Video Primers

Watch my talk at the Macmillan Online Conference in 2012 or try the one-hour pronunciation workshop filmed at Exeter College, Oxford University below:

In an exclusive series of short videos about pronunciation, pronunciation learning and how to teach pronunciation, I offer practical advice to help teachers teach their students the different sounds of the English language. Find the interactive chart and activities to accompany the series at: http://www.macmillanenglish.com/pronunciation-skills/. The videos can be found in a YouTube playlist here:

Pronunciation Skills with Adrian Underhill

Videos in this series cover:

The Phonemic Chart part 1
The Phonemic Chart part 2
Vowels / Diphthongs / Consonants
The Three levels of Pronunciation
Pronunciation is Physical
The ‘muscle buttons’
Native & non-native pronunciation teachers
Helping learners to say unfamiliar sounds
Vowels part 1 /i:/ and /u:/
Vowels part 2 /i:/ and /u:/
Vowels part 3 /i:/ and /u:/
Using muscle buttons to escape the grip of L1
Vowels part 4 /i:/ and /u:/
Vowels part 5 /ɜ:/
Vowels part 6 /ə/
Vowels part 7 /e/
Vowels part 8 /ɔː/
Vowels part 9 /æ/
Vowels part 10 /ɑː/
Vowels part 11 /ʌ/
Vowels part 12
Mastering the monophthong vowels
Diphthongs part 1 /eɪ/ and /ǝʊ/
Diphthongs part 2 /ɔɪ/ /aɪ/ and /aʊ
Diphthongs part 3 Exploiting the visibility of diphthongs
Consonants part 1 Guided tour of consonants
Consonants part 2 /s/ and /z/
Consonants part 3 /ʃ/ and /Ʒ/
Consonants part 4 /f/ and /v/
Consonants part 5 /θ/
Consonants part 6 /ð/ – the voiced ‘th’ sound
Consonants part 7 /θ/ /ð/ /s/ /z/ /ʃ/ /Ʒ/
Consonants part 8 /p/ /b/ /t/ /d/
Consonants part 9 /ʧ/ /ʤ/ /k/ /g/
Consonants part 10 The three nasal consonants /m/ /n/ /ŋ/
Consonants part 11 Eleven consonants from just three positions
Consonants part 12 The two semi-vowels /w/ and /j/
Consonants part 13 /l/ and /r/

You might also be interested in my British Council talk from 2015: Proprioception in learning new sounds, words and connected speech: