This document discusses strategies for practicing pronunciation and listening skills online. It begins by explaining the importance of pronunciation and listening for language learning. Next, it describes differences between English and Portuguese pronunciation. The document then provides numerous online resources for practicing listening and pronunciation, including websites that focus on vowel and consonant sounds. Finally, suggested speaking activities are outlined, such as creating voice recordings and providing feedback on transcriptions.

1. PRACTICING PRONUNCIATION
AND LISTENING ONLINE
@claudiofleury
claudio.fleury@gmail.com
CASA THOMAS JEFFERSON
BRAZ-TESOL BRASILIA ONE-DAY
SEMINAR MAY 11, 2012

2. OVERVIEW
• PRONUNCIATION and LISTENING
• DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ENGLISH AND
PORTUGUESE
• PRACTICING LISTENING ONLINE
• PRACTICING PRONUNCIATION ONLINE
• PRACTICING SPEAKING ONLINE
• SUGGESTED SPEAKING ACTIVITIES

3. PRONUNCIATION and LISTENING
1. Students will not be able to understand a
word if they cannot pronounce it correctly.
2. Students will not be able to pronounce a word
correctly if they cannot differentiate the
sounds they hear.
3. Students have to know it.

4. DIFFERENCES BETWEEN
PORTUGUESE AND ENGLISH
• SPELLING x PRONUNCIATION
– Portuguese - what you see is what you get
– English - what you see is almost never what you
get
problem: early contact with written text

5. DIFFERENCES BETWEEN
PORTUGUESE AND ENGLISH
• NUMBER OF VOWELS AND CONSONANTS
– Portuguese is rich in vowels - diphtongs,
triphtongs
– English is rich in consonants – consonant clusters
problem: tendency to add extra vowel sounds to
words

6. DIFFERENCES BETWEEN
PORTUGUESE AND ENGLISH
• VOWEL SOUNDS
– English has long vowels and short vowels
• not, go - cheap, chip
– Portuguese has vowels
• bolo - chipe
problem - misunderstanding - minimal pairs

7. DIFFERENCES BETWEEN
PORTUGUESE AND ENGLISH
• RHYTHM
– Portuguese is syllable-timed
– English is stress-timed
problem - emphasis on wrong words
- native speakers speak too fast

8. DIFFERENCES BETWEEN
PORTUGUESE AND ENGLISH
• WORD STRESS
– Portuguese - stress on the last, one before the last,
two before the last syllable
– English - also three before the last syllable
(approximately, category), double stress
(understand)
problem - adaptation to Portuguese
pronunciation

9. PRACTICING LISTENING ONLINE

10. PRACTICING LISTENING ONLINE
• VOICE OF
AMERICA -
http://www.voanews.
com/learningenglish/
home/

11. PRACTICING LISTENING ONLINE
• ELLLO -
http://www.elllo.org/index.htm

12. PRACTICING LISTENING ONLINE
• WOICES -
http://woices.com/

13. PRACTICING LISTENING ONLINE
• LIBRIVOX - http://librivox.org/

14. PRACTICING LISTENING ONLINE
• LISTEN AND WRITE
- http://www.listen-and-
write.com/

15. PRACTICING LISTENING ONLINE
• TED Talks - http://www.ted.com/

16. PRACTICING LISTENING ONLINE
• YOUTUBE
• VIMEO
• VIDEOJUG

17. PRACTICING PRONUNCIATION ONLINE

18. PRACTICING PRONUNCIATION ONLINE
• SIMILAR SOUNDS - http://www.english-
online.org.uk/pronounce/pronounce.htm

19. PRACTICING PRONUNCIATION ONLINE
• SIMILAR SOUNDS - http://www.manythings.org/pp/

20. PRACTICING PRONUNCIATION ONLINE
• SIMILAR SOUNDS -
http://www.learnersdictionary.com/pronex/pronex.htm

21. PRACTICING PRONUNCIATION ONLINE
• SIMILAR SOUNDS -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar
/pron/

22. PRACTICING PRONUNCIATION ONLINE
• SIMILAR SOUNDS - http://www.elfs.com/MMz.html

23. PRACTICING SPEAKING ONLINE

24. PRACTICING SPEAKING ONLINE
• VOKI - http://www.voki.com/

25. PRACTICING SPEAKING ONLINE
• SCREENCAST-O-MATIC -
http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/

26. PRACTICING SPEAKING ONLINE
• FOTOBABBLE - http://www.fotobabble.com/

27. PRACTICING SPEAKING ONLINE
• BABBLERIZE - http://blabberize.com/

28. PRACTICING SPEAKING ONLINE
• VOCAROO - http://vocaroo.com/

29. PRACTICING SPEAKING ONLINE
• MAILVU - http://mailvu.com/

30. SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES

31. ACTIVITIES
• VOXOPOP – http://www.voxopop.com/

32. ACTIVITIES
• VOICETHREAD - http://voicethread.com/

33. ACTIVITIES
• (VIDEO) DICTATIONS
– Record a message and send it to students
– Students transcribe the message and send it to
the teacher

34. ACTIVITIES
• CHINESE WHISPERS
– record a message and send to one student, who
records it to the next student

35. ACTIVITIES
• CORRECT THE MESSAGE
– Record a message and send it to students along
with a text
– Students have to listen and identify the
differences

36. ACTIVITIES
• NEWS REPORT
– Students read the news on a website or their own
version of news

37. ACTIVITIES
• POETRY
– Students read their own or their favorite poems

38. ACTIVITIES
• CREATE A GLOSSARY
– Students record their own definitions to new
words

39. ACTIVITIES
• INTERVIEW
– Teacher records first question
– Students answer and record a question for the
next student

40. ACTIVITIES
• DESCRIBE AN OBJECT
– Students describe an object for the next student
to discover

41. ACTIVITIES
• SELL A PRODUCT
– Students tries to convince a customer to buy their
product

42. IDEAS? QUESTIONS? SUGGESTIONS?

43. THANK YOU!
PRACTICING PRONUNCIATION
AND LISTENING ONLINE
@claudiofleury
claudio.fleury@gmail.com
http://eflpresentations.pbworks.com
CASA THOMAS JEFFERSON
BRAZ-TESOL BRASILIA ONE-DAY SEMINAR
MAY 11, 2012