sábado, 15 de junio de 2013

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English can be Funny
A brief guide to teach and to learn English

In this document you can find some activities and pieces of advice that could help students and teacher to interact in other language such as English.

Juan David Ortiz
Colombian National and Pedagogic University













International Phonetic Alphabet’s chart




/b/
ball - taboo - rib
/s/  
soap - assume - miss
/d/
deer - radar - bleed
/ʃ/
shoes - wishing - wash
/g/
goose - ago - flag
   /h/
happy - greyhound
/p/
pot - happy - top
/ʤ/
job - badger - cage
/t/
tell - attack - loot
/ʧ/  
chop - catcher - watch
  /k/
cow - peeking - wake
/m/
mask - calm
/v/
voice - waiver - above
 /n/
now - pink
/ð/
that - wither - smooth
 /ŋ/
singer - ring
/z/
zipper - buzzer - nose
/l/
late - balloon - fall
 /ʒ/
vision - beige
 /r/
rope - barroom - bar
  /f/
food - lifetime - thief
 /w/
wish - awhile
  /θ/  
thing - toothache - with
 /j/
yellow - opinion






















Vowels



front
vowels
central
vowels
back
vowels
/i:/
 /ɪ/
 /ʌ/
/ə/ 
/u:/ 
/ʊ/
/E/ 
/e/
/ɜ:/
/ə/ʳ
/o:/
   /ɔ/
/æ/ 
/a/


/ɑ:/









diphthongs

 /aɪ/
/aʊ/
   /ɔɪ/
   



English course

8 classes

Alphabet, colors, cardinal and ordinal numbers

Parts of the house, city and family

Prepositions, giving directions and what time is it?

Describing people pronouns and adjectives.

Simple present tense (use of the verb to be structure)

Simple present tense (use of the other verbs structure)

Simple present progressive

Final exam and final project presentation