This document outlines a training seminar on problems in pronunciation for English teachers at the Lycee Debbih middle school. The seminar, led by inspector Mr. B. Benderradji, will cover topics like letters and sounds, basic English phonemes, homographs and homophones, stress patterns, intonation, silent letters, and challenges of the English language. It provides a schedule for the seminar over three dates in November and December 2007 and a list of common contractions and their pronunciations.

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/