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1. ASMA SAEED

3. Advanced Communication Skills, (2012)
MTD Training Bookboon.com ISBN 978-
87-7681-661-2

4. Communication Skill
 What is Communication?
 How do we Communicate?
 What is a Skill?
 Language Skills
 Types of Communication
 Styles of Communication
 The Communication Cycle
 Communication in Workplace

5. PHONETICS

6. The English Speech sounds
LETTERS VS SPEECH SOUNDS

7. PHONETICS
The study of phonetics can be divided into three main
branches.
 Articulatory phonetics: (How sounds are produced?)
 Acoustic phonetics: (How sounds are transmitted?)
 Auditory phonetics: (How sounds are received?)

9. The speech organs
 Tongue (tip/blade/front/ middle/back/root)
 Lips (upper &lower)
 Teeth (upper &lower)
 Alveolar Ridge (teeth-ridge)
 Hard Palate
 Soft Palate (Velum)
 Oral Cavity
 Nasal Cavity
 Uvula
 Epiglottis
 Pharynx

10. Cont.

11. Cont.
Consonants: the sounds in the production of which
there is an obstruction of the air- stream at some point
of the vocal tract .
Vowels: the sounds in the production of which no
articulators come very close together and the air-
stream passes through the vocal tract without
obstruction.

13. /b/
INITIAL POSITION MIDDLE POSITION FINAL POSITION

14. /p/

15. /m/

16. /f/

17. /v/

18. /t/

19. /d/

20. /s/

21. /z/

22. /z/

23. /tʃ/

24. /dʒ/

26. /b/

27. /v/

28. /s/

29. /t/

30. /tʃ/

31. /dʒ/