Effective use of Vocabulary and Pronunciation for powerful speaking

1. EFFECTIVE USE OF
VOCABULARY AND PRONUNCIATION
FOR POWERFUL SPEAKING
Dr.P.Rathna
Associate professor of English
BSA Crescent Institute of Science and
Technology
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2. ENGLISH – LINGUA FRANCA
• Rich in vocabulary - More than millions of
words
• Unique feature to absorb, adopt and anglicise
words from other languages.
• It has words from almost all world languages,
Greek, Latin, German, French, Spanish,
Sanskrit, Hindi, Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil etc.
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3. English is Unique
• Flexible and Dynamic and constantly evolving.
• Every year more than 400O words are added
to the oxford English dictionary.
• With scientific inventions and technology
development, English language also grows
exponentially.
• SELFIE (2013)
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4. Discrepancy between Spelling and
Pronunciation
A
APPLE
ART
AEROPLANE
ACCEPT
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5. Discrepancy between Spelling and
Pronunciation
•Same
Spelling -
Different
Pronunciati
on
•Same
Pronunciat
ion -
Different
Spellings
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6. Same Spelling –
Different Pronunciation
Résumé
(N)
Resume
(V)
Conduct
(N)
Conduct
(V)
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7. Same Pronunciation –
Different Spellings
WRITE SUITE BOW DEAR
BY BYE BOUGH DEER TWO
RITE TO BUY TOO SWEET
RIGHT
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8. Same Sound - Different Spellings
ai aisle
ei height, neither
Eye eye
i lime, site, silence
ie die, lie
uy buy, guy
y try, my, shy
Ye bye, dye
hy rhyme
Igh sigh, thigh
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9. Same Sound - Different Spellings
F • fit, leaf, soft, after
FF •offer, affair, stiff
UGH •Laughter, cough, rough
PH •Photo, trophy, graph
U •lieutenant
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10. Same Spelling– Different Sounds
• GH – GHOST
• GH – ROUGH
• GH - FIGHT
THOUGHT
• CH – CHAIR
• CH –
CHARACTER
• CH –
CHIVALRY
NICHE
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11. LETTERS PRESENT-SOUND ABSENT
UMPTEEN WORDS
• KNIFE
• KNOW
• PSYCHOLOGY
• LISTEN
• WRITE
• FIGHT
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12. SOUND PRESENT – LETTERS ABSENT
• NATURE -CH
• RIGHTEOUS – CH
• MACHINE – SH
• COUGH – F
• CUBE – Q
• ONE – W
• SUCCESS - K
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13. PUZZLING WORDS
• Don’t PARK near the PARK
• I have LEARNED a lot from
many LEARNED people
• I had a CENT and got some
SCENT and SENT it to my
uncle.
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14. PRONUNCIATION DIFFICULTIES
• Rendezvous
• Rapport
• Debris
• Environment
• Entrepreneur
• Colonel
• Queue
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15. VOCABULARY = IQ
Norman Lewis
• Educational research has discovered
that your I.Q. is intimately related to
your vocabulary.
• Take a standard vocabulary test and
then an intelligent test – the results in
both will be substantially the same.
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16. Vocabulary SUCCESS
Norman Lewis
success in attaining your
educational goals
success in moving ahead
in your business or
professional career
Success in personal Life
success in achieving your
intellectual potential.
More
vocabulary
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17. SAME WORD WITH DIFFERENT
MEANINGS
• TELL- inform, let know, notify, apprise, make aware,
mention something to, acquaint with, advise, put in the
picture, brief, fill in, break the news to; alert, warn,
forewarn; speak, utter, say, voice, state, declare;
• communicate, make known, impart, divulge, announce,
proclaim, broadcast;
• relate, recount, narrate, give an account of, set forth,
unfold, retail, report, chronicle, recite, rehearse,
describe, portray, sketch, delineate, depict, paint, weave,
spin, reveal, show, be/give evidence of, disclose, indicate,
convey, signify;
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18. NEED FOR APPROPRIATE WORDS
• I told my friends about the need for wearing
helmet.
• I created awareness among my friends about
the need for wearing helmet.
• He told his ideas before the panel.
• He expressed his ideas before the panel
• We need to tell our message clearly.
• We need to communicate our message clearly
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19. SAME WORD WITH DIFFERENT
MEANINGS
• RUN – nearly 40 different
meanings as verb
• nearly 30 different meanings as
noun
• In addition Phrasal verbs and
idioms
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20. ACTION PLAN - KNOW THYSELF
“I am the wisest man
alive, for I know one
thing, and that is that I
know nothing.”
~Socrates
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21. How to improve Communication
Skills?
Input
Good
ingrdients
COOK
Output
Delicious
Food
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22. How to improve Communication
Skills?
Input
Reading &
Listening
Process
Apply
Practice
Output
Speaking &
Writing
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23. GUESS MEANING FROM CONTEXT
ONUS
The onus is on us to improve our communication skills
CONVICTION
We should have conviction that we can improve our
communication skills
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24. GET, SET, GO
• You CAN improve your vocabulary – faster and
more easily than you think
• SET Realistic Goals
• Starting Trouble, But DO NOT GIVE UP
• Make it a Habit
• Make learning a Fun
• Practice, Practice, Practice
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25. •Plethora of resources
•Handy – Ready to use
•Free Mobile apps
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26. UNSCRAMBLE
talent is hidden in latent
Dig out
latent
talent
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27. SUCCESS MANTRA
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28. B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and
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