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English Pronunciation Resources- For All

We offer lots of phonetic and pronunciation exercises here for free online use and also as printable classroom material. Look at this phonetic video for example.

This page contains exercises for English pronunciation, phonetics, phonology and intonation. There are printable exercises for teachers and self-grading exercises for use online.

Vowel Sounds Self-Grading Pronunciation Exercises

• Vowel Sounds multiple choice quiz - Learn and practice English vowels
• Double vowel sounds - Diphthongs Quiz - "EI" sound as in GAME
• Double vowel sounds - Diphthongs Quiz - "AI" sound as in FLY
• Double vowel sounds - Diphthongs Quiz - "OI" sound as in BOY
• Double Vowel Sounds -Diphthongs Test - All Diphthongs hotspot quiz
• Single Vowel Sounds self-test
• Phonetic multiple choice vowel exercise using Audio
• Regular Past simple ending sounds- Pronounce the endings of past simple words correctly.
• Phonetics quiz: Diphthongs symbols exercise-English pronunciation.
• English Intonation exercise: A multiple choice quiz with audio recordings to practice pronunciation and intonation in expressing feelings.
• Pronunciation and word stress Quiz. Word stress in another challenging part of pronunciation in English Learning. Here is a quiz to give you some practice.
• Pronunciation and word stress: English phonetics stress pattern quiz.
• Odd word out: Choose the word that does not rhyme with the others. An exercise about sounds of English words.

Phonetic Sounds Video Lessons - IPA

• Vowel Sounds Video Lesson - Learn vowel sounds
• Consonant Video Lesson 1 - Learn consonat sounds
• Consonant Video Lesson 2 - Learn consonat sounds

Homonyms Self-Test Exercise

• Homonyms Interactive Crossword puzzle - Ex. Deer and Dear

Phonetic Teaching : Printable Worksheets

• Phonetic Quizzes as worksheets to print
• Phonetic Crossword puzzles
• Phonetic Board Game using IPA Decoding
• Phonetic Charts and Flash Cards

Phonetic Videos , Mp3, Intonation & Ebooks

• Phonetic Vowel Sounds Video lesson- Learn phonetic vowels IPA with video slides
• Phonetic Mp3 Audio book- pdf vowel sounds + mp3 attachment
• Phonetic vowel Sounds Mp3 Download for ipod, PCs & mp3 player users
• Software- Phonetic input software- Quickly and Easily type in Phonetic symbols in word documents

• Kids& Beginner Course Lessons - Lessons by courses

  Course 1 Lessons

  Unit  intro – Alphabet & Phonics Resources. 

  Aim: Teach letters of the alphabet

  Unit   1 – Greetings - Hello

  Aim: Teach basic greetings – Hello, Hi, Goodbye.

  Unit   2 – What’s your name?

  Aim: To teach kids how to say their names.

  Unit   3 – How old are you?

  Aim: Teach kids how to say their age and  learn numbers 1 to 5.

  Unit   4 – Numbers – How many?

  Aim: Teach kids how to count from 1 to 10.

  Unit   5 A – Colours – What colour is it?

  Aim: Teach kids how to describe things through colours.

  Unit 5 B - Colours Vocabulary

  Aim: Teach colours vocabulary

  Unit 5 C - Green Monster Colours Lesson

  Aim: Teach colours through a colours songs

  Unit   6 – Fruits – I like apples.

  Aim: Teach kids names of fruits and how to express likes.

  Unit  7 – Body – I have a head.

  Aim: Teach kids parts of the body.

  Unit  8–  Actions  – I can, I can’t.

  Aim: Teach kids how to express ability using simple action verbs.

  Course 2 Lessons

  Unit  1 – Animals – Farms Animals. 

  Aim: Teach students how to express preference by using vocabulary related to farm animals.

  Unit   2 – Family Members

  Aim: Teach words and expressions used when describing family.

  Unit  3 – School bag

  Aim: To teach words and expressions related to classroom items.

  Unit   4 – Actions – Can and Can’t  

  Aim: Teach action verbs

  Unit   5 – Shapes & Sizes

  Aim: Teach various shapes and adjectives to describe size.

  Unit   6 – Demonstrative Pronouns – This/That/These/Those

  Aim: Teach  singular and plurals of nouns and demonstrative pronouns.

  Unit   7 – Numbers – 10 to 100

  Aim: Teach numbers 10 to 100 and pronunciation differences between long and short vowels.

  Unit  8 – Toys – Where is it?

  Aim: Teach  words and expressions related to toys and to ask where things are.

  Unit  9 –  Days of the week and weekly activities

  Aim: Teach days of the week and some things we do weekly.

  Unit 10 -   Weather – What’s the weather like?

  Aim: Teach students how to ask about the weather and describe it.

  Unit 11 -   Food – What do you want to eat

  Aim: Teach students about the things we eat and express want

  Course 3 Lessons

  Unit  1 – Pets : Why do you like dogs?

  Aim: Teach  names of pets and give a brief description of pets using personality adjectives.

  Unit   2a – Time – What time is it?

  Aim: Teach students how to tell the time and also how to talk about daily routines.

  Unit   2b – Time – What time is it?

  Aim: Teach students how to tell the time using quarter to/past/ Half past etc.

  Unit   3 – Months & birthdays – When is your birthday?

  Aim: Teach students months of the year and how to tell dates using months and ordinal numbers.

  Unit   4 – Jobs – What people do.

  Aim: To teach kids how to describe jobs using action verbs.

  Unit  5  – Actions – What are you doing?

  Aim: Students will learn how to describe actions in progress using the present progressive.

  Unit   6 – Transport – How do you come to school?

  Aim: Teach students different means of transport and talk about going around.

  Unit   7 – Clothes – What are you wearing today?

  Aim: To learn to describe what someone is wearing.

  Unit   8 –  Where is it? – At home

  Aim: Teach kids prepositions of place, alongside rooms and things at home.

  Unit  9a – Vegetables – How much are the carrots?

  Aim: Teach kids vegetable vocabulary and how to go shopping for veggies.

  Unit  9b – Vegetables – Extra Vegetable Vocabulary lesson - Cauliflower, broccoli etc.

  Aim: Teach students extra vegetable vocabulary.

  Unit  10 –  Weather  and clothes  - Put on your sunglasses.

  Aim: Teach kids how to talk about clothes relative to the weather.

  Unit 11 -  Zoo – What does a panda look like?

  Aim: To teach students how to describe zoo animals by what they eat and look like.