Pronunciation Teaching for teachers in Gaza

Pronunciation Teaching for teachers in Gaza

From October 4th - 13th, 2020, a group of volunteer teachers came together to provide support on Zoom to upskill 40+ teachers so their children's education could continue from their homes. The training covered how to use Zoom, as well as English speaking, writing, storytelling, reading, vocabulary, and so on.

I was delighted to run a session on Pronunciation, a new but key competency for many. In my training session, I covered the importance of intelligibility (being understood) in our global world.

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Are you intelligible? Did you mean ‘cheap’ or ‘sheep’, ‘live’ or ‘leave’, ‘draft’ or ‘drought,’ ‘heart’ or ‘art’?

Are you intelligible? Did you mean ‘cheap’ or ‘sheep’, ‘live’ or ‘leave’, ‘draft’ or ‘drought,’ ‘heart’ or ‘art’?

How often have you listened to non-native speakers of your own language and wondered what they said, not because they used the wrong words but because the way they spoke was unintelligible? Now picture today’s business world, full of non-native speakers of English all trying to understand each other.

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