English pronunciation special course

The goal of mastering the discipline

The skills you get

• On completion of the course, students should be able to demonstrate high level of language proficiency and confidence to speak in a variety of contexts
• • to produce oral presentations and reports aiming to clearly communicate the ideas of source texts
• • to properly employ the basic and specific rules of English pronunciation and intonation for communicating in everyday, business and professional contexts
• • to improve listening skills to comprehend English language easily in different situations
• • to develop pronunciation, intonation, listening skills and fluency to overcome the language barrier
• • to interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity discussing the area of expertise

Topics covered

• Getting started Accents (1 ): Varieties of English Accents (2): English as an international language; Finding out about pronunciation; The international phonetic alphabet; Difficult sounds of English Word stress; Word stress within sentences; Contrasting operative and inoperative words
• Pronunciation in conversation; Pronunciation in formal settings; Intonation in telling, asking and answering; Intonation in managing conversation; Pronunciation in formal settings; Marking a business speech

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