2nd year Theatre

These are materials about theatre for practical classes.


A folder for phonetics classes.

Lessons for academic writing can be downloaded here.

London's theatreland video.




Photo by Peter Lewicki on Unsplash

1st year City and transport, shopping

1. Linking in English

• Learn when to use linking /j/ and /w/ 
• linking /r/ 
• and another video on linking /w/
• a separate video on linking /j/
• Consonant-vowel linking (practice it).

2. Find out when intrusive /r/ is used.

3. What allophones does /l/ have? Find out.

4. When is /h/ not phonounced?

Recordings of the dialogues:
NEC p. 202 ex. 26
NEC p. 246 ex. 11

Self-study (deadline 11.05)

Dialogue with the marks (reading).

Credit questions for the 2nd semester in phonetics.

2nd year Travelling

Follow the link to find materials for classes in phonetics.

• elision of /t/
• elision of /d/
• elision of /h/
• /t/ + /j/
• Would you?
• and
• /nd/
• /np/

Self-study in phonetics (deadline 2.05).

World Map – Abstract Acrylic by Nicolas Raymond, license CC BY 2.0                                       
Materials for practical classes.
Revise car parts doing these interactive exercises.
Read the article "Behind the Wheel" and answer the questions after it.
"Driverless cars" - video about them?
The ethical dilemma of self-driving cars.
Listening about electric cars.

Revise words related to airports by solving the crossword.
On the road - crossword.
Travel - crossword.

Decide on the best means of transport to get to different places voting for them and commenting on your choices here.

Article about ecotourism.
An interesing thought-provoking video about tourism.

Academic writing is here.                                                                                                                                         

Complaint letter tool online

1st year Weather and weekend

Whether the weather be fine
Or whether the weather be not,
Whether the weather be cold
Or whether the weather be hot,
We'll weather the weather
Whatever the weather,
Whether we like it or not. 

http://www.travelandleisure.com/trip-ideas/nature-travel/why-do-we-have-seasons   

Listen to these poems, choose one and learn it by heart imitating the speaker's intonation:

Summer Sun by R.L.Stevenson or here and the poem.
The Wind by R.L.Stevenson or another link to mp3 and the text.
Daffodils by  W.Wordsworth and the text with another recording.
The Rainy Day by H.W. Longfellow or this version. (NEC p. 124)
Snowflakes by H.W. Longfellow. (NEC p. 124)

                                         

Linking:

• linking /w/
• linking /j/
• linking /j/ and /w/ together
• linking /r/ 
• Consonant-vowel linking (practice it)
• Find out when intrusive /r/ is used.
• What allophones does /l/ have? Find out.
• When is /h/ not phonounced?

NEC p.115 ex.1
Recording of the dialogues p. 116 ex.3.
Dialogue (free time).
NEC p. 156 ex. 32.

1st year Live and Learn

Here are the books you'll need for the classes.
Make sure you have all of them: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 .

A nice quiet afternoon  (track 038).
Letters to the editor (track 043).
Peter Parker (track 051).

You can download some texts with the marks here.
Learn more about syllables.

Self-study 2.1 (deadline 28.03)

Interactive resources to practice different aspects of your pronunciation can be found on

• http://www.cambridge.org/elt/resources/skills/interactive/pron_animations/index.htm
• https://www.oxfordonlineenglish.com/free-english-pronunciation-lessons?utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F

2nd year Cities and countries

You will find a variety of materials on the UK here.
Below I'm going to post links to videos and texts on the topic:

• Climate and geography of the UK
• UK vs Great Britain?
• Four nations
• Read about politics in the UK
• Interactive map of Royal Britain
• Countryside is Great (part 1)
• Countryside is Great (part 2)
• Heritage is Great (part 1)
• Heritage is Great (part 2)
• How London has changed over the years

An online quiz on London sights

Materials related to the USA are here. 

US national parks

Scenic views

Yosemite

the Smoky Mountains

Grand Canyon

Yellowstone

Washington DC

Take a holiday walk through Washington

New York City

New York quiz.

Australia and New Zealand

Materials to talk about Australia and New Zealand.

The map of Australia and other useful info.
Crossword on Australia.
Interesting facts.
Read about Sydney's history.

Link to an example of an animal fact file.
Here's the map of New Zealand.

Check your knowledge of different countries with these online quizzes.
Self-study (cities and countries) (deadline 4.04).
Materials related to Ukraine.

Materials for phonetics are in this folder.
Videos on phonetics are listed below:

• plosives
• assimilation of /t/ before /p/
• assimilation of /d/ before /g/ or /k/
• assimilation of /d/ before /b/
• assimilation of /t/ followed by /k/
• gemination /t/
• assimilation of /s/
• gemination of /s/

          Betty Batter bought some butter but, said she, the butter's bitter.
          If I put it in my batter, it will make my batter bitter.
          But a bit of better butter will make my bitter batter better.
          So she bought some better butter, better than the bitter butter,
          Put it in her bitter batter, made her bitter batter better.
          So’t was better Betty Batter bought some better butter.

Sarah sitting in her Chevrolet, 
All she does is sits and shifts, 
All she does is sits and shifts.

And this is the link to writing materials. 

"How to" articles: instructions and examples

1st year Food

Reading tasks can be reached here.

Watch Alfred Hitchcock's film Lamb to the Slaughter.

These online tasks will help you learn the words for food.

1. food
2. fruit
3. vegetables
4. vegetables 2
5. meat and fish
6. drinks
7. meals and cooking
8. restaurants

Practice reading transcription and learn the words.

1. fruit

2. vegetables

Online exercises to practice some aspects of pronunciation:

1. -ed ending 
2. -(e)s ending
3. letter 'g'
4. letter 'o' and one more test
5. letter 'a'
6. 'th'

Credit questions!

Watch these videos to learn more about Christmas traditions.