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Date Posted: 08:58:38 06/24/04 Thu
Author: HELIO
Subject: TAREFA 12_GRUPO 3_Ingl�s

CRISTINA, FERNANDA, H�LIO, LET�CIA, LUCAS

At the address http://www.faceweb.okanagan.bc.ca/pron / we found tongue twisters such as:
Thieves are thankless thugs who deserve our wrath. to practice the TH sound.
Climbing crimes are lures for crowded clowns. to practice the / l / and / r /sounds.
Pip and Pete shipped the sheep ships cheaply. to practice the / i / and / i: /sounds.

I found this exercise to be very interesting. The initial difficulty served to show its importance. This is not something that many people master in their own language; to try and do it in a foreign language may seem to be a bit pretentious, but really is nothing but a challenge. I guess the site would have been more helpful if we could hear the sentences, or at least some of them, being said at normal speed, by native English speakers. As it is, there�s no sound on that page at all.

In the address http://www.faceweb.okanagan.bc.ca/pron/minpair1.html we found Minimal Pares such as: bid bead
sip ship
lot rot
vain wane
boat both
than Dan
frilled thrilled ether either
climb crime
vine wine

It is a constant struggle to most foreign speakers to get these sounds right. In this site we could hear the words and then we were asked to identify the sounds, which was great exercise. At first we click on the words just to hear them and notice the difference in pronunciation. Then there�s a game of sorts. The computer says a word and we must click over the one just pronounced. If we click on the right one the computer adds a mark for us on the score board. At the end we can see how many words were said and how many out of those we managed to get right.
The fact that this exercise allow the user to hear the words is very helpful. I also found it to be very efficiently design because the minimal pares chosen are precisely the ones foreigners usually have problems with.

In the address http://pronunciation.englishclub.com/homophones.htm there are examples of homophones both with different spelling (e.g. way weigh) and homographs (e.g. bear bear) and we have the opportunity to listening to the words. There was also a partial list of homophones. Unfortunately there are only a few words which we can actually hear pronounced, so I thought the activity was not very fruitful, although the importance of these homophones are unquestionable. Some sort of game in which we would hear a word in a sentence and have to identify it by the meaning, would have made the site more helpful.

At http://eleaston.com/aap/v/red-pattern.html one can work with Reduction Patterns and reduction forms, which is really important for our students to practice a natural speech pattern. Perhaps they won�t have native like pronunciation, but the practice will improve their skills.
A sentences such as �Can I have a bit of egg� sounds more like �Ca-nai-ha-va-bi-to-fegg?� and �If I had known about the problem I would have told her� is not pronounced like that by a native speaker. An American would probably say something like: �If I�d known about the problem I�d�ve told�er�. In reality, in the streets of American cities we can already observe the form: �If I�d�ve known about the problem I�d�ve told�er,� but this is non-standard English and I don�t think we should teach our students to use it, although it would behove them to understand it when a native says it.
On this site www.teachnology.com, suggested by Fernanda, we can find links to lots of things, including literary work. What was nice about this site compared to others such as http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/, is that there are some poems recorded so that the student can actually hear a native speaker reading the work of famous writers such as Shakespeare and Donne.
Of course literary work is not always appealing to students and current events might be more their cup of tea. For that there are two interesting sites: www.CNN.com is well know to most of us as the site to get international news, but we choose www.brazzil.com as the one that should be visited more often for this because it is Brazilian current events written in English. Some of the texts are translations of articles written in Portuguese, and the teacher should read it carefully before suggesting them as the translations are not always reliable. We liked the texts which were originally written in English because they provide good samples of modern English and addressed subjects which are relevant to our students.
At http://www.selfaccess.com/sa_home.php?dirReload=sa_about_ielts.php the teacher will be able to find exercises for intermediate and advanced students. There are even listening exercises to simulate the TOEFL and IELTS tests.

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[> Re: TAREFA 12_GRUPO 3_Ingl�s -- Vera, 09:47:20 06/29/04 Tue [1]

Percebi na sele��o de voc�s que voc�s privilegiaram a parte de pron�nica, o que considero bem relevante, pois essa � uma grande dificuldade de aprendizes de LE.
Parab�ns,

Vera

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