tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59638569724176333392024-02-20T11:33:35.297+01:00Alpozo's Phonetic BlogLearning and Teaching Phonetics Through SongsAna López Pozohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01961355790962055702noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5963856972417633339.post-80776331732376117622023-10-22T18:35:00.000+02:002023-10-25T12:28:03.179+02:00PLOSIVE STORY /p/ /b/ /t/ /d/ /k/ /g/
A stop, plosive, or occlusive is a consonant sound produced by stopping the airflow in the vocal tract.
Use the consonant chart on the right to hear and repeat each one of these plosive consonant phonemes /p/ /b/ /t/ /d/ /k/ /g/ in isolation as many times as you need to. To help you produce the sounds correctly, place a sheet of paper in front of you, you will probably notice that the Ana López Pozohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01961355790962055702noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5963856972417633339.post-84690212230667001692023-10-01T00:44:00.000+02:002023-10-04T14:18:23.862+02:00VIVA LA VI DA. VOWELS /iː/ /ɪ/ /ʊ/ /uː/ /e/ /ɜː/ /ɔː/ /æ/ /ʌ/ /ɑː/ /ɒ/This post has been designed principally for Spanish speakers, but it can also be useful for other nationalities by skipping the first activity and doing the rest.
There are 46 sounds in the English sound system, 22 of which are vowel sounds. Compare this with Spanish, which has 5 vowel sounds, none of which are equivalent to any vowel sound in English. English vowels are difficult to Ana López Pozohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01961355790962055702noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5963856972417633339.post-87752778837217423012023-04-23T18:27:00.000+02:002023-04-26T15:58:25.245+02:00MORNING SUN. LONG VOWELS /ɑ:/ /ɜ:/ /ɪ:/ /ɔ:/ /u:/
Listen to British singer Robbie William's song Morning sun. As you are listening, try to locate the words containing long vowel sounds /ɑ:/ /ɜ:/ /i:/ /ɔ:/ /u:/
Then do the crossword exercise with the transcribed words given. The words are taken from the song lyrics. To see the words, scroll down the crossword bar.
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Listen now to this version with lyrics.
More on long vowel Ana López Pozohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01961355790962055702noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5963856972417633339.post-90680853875978194092023-03-20T12:25:00.000+01:002023-03-22T12:02:34.963+01:00IF YOU WERE A SAILBOAT. CONDITIONAL SONG. Vowels and diphthongs
The song If you were a sailboat composed and interpreted by the Georgian-British singer, songwriter and musician Katie Melua, will help us this time to sail through vowels /ɪ/ /ɪː/ /ʌ/ /ɑː/ /ɒ/ /ɔ:/ /ʊ/ /uː/, diphthongs /aɪ/ /eɪ/ /aʊ/ and conditional sentences.
This post has been inspired by the work of the English teacherAna López Pozohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01961355790962055702noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5963856972417633339.post-60860020460893232442023-03-08T13:02:00.000+01:002023-03-08T15:54:53.943+01:00CHASING PIRATES. DIPHTHONGS /eɪ/ /aɪ/ /əʊ/ /aʊ/Norah Jones' swirling singing will, this time, take us into the slippery world of some diphthongs /eɪ/ /aɪ/ /əʊ/ /aʊ/ (phonemically analyzed as a sequence of a semivowel and a monophthong) with her song Chasing pirates.
WARNING: don’t confuse /əʊ/ and /aʊ/ (they are often mixed up!). Click first on the phonetic chart on the right to hear the difference.
I have to admit I chose this song Ana López Pozohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01961355790962055702noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5963856972417633339.post-52300831701911331612023-01-15T11:45:00.000+01:002023-01-16T20:03:02.549+01:00FRICATIVE LOVE. SHE /f/ /v/ /θ/ /ð/ /s/ /z/ /ʃ/ /ʒ/ /h/ /r/Fricative consonants are produced by forcing air through a narrow channel made by placing two articulators close together which produces friction, this air flow is called frication. Click on each of these fricative consonants /f/ /v/ /θ/ /ð/ /s/ /z/ /ʃ/ /ʒ/ /h/ /r/ in the chart on the right and repeat these sounds as many times as you need to.The fricative song She, well-known thanks to the filmAna López Pozohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01961355790962055702noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5963856972417633339.post-3905787934380584872022-11-20T14:39:00.000+01:002022-11-23T14:02:30.916+01:00DELILAH- SIMPLE PASTAna López Pozohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01961355790962055702noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5963856972417633339.post-33030231724482914662021-12-19T13:54:00.000+01:002021-12-20T13:17:25.131+01:00DO THEY KNOW IT'S CHRISTMAS (FEED THE WORLD)
This song was written by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure in reaction to television reports of the 1983–85 famine in Ethiopia. It was first recorded in 1984 by Band Aid , a group of British and Irish singers who got together to raise money for Ethiopia. Diphthong sounds are exploited this time in this song /aɪ/ /eɪ/ /əʊ/ /ɪə/ /ɒɪ/.&Ana López Pozohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01961355790962055702noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5963856972417633339.post-5011350501988483492020-03-01T00:04:00.001+01:002020-11-23T13:53:13.888+01:00PAST OR PRESENT? /s/, /d/ or /t/? RUN BABY RUNHere's a song, Run Baby Run, by Sheryl Crow to help you identify present and past verb forms from the pronunciation of final consonants /s/, /z/, /d/ or /t/. Also to homage a good friend.
Listen to the song and fill in the gaps with the correct verb form, present or past, according to what you hear. Click first onAna López Pozohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01961355790962055702noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5963856972417633339.post-84565375662252210612020-02-23T18:11:00.000+01:002020-02-24T14:17:29.946+01:00SING A SONGAna López Pozohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01961355790962055702noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5963856972417633339.post-62476884733047074062019-03-16T23:04:00.001+01:002021-03-15T11:55:16.123+01:00VIRTUAL VISIT TO DUBLIN
Are you one of those enjoying a bit of peace and quiet at home while others burn kilometres on the road?
Not to worry, imagination can take you further if you start walking over the Ha'penny Bridge in Dublin, in the photo, not a penny spent!.
Here's a TREASURE HUNT activity about Dublin for you. Click here and follow the instructions proposed in the activity. Send your answers to the link 'Ana López Pozohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01961355790962055702noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5963856972417633339.post-51094269911011867212016-07-29T13:30:00.005+02:002017-01-18T10:19:57.641+01:00LAMH, LAMH EILE - A Song in Irish (parts of the body)From working inside the walls of Trinity College Dublin, some Irish words were heard.
Would you like to learn a few Gaelic words and how to pronounce them?
All a challenge!
Have a guess on how to pronounce these Irish words, some parts of the body. Choose the right phonetic transcription for every word.
Listen to this song in Irish and touch the parts of the Ana López Pozohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01961355790962055702noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5963856972417633339.post-43397645363005215912015-04-09T20:38:00.001+02:002020-03-02T16:04:54.092+01:00PURE AND SIMPLEListen to Pure by Liverpool band, The Lightning Seeds, to help you identify some vowel and diphthong sounds /ɑː/ /e/ /ɪː/ /ɪ/ /əʊ/ /aɪ/ and /uː/ and also to celebrate the birth of a new pure and growing webpage Habla Idiomas EOI intended to gather and share information and material for teachers and students at the State &Ana López Pozohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01961355790962055702noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5963856972417633339.post-10791251062687488222013-09-24T12:55:00.000+02:002017-01-14T10:05:50.124+01:00VOWELS - SPLITTERHi there. Be ready to sooth your ears and read some phonetic transcription to identify the vowel sounds /ɑː/ /æ/ /ʌ/ /e/ /ɜː/ /ɪ/ /iː/ /ɒ/ /ɔː/ /ʊ/ /uː/ through the lyrics of the song Splitter by Calexico transcribed phonetically with the programme PhoTransEdit.
Listen to the song and Ana López Pozohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01961355790962055702noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5963856972417633339.post-22939865039643942562012-04-20T16:16:00.000+02:002017-01-14T10:18:57.656+01:00GLOTTAL STOP /ʔ/ AND LITTLEST THINGS
(By Rosa Maté Ibáñez and Ana López Pozo)
It's the little things that make the difference.
In this song, Littlest Things by Lilly Allen (made popular by the viral power of the net), you can learn to identify and practice glottal stop, represented in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ʔ/. This is produced by obstructing the airflow in the vocal tract. In certain positions Ana López Pozohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01961355790962055702noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5963856972417633339.post-13644427002868444062011-11-30T14:11:00.276+01:002017-01-14T18:00:55.527+01:00COMMUNICATION. Linking consonants to vowels
Not understanding can be a good reason to disconnect, both in daily communication and in life.
The clues in the gap- fill exercise for this song, Communication by the Cardigans, can help you recognise linking features of connecting consonants to vowels and identify flap or tap t, /ɾ/, in order to understand speech better, so that you don't have to Ana López Pozohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01961355790962055702noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5963856972417633339.post-36138065133368847892011-10-28T11:17:00.007+02:002017-01-14T10:21:30.864+01:00THE LOGICAL SONG FOR SYLLABIC CONSONANTS
This post is dedicated to all those Spanish State Teachers, colleagues of mine, who are suffering the consequences of the regional governments education cutbacks in various Spanish Communities and to all those thousands of now unemployed teachers who have not been contracted by these regional governments in order to transfer the public money, thus saved, to Private Ana López Pozohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01961355790962055702noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5963856972417633339.post-76285681659584458602010-12-07T13:15:00.035+01:002017-01-15T13:37:17.625+01:00DECEMBER /ɪ/ /iː/ /ʌ/ /əʊ/
Inspiring month for a rainy song, December by Norah Jones. The front vowels /ɪ/ /iː/and central vowel and diphthong /ʌ/ /əʊ/ mix harmonically in this almost syllabic song sung with nearly every syllable distinctly pronounced.
Listen to the song and complete the gap fill activity using the words in the box and the clues given in the ? buttons.
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Here's a version withAna López Pozohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01961355790962055702noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5963856972417633339.post-66651663378399101592010-11-23T18:35:00.020+01:002017-01-15T14:04:28.210+01:00THINK OF ME /θɪŋkˈəvˌmi:/
A long awaited post for those who asked for a song rich in the contrasting front-close vowels /i:/ and /ɪ/ and the diphthong /aɪ/. Andrew LLoyd Webber's Think of me can serve as an example.
Listen to the song and complete the gap fill activity using the clues given in the '?' buttons.
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Here's an amateur version and a version with lyrics.
For more practice with minimal pairsAna López Pozohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01961355790962055702noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5963856972417633339.post-71837643318539795392009-08-31T12:50:00.017+02:002015-09-29T13:17:55.730+02:00SOME PEOPLE HAVE IT WORSE THAN MESome stuff for advanced level. Tim Minchin's witty humour can be difficult to follow for non native speakers of English, but he's certainly a treasure source of material to practice all aspects of connected speech. It contains language that might be offensive, but be aware that the intention is purely humorous. The song Some People Have It Worse Than Me composed and interpreted by Tim Minchin.
Ana López Pozohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01961355790962055702noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5963856972417633339.post-44716551624184531872009-02-28T23:15:00.019+01:002017-01-14T12:01:59.704+01:00THAT DAY. /S/ INITIAL POSITIONSome latin based languages tend to add an intrusive 'e' sound before the /s/ sound when it is followed by a consonant in initial position.
eg: 'e'Steve 'e'speaks 'e'Spanish.
The song That Day by Natalie Imbruglia will help in the practice of the sound /s/ in initial position as well as the practice of this sound in connected speech. Try to hear the language as chunks of speech rather than Ana López Pozohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01961355790962055702noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5963856972417633339.post-80528077006597323292009-01-13T11:29:00.008+01:002010-12-08T01:36:45.976+01:00ENGLISH PHONETICS TRANSCRIPTION EDITORHere is a great page on phonetic resources where you can download PhoTransEdit , a free Windows tool created to help you typing phonetic transcriptions. The tool includes:Automatic phonetic transcription of English texts. A phonetic keyboard to edit/create phonetic transcriptions. Statistics on the number of times a sound is found in a transcription. A converter of IPA symbols into HTML code Ana López Pozohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01961355790962055702noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5963856972417633339.post-88929440172374240852008-06-27T18:58:00.029+02:002017-01-14T12:05:37.748+01:00WISH YOU WERE HERE. APPROXIMANTS (LIQUID AND GLIDE CONSONANTS) /l/ /r/ /j/ /w/Liquid consonants /l/ /r/ are sounds where the airstream is obstructed, but not so much as to either stop it or create friction. Pronounce all or are very slowly and hear the difference between the vowel and the liquid consonants. Some languages trill r's, of course. In American English the /r/ is considered a retroflex because of how the tongue flexes back toward the alveolar ridge (Ana López Pozohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01961355790962055702noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5963856972417633339.post-30687415495530859762008-05-26T22:45:00.025+02:002017-01-15T14:13:31.882+01:00SING A NASAL SONG /n/ /m/ /ŋ/Nasal consonants /n/ /m/ /ŋ/ are produced with a lowered velum in the mouth, allowing air to escape freely through the nose. A nasal consonant is also called nasal stop or nasal continuant.
It is advisable to click on the phonemes /n/ /m/ /ŋ/ in the consonant chart on the right before you listen to the song. To produce /ŋ/ you obstruct the air stream through your mouth by bringing Ana López Pozohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01961355790962055702noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5963856972417633339.post-23318130057448177842008-04-16T12:36:00.034+02:002017-01-14T18:40:01.110+01:00LOVE PROFUSION /ʃ/ /ʒ/The sounds /ʃ/ /ʒ/ can create confusion when associating them to their graphemes (letters) as they are very similar. Madonna's Love profusion is a song very prolific in both these two sounds.
First, use the phonetic chart on the right and click on the sounds /ʃ/ and /ʒ/ to hear and repeat the sound in isolation as many times as you need to.
Listen to the song and do the gap-fill exercise by Ana López Pozohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01961355790962055702noreply@blogger.com5