ALACS - Improving Pronunciation
Duration 9 days
Team Centre For English Language Education

Duration: 9 weeks 

Aims and objectives

This course aims to improve your pronunciation. It will help you to give presentations more confidently and participate more successfully in discussions with staff and other students. Specifically, it will help you to: 

  • identify and overcome difficulties with particular sounds
  • practise sounds that are difficult in combination
  • understand stress in words and sentences and the difference this can make to individual sounds

Syllabus
Week 1 Overview of course and phonemic alphabet
Week 2 Vowels: short, long and diphthongs
Week 3 Consonants 1
Week 4 Consonants 2
Week 5 Consonant clusters
Week 6 Word stress
Week 7 Short sentence stress
Week 8 Weak forms
Week 9 Quiz
LocationStart DateAll DatesTimesPlaces AvailableBook
Jubilee Campus07 October 202407, 14, 21, 28 October, 04, 11, 18, 25 November, 02 December 20241:00pm - 2:00pm21
University Park08 October 202408, 15, 22, 29 October, 05, 12, 19, 26 November, 03 December 20241:00pm - 2:00pm21
University Park09 October 202409, 16, 23, 30 October, 06, 13, 20, 27 November, 04 December 20241:00pm - 2:00pm23
Jubilee Campus09 October 202409, 16, 23, 30 October, 06, 13, 20, 27 November, 04 December 20241:00pm - 2:00pm21
Jubilee Campus10 October 202410, 17, 24, 31 October, 07, 14, 21, 28 November, 05 December 20241:00pm - 2:00pm23
University Park11 October 202411, 18, 25 October, 01, 08, 15, 22, 29 November, 06 December 20241:00pm - 2:00pm24