
combination SC.
Examples: Muscle, scissors, ascent,
miscellaneous, fascinate, scenario
• Exceptions: Sclera, asclepiad, sclerosis,
muscovado, sceptic
Rule 2: C is usually redundant before the
letters K or Q.
• Examples: Acquaintance, acknowledge,
acquiesce, acquit
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Silent D
• Rule 1: D is not pronounced in the following
common words: Handkerchief, Wednesday,
sandwich, handsome
• Rule 2: D is also not pronounced in the
combination DG.
Examples: Pledge, dodge, grudge, hedge
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Silent E
• Rule: E is not pronounced at the end of
words, but instead elongates the sound of
the vowel before it.
• Examples: Hope, drive, gave, write, site,
grave, bite, hide
• Exceptions: Giraffe, brunette, cassette,
gazelle (You may be able to spot a pattern in
these words; they have similar combinations
in the last syllable.)
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Silent G
• Rule: G is not often not pronounced when it
comes before N.
• Examples: Champagne, foreign, sign, feign,
foreign, design, align, cognac
• Exceptions: Magnet, igneous, cognitive,
signature
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Silent GH
• Rule 1: GH is not pronounced when it comes
after a vowel.
• Examples: Thought, drought, through,
thorough, borough, daughter, light, might,
sigh, right, fight, weigh, weight
• Exceptions: Doghouse, foghorn, bighead (As
you can see, the exceptions are generally
compound words.)
• Rule 2: GH is sometimes pronounced like F.
• Examples: rough, tough, laugh, enough…
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Silent
H
Rule 1: H is not pronounced when it comes after
W.
Examples: what, when, where, whether, why
Rule 2: H is not pronounced at the beginning of
many words.
Examples: hour, honest, honour, heir
Exceptions: hill, history, height, happy.
Rule 3: H is often not pronounced when it comes
after C, G or R.
Examples: choir, chorus, ghastly, ghoul, aghast,
echo, rhinocerous, rhythm.
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Silent K
• Rule: K is not pronounced when it
comes before N at the beginning of a word.
• Examples: knife, knee, know, knock,
knowledge, knead
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Silent L
• Rule: L is not pronounced after the vowels A,
O and U.
• Examples: calm, half, talk, walk, would,
should, could, calf, salmon, yolk, chalk, folk,
balm
• Exceptions: Halo, bulk, sulk, hold, sold, fold,
mould
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Silent L
• Rule: N is not pronounced when it
comes after M at the end of a word.
• Examples: Autumn, hymn, column, solemn
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Silent P
• Rule: P is not pronounced at the beginning
of many words using the combinations PS,
PT and PN.
• Psychiatrist, pneumonia, pneumatic,
psychotherapy, psychotic, psychologist,
pseudonym, Pterodactyl
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Silent PH
• Rule: PH is sometimes pronounced like F.
• Examples: telephone, paragraph, alphabet,
epiphany, sophomore
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Silent S
• Rule: S is not pronounced before L in the
following words:
• Island, isle, aisle, islet
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Silent T
• Rule: T is not pronounced in these common
words:
• Castle, Christmas, fasten, listen, often,
whistle, thistle, bustle, hasten, soften,
rapport, gourmet, ballet
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Silent U
• Rule: U is not pronounced when it
comes after G and before a vowel.
• Examples: guess, guidance, guitar, guest,
guild, guard
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Silent W
• Rule 1: W is not pronounced at the beginning
of a word when it is before the letter R.
• Examples: wrap, write, wrong, wring, wreck,
wrestle, wrap, wrist
• Rule 2: W is not pronounced in the following
words:
• Who, whose, whom, whole, whoever, answer,
sword, two
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Connections
Come in
Look at the picture on page two.
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Listen and repeat:
“Eve is from Greece. She’s a teacher of
Portuguese and Greek and leaves school at
three. She likes eating beef and cheese, and
loves drinking tea.”
Now, produce your own text:
Pete / Leeds / bee keeper / speaks Japanese
and Chinese/ reading / machines
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• Listen and draw slashes where you hear
pauses.
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Good evening,/ my fellow Americans./
First,/ I should like to express my gratitude / to the radio and television
networks / for the opportunities they have given me / over the years / to
bring reports and messages / to our nation./ My special thanks go to them
/ for the opportunity of addressing you / this evening.
Three days from now,/ after a half-century / in the service our country,/ I
shall lay down the responsabilities / of office / as,/ in traditional and
solemn ceremony,/ the authority of the presidency / is vested in my
successor./ This evening / I come to you with a message of leave-taking and
farewell,/ and to share / a few final thoughts with you,/ my countrymen.
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Change in Focus
As conversations proceed, speakers
use focus to respond appropriately to
the previous statement or question.
They shift away from the basic pattern
to highlight the information.
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Use focus to highlight new
information.
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Use focus to respond to a question
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Use focus to disagree
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Use focus to emphasize agreement
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Use focus to return a question
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Use focus to show contrast
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Use focus to show compound noun
contrast
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Look-alikes
Some two-syllable nouns and verbs are
spelled alike but pronounced
differently. See the pattens:
PREsent (noun)
It’s my birthday PREsent.
preSENT (verb)
Let’s preSENT the idea.
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Referências
MILLER, Sue F. – Targeting Pronunciation, Heinle CENGAGE
Learning, Boston, 2007
POW, Elizabeth M.- Descobrindo a Pronúncia do Inglês,
Martins Fontes, São Paulo, 2011
Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary, Oxford University
Press, 2011
Study Dictionary of American English, Pearson, 2014
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