The document provides an overview of online resources and activities for practicing English pronunciation, listening, and speaking skills. It emphasizes the importance of correct pronunciation for understanding and offers various platforms such as Voice of America and TED Talks for listening practice. Additionally, it suggests interactive activities like recording messages and creative tasks to enhance student engagement in speaking practice.

1. PRACTICING PRONUNCIATION
AND LISTENING ONLINE
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claudio.fleury@gmail.com
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2. OVERVIEW
• PRONUNCIATION and LISTENING
• PRACTICING LISTENING ONLINE
• PRACTICING PRONUNCIATION ONLINE
• PRACTICING SPEAKING ONLINE
• SUGGESTED SPEAKING ACTIVITIES

3. PRONUNCIATION and LISTENING
- Students will not be able to understand a word if
they cannot pronounce it correctly.
(Gilbert 1984; Nooteboom 1983)
- Students will not be able to pronounce a word
correctly if they cannot differentiate the sounds
they hear. Gilbert, J. (1984). Clear Speech. Pronunciation and
Listening Comprehension in
(Gilbert, 1984; Nooteboom, 1983) American English. Student’s Book. Cambridge: CUP.
Nooteboom, S. (1983). ‘Is speech production
controlled by speech perception?’ Van den
- Students need autonomy. Broecke et al. (eds.), Sound structure, Studies for
Antonie Cohen, Dordrecht:
(Hismanoglu 2004) Foris, p.p: 183-94.

4. PRACTICING LISTENING ONLINE
• We can help students become (semi-)
autonomous learners

5. PRACTICING LISTENING ONLINE
• VOICE OF
AMERICA -
http://www.voanews.
com/learningenglish/
home/
– Captioned
videos
– Audioscripts
– Slower speed

6. PRACTICING LISTENING ONLINE
• ELLLO -
http://www.elllo.org/index.htm
– Different levels
– Accents
– Download audio
– vocabulary

7. PRACTICING LISTENING ONLINE
• WOICES -
http://woices.com/
– Authentic
recordings
– Accents
– culture

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

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

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

11. PRACTICING LISTENING ONLINE
• YOUTUBE
• VIMEO
• VIDEOJUG

12. PRACTICING PRONUNCIATION ONLINE
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1jMxRki4
mM

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

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

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

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

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

18. PRACTICING SPEAKING ONLINE

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

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

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

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

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

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

25. SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

37. IDEAS? QUESTIONS? SUGGESTIONS?

38. THANK YOU!
PRACTICING PRONUNCIATION
AND LISTENING ONLINE
@claudiofleury
claudio.fleury@gmail.com
eflpresentations.pbworks.com
CALL-IS Electronic Village EV Fairs
March 2013 TESOL