TIPS on Learning English: Improving your English Pronunciation

Learn how to pronounce English correctly on OUP website! And/or have a look at some resources for ESL learners:

• New Headway Pronunciation Course. Available at four levels – Elementary, Pre-Intermediate, Intermediate, and Upper-Intermediate – this course improves students’ listening and speaking through extra training in pronunciation. 
• Ship or sheep?: introducing English pronunciation. Available at Lingue 'Melchiori' Library (424 BAK.SHI)

Lesson 15 [Tue., 25th March 2014]

Topics discussed UNIT 7
Vocabulary: abstract nouns (p82), other ways of saying funny (p84)
Grammar: countable & uncountable nouns (p83), wish (p85)

Homework for Tue., 1st April 2014

• Study your notes.
• Study «Grammar Focus» Unit 7 (page 144) and do #3-5 on page 145 on a separate sheet of paper.
• Do #1-2 (Grammar) and #1-3 (Vocabulary) on page 89.

Lesson 14 [Tue., 18th March 2014]

Topics discussed UNIT 7
Vocabulary: inexact numbers (p79), wordbuilding: trade (p81)
Grammar: relative clauses (pp78,81)

Homework for Tue., 25th March 2014

• Study your notes.
• Study «Grammar Focus» Unit 7 (page 144) and do #1-2 on page 145 on a separate sheet of paper.
• Do #1-3 (Reading) on page 87.

Lesson 13 [Tue., 11th March 2014]

Topics discussed UNIT 6
Vocabulary: ways of speaking (p70), listen & hear (p70), electronic equipment (p72)
Grammar: reported speech (pp67,73)

Homework for Tue., 18th March 2014

• Study your notes.
• Study «Grammar Focus» Unit 6 (page 142) and do #5-7 on page 142 on a separate sheet of paper.
• Do #1-3 (Grammar) and #1-2 (Vocabulary) on page 77.

Lesson 12 [Tue., 4th March 2014]

Topics discussed UNIT 6
Vocabulary: take (p66), colors and shapes (p69)
Grammar: passive voice (p67), articles (p69)

Homework for Tue., 11th March 2014

• Study your notes. 
• Study «Grammar Focus» Unit 6 (page 142) and do #1-4 on page 143 on a separate sheet of paper.

Lesson 11 [Tue., 25th February 2014]

Topics discussed UNIT 5

Vocabulary: education compound nouns (p58), control (p58), phrasal verbs with up (p60)

Grammar: present perfect tenses (p59), separable phrasal verbs (p61)

Homework for Tue., 4th March 2014

• Study your notes.
• Study «Grammar Focus» Unit 5 (page 140) and do #3-4 on page 141 on a separate sheet of paper.
• Do # Grammar and Vocabulary on page 65.