Grammar without pron . . . is like food without taste (Part 2)

Ten Classroom Activities based on my Ten Liberating Assumptions about Pronunciation (that appeared in the Jan 2018 issue of Modern English Teacher) Part 2 is in the Apr 2018 issue of MET In Part 1 of this article (MET 27.1 in Jan 2018) I outlined ten different ways of...

Sounds … were somewhere in the air, floating, not reachable

Elisabetta Alborghetti is a private teacher working in Milan. She described to me the challenge facing learners of pronunciation in this poetic way….“…. sounds I did not know were somewhere in the air, floating, not reachable. I only used the ear … which was not...

Why are there no example words or pictures on the pron chart?

 Why are there no example words or pictures on the chart? Question: Do you think associating the symbols to words or pictures can be useful or is it better to focus on the sound itself and how it is made before giving it a name? Reply: Yes, finding example words to...