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Advanced level
Reduce your accent in this 6 hour English pronunciation course with a Jane Austen literature theme. Each week you learn about a particular aspect of pronunciation, practice it in the session and at home - with a native speaker model to compare with. Improve specific areas of phonology - sounds, word stress, sentence stress, rhythm, linking. Personalised feedback improves your accent, intelligibility and accuracy.
This is a 6 week course, structured so that you practise pronunciation using a different Jane Austen novel - and a different heroine each week:
Week 1: Northanger Abbey - Catherine Morland
Week 2: Sense and Sensibility - Marianne and Elinor
Week 3: Pride and Prejudice - Elizabeth Bennett
Week 4: Mansfield Park - Fanny Price
Week 5: Emma - Emma Woodhouse
Week 6: Persuasion - Anne Elliot
Each week one student will plan to give a presentation about the heroine of that week's novel. In addition, in each session every student will:
The essential features of English phonology - weak forms, linking, the, a/an
Making sounds: vowels and diphthongs
Making sounds: consonants and consonant clusters
Intonation and sentence stress - types of question, emphasising, conveying meaning
Word stress - word stress families
Silent letters, homophones and homographs
Geoff says:
"This is a great way to reduce your accent, becoming more intelligible, clearer and more international in your use of English - while discussing Jane Austen!"
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