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

Improving Pronunciation

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 Campus27 January 202527 January, 03, 10, 17, 24 February, 03, 10, 17, 24 March 20251:00pm - 2:00pm22
University Park28 January 202528 January, 04, 11, 18, 25 February, 04, 11, 18, 25 March 20251:00pm - 12:00pm56
Jubilee Campus29 January 202529 January, 05, 12, 19, 26 February, 05, 12, 19, 26 March 20251:00pm - 2:00pm12
University Park30 January 202530 January, 06, 13, 20, 27 February, 06, 13, 20, 27 March 20251:00pm - 2:00pm22