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

Improving Pronunciation

Duration: 8 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
LocationStart DateAll DatesTimesPlaces AvailableBook
University Park30 April 202430 April, 07, 14, 21, 28 May, 04, 11, 18 June 20241:00pm - 2:00pm29
Jubilee Campus01 May 202401, 08, 15, 22, 29 May, 05, 12, 19 June 20241:00pm - 2:00pm29
ONLINE COURSE – details to be provided02 May 202402, 09, 16, 23, 30 May, 06, 13, 20 June 20244:30pm - 5:30pm28