Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Listening: visual descriptions: Forensic Artist Melissa Cooper and Dove commercial
Watch these videos and focus your attention on 1) the words related to visual descriptions which you recognize from what we have studied; 2) new words, sounds, that you think you can deduct the meaning (signification). Write them down and then check.
1) Forensic Artist Melissa Cooper
2) How women see themselves - Dove commercial
Thursday, May 8, 2014
Reflections on Learning Languages: How to learn any language in six months.
This post is part of the different subjects I will be posting regularly so that we can improve ourselves as language professionals of the XXI century. Together with "Having Fun", "Tech Tips", videos on learning a foreign language will complement our day to day activities. I hope you all enjoy!
TechTips: LanSchool-Basic
I thought it would be nice for you to get to know better the software we used during our last classes, enjoy learning! For the ones who did not have classes with me, it is also worth to learn about tools that facilitates our lives as teachers, professors, instructors, so be welcomed as well!
http://www.lanschool.com/lanschool_lite
http://www.lanschool.com/lanschool_lite
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
Tech tips on pronunciation practice
This is a program for displaying a real time fundamental frequency track for a speech signal. With RTPITCH you can monitor the waveform and pitch of speech sounds being played into the computer's microphone or line input ports.
Download and Installation
SFS/RTPITCH is only available by anonymous FTP from:
Download the file called rtpitch1dd.exe into a temporary directory. Then find and run the file to unpack and install.
This is the new British Council phonemic chart. Help your students hear the sounds of English by clicking on the symbols below. Click on the top right hand corner of each symbol to hear sample words including the sounds.
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