A selection of English ESL pronunciation printables

This is the second installment in practicing the -ed ending sound in regular past tense verbs. Attached are the pronunciation rules for regular past tense verbs. This activity would be best done with a teacher first demonstrating the sounds of the _ed ending.

Regular Past Tense Verbs Pronunciation Practice 2

this is a nice starter activities ws to do with students.

page one : identifying regular and irregular verbs, then fill in a grid on irregular verbs

page two: identifying "-ED" sounds, then identifying the various past tenses



Keys included

Grammar - Identiy Past Regular + Irregular Verbs + Pronunciation

Pronunciation activity for students studying phonics. Learning the different sounds of b and v. Before letting your students read them by themselves it's best to teach them the positioning of your tongue and mouth in pronouncing these letters. After that, let them repeat after you and lastly make them read it by themselves.

Pronunciation exercise: b and v (1st set)

Hi!!! 



I strongly recommed to use this video for activity No. 2 in this worksheet, specially for students' first contact with past simple.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwU7akjlzp4

Regards

Past simple "ed" pronunciation of regular verbs.

This is the third installment in practicing the -ed ending sound in regular past tense verbs. Attached are the pronunciation rules for regular past tense verbs. This activity would be best done with a teacher first demonstrating the sounds of the _ed ending.

Regular Past Tense Verbs Pronunciation Practice 3

What started off as a simple pronunciation worksheet transformed into a fairly comprehensive body of work, which includes dictionary work and a Webquest (for more advanced students).  It is intended to help students with identifying both regular and irregular verbs, their various forms and identifying the correct pronunciation for regular verbs ending with the letters 'ed'. 



Interactive listening exercise: https://en.islcollective.com/video-lessons/pronunciation-of-ed-verb-endings-flaws-by-bastille-d-vs-t-vs



It was designed to give my teacher trainees ideas of how to teach pronunciation.  I hope you and your students enjoy these exercises :)

Bastille - Flaws - Pronunciation Guide & Webquest - 6 Pages

Learners complete the worksheet by listening to the songs and filling in the gaps/checking their answers.



12 songs are featured in the worksheet with 1 idiom in each song. The list of songs can be found in the video description and the list of idioms at the start of the video (video linked below). The answer key is included after the worksheets.



The activity can be made more difficult for advanced learners by asking students to try to fill in the gaps BEFORE listening to the songs, thus testing their knowledge of idioms.



The music’s audio along with the answers can be found in this video: https://youtu.be/wYqdHf6n1UM



Learners self correct their worksheets by watching the video: https://youtu.be/wYqdHf6n1UM

Ordinal numbers - idioms and pronunciation - song worksheet

This is our singular and plural nouns worksheets section. 

 with this simple worksheet, our the students can complete the chart with different words. ( names one person, place, thing, or idea. A plural noun names more than one person, place, thing or idea. It is important to learn the difference between singular and plural nouns. So, they can check the correct pronunciation as well.  You can use it as worksheet or homework I think so Have fun using it.

Spelling and Pronunciation Rules for Plural Nouns

This worksheet serves as a guide to pronunciation of -ED Past Simple regular verbs endings in standard British English. The rules and examples are given in a clearly arranged table that students are asked to fill in. The correct pronunciation is facilitated by encouraging the students to use the phonemic alphabet transcription (IPA). Answers are included.

Pronunciation of -ED Past Simple regular verbs ending

Grammar is another way to improve our conversation because it's necessary to apply it correctly. Simple past tense is one of the most important verbal tense that we need to pay attention, mainly when it is necessary to use irregular verbs.

Quick Simple Past Tense Grammar Review + Pronunciation Check

Exercise/Worksheet to practise the Pronunciation of the article 'THE', weather the right answer is [ðə] or [ði:]. 

It can be used for elementary school studends as well as the adults.

Page 1 is fully editable.

Please, check out my other Worksheets:



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Pronunciation of the article 'THE'  -  [ðə] or [ði:] ?

A table with the most used irregular English verbs divided into subgroups as per the conjugation patterns they follow. This is especially useful for adult learners so that they can memorise irregular verbs more easily. I also added some comments on pronunciation

Grammar Guide - Irregular Verbs in Group + Subgroups + Pronunciation

Culture, intercultural communication, cross-cultural communication

Adjectives to describe feelings, emotions

Adjectives to describe personality and character

Adjectives: Gradable / Non-gradable adjectives

Articles: Definite or indefinite article (a, an or the)

BE + infinitive structures (e.g. he was to become famous)

Clauses of contrast (e.g.  although, while)

Clauses of purpose (e.g. in order to, so that, so as to)

Clauses of reason (e.g. because, because of, due to, as, since)

Cleft sentences (e.g. It's Joey we're looking for)

Comparison: Comparative adjectives and structures

Comparison: Superlative adjectives and structures

Conditional 2 (second conditional) - would

Conditionals: Conditional phrases (e.g. unless, provided that, as long as)

Conjunctions (aka connectives, e.g. and, but, or, so, then)

Contractions (shortened forms, e.g. don't, aren't, etc.)

Determiners (words that can come before nouns)

Formal and informal English (politeness or colloquial language)

Future perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Future perfect simple and continuous (progressive) tense

Future phrases (e.g. be about to, bound to, likely to, due to, set to + INF)

Homonyms (two words with the same pronunciation - homophones and homographs)

It as preparatory subject (e.g. it's raining, it's nice of you to)

Linking verbs (aka copulas, e.g. I am a student)

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Nouns: Collective nouns (team, class, family, committee)

Nouns: Proper nouns (names of people, cities, companies)

Oxymorons (phrases with words of contradictory meaning, e.g. living dead)

Participles: Past participle (e.g. HAVING DONE)

Participles: Present participle (e.g. DOING)

Parts of Speech (aka word classes, e.g. nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs)

Past perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Phonetics (pronunciation, IPA, phonetic symbols)

Plural nouns: regular plurals with S ending

Prefixes (e.g. A, UN, IM, DIS, MIS, EN, etc. )

Prepositions vs adverbs (e.g. before me, saw him before.)

Prepositions: Double prepositions (e.g. out of)

Prepositions: Participle prepositions (e.g. pending, concerning)

Prepositions: Phrase prepositions (e.g. by means of)

Present perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Present perfect simple or present continuous tense

Present simple tense: S for third person singular verbs

Present simple vs continuous (progressive) tense

Pronouns: EACH OTHER, ONE ANOTHER (reciprocal pronouns)

Pronouns: Possessive pronouns (e.g. my, mine)

Pronouns: Reflexive pronouns (e.g. myself, yourself))

Pronouns: SOMEBODY, ANYBODY, EVERYBODY, NO ONE, NOTHING, etc.

Pronouns: THIS, THAT, THESE, THOSE (demonstratives)

Pronouns: YOU and THEY to talk about people in general

Quantifiers (e.g. some, many, much, any, few, little)

Questions: WH questions (open-ended questions)

Reported speech: reported questions (indirect questions)

There is / there are / there was / there were / there will be, etc.

Verbs: Transitive or intransitive verbs (words that can or cannot stand with objects)

Working with Paragraphs: ordering, titling

Role play, miming, drama activity or improv game

Pictionary (picture dictionary) or picture matching

Writing an opinion essay (persuasive essay)

Learners who are Pre-A1 have just begun learning English and will first learn how to:<ul><li>Say the letters in the alphabet and numbers</li><li>Say hello, talk about names and age</li><li>Name the colors and dates, express likes and dislikes</li></ul>

Absolute beginners who have begun to learn the letters and numbers

Learners taking the A1 Elementary exam should be able to:<ul><li>Introduce themselves and ask and answer questions about personal details such as where he/she lives, things he/she has, people he/she knows.</li><li>Communicate using very basic phrases as long as the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: common adjectives & adverbs of frequency, going to, how much/how many, imperatives, I'd like, 's – possessive, common prepositions of place and time, present simple & continuous, there is/are</li></ul>

A very basic tourist level, which is enough for buying food and a bus ticket

Learners taking the A2 Pre-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand sentences and frequently used expressions (e.g. very basic personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment).</li><li>Complete tasks that are routine and exchange information about familiar matters.</li><li>Describe matters of immediate need in simple terms.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: countable/uncountable nouns, adverbs of frequency, future will/going to, much/many, present perfect, past simple, past continuous, common phrasal verbs, common modals: can/should</li></ul>

A tourist who can do basic conversations about the past, present and future

Learners taking the B1 Intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand points regarding family, work, school or leisure-related topics.</li><li>Deal with most travel situations in areas where the language is spoken.</li><li>Create simple texts on topics of personal interest.</li><li>Describe experiences, events, dreams, and ambitions, as well as opinions or plans in brief.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: question tags, intensifiers: too/enough, future tenses, past tenses, modals, conditionals, wh-questions in the past</li></ul>

Learners who can deal with both familiar and routine situations, in friendly and work contexts

Learners taking the B2 Upper-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization.</li><li>Interact with fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible without difficulty for either party.</li><li>Produce clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects and explain an opinion on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: perfect tenses, mixed conditionals, modals in the present, phrasal verbs, reported speech, wish, relative clauses</li></ul>

The level where you can be a tour guide for your foreign friends and talk about a lot of topics, even abstract ones, with ease and fluency

Learners taking the C1 Advanced exam should be able to: Express ideas fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions. Use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes. Understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts. Produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, using linking phrases (=words that connect ideas between sentences). Main grammar points to know: inversion, mixed conditionals, modals in the past, all passive forms, phrasal verbs (all patterns), wish/if only for regrets

Learners who can smoothly communicate in every walk of life, read long texts and write well

Learners taking the C2 Proficient exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand almost everything read or heard with ease.</li><li>Summarize information from a variety of sources into a coherent presentation.</li><li>Express themselves using precise meaning in complex scenarios.</li><li>Can express him/herself spontaneously, very fluently and precisely, differentiating finer shades of meaning even in the most complex situations</li></ul>

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