A WORKSHOP ON PHONETICS

1. MINISTERY OF NATIONAL EDUCATION
INSPECTORATE OF ENGLISH FOR MIDDLE SCHOOLS
DISTRICT OF BEJAIA
G1: November 24th
/25th/26th, 2007
G2: December
1st/2nd
/3rd, 2007
G3: December
8th/9th/10th, 2007
2007
§§§ PROBLEMS IN
PRONUNCIATION §§§
TRAINING SEMINAR OF
ENGLISH LYCEE DEBBIH
THE INSPECTOR : MR. B.BENDERRADJI
CONTENTS :
 Problems in
pronunciation
 Letters and
sounds
 The basic sound
of English
 Practice
phonemes
 Homographs and
homophones
 English as she
spoke
 How an inflection is
pronounced
 /s/,/z/ ,/iz/,/t/,/d/,
/id/.
 Weak and strong
forms
 Stress pattern
 Intonation/types:
rising and falling
 Silent letters
 Why the English
language is hard to
learn
 Word list stress
M I D D L E S C H O O L : B O U N Z O U Z O U B I R

50. CONTRATIONS :
I’m /aim/
I’ve/aiv/
I’ll/ail/
I’d/aid/
You’re/juə/
You’ve/ju:v/
You’ll/ju:l/
You’d/ju:d/
He’s/hi:z/
He’ll/hi:l/
He’d/hi:d/
She’s/ʃɪ:ʑ/
She’ll/ʃɪ:ɭ/

51. She’d/ʃɪ:ɗ/
It’s/its/
It’ll/itl/
We’re/wiə/
We’ve/wi:v/
We’ll/wi:l/
They’re/ðeiə/
They’ve/ðeiv/
They’ll/ðeil/
They’d/ðeid/