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with Alistair King

How toHow to

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English Speaker

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The Spoken WordThe Spoken Word

Greater confidence leads to Greater confidence leads to more efficient staff.more efficient staff.

Heavy mist covered the Heavy mist covered the factory.factory.

Well-trained staff work with Well-trained staff work with increased confidence.increased confidence.

Carl’s curls were trimmed Carl’s curls were trimmed by the barber.by the barber.

The present has been The present has been received.received.

Are you able to lend the Are you able to lend the plane?plane?

Please collect your booklets Please collect your booklets at the registration table.at the registration table.

The clouds disappeared at The clouds disappeared at around 9 a.m. around 9 a.m.

All full-time staff in this All full-time staff in this department have been department have been

trained.trained.

10. 10.

Your presence is required at Your presence is required at the meeting.the meeting.

11. 11.

You need to use a pan for You need to use a pan for this task.this task.

12. 12.

Can you sand the wood Can you sand the wood down?down?

13. 13.

We have had many complaints We have had many complaints since our complaints desk was since our complaints desk was

opened.opened.

14. 14.

Can you collect your celery Can you collect your celery today?today?

15. 15.

It is difficult to gain access It is difficult to gain access to this site.to this site.

16. 16.

Release excess energy by Release excess energy by going for an early morning going for an early morning

run!run!

17. 17.

The sales office will be The sales office will be closed until Monday.closed until Monday.

18.18.

We are being forced to stay We are being forced to stay back every evening until back every evening until

9PM.9PM.

19. 19.

A lot of money has been spent A lot of money has been spent on promotion of our product.on promotion of our product.

20. 20.

This hose is used for watering the This hose is used for watering the garden.garden.

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Poor girl – she’s afraid of Poor girl – she’s afraid of the duck.the duck.

Thank you for your Thank you for your presents.presents.

It cost me fifty dollars.It cost me fifty dollars.

I don’t like using these I don’t like using these paper plates.paper plates.

What a sight!What a sight!

He welcomed the women He welcomed the women to the function.to the function.

The The NewsNews

News 1/10One of the oldest indigenous peoples, the Inuit, have turned to one of the most modern forms of communication to tell the world about their culture.

They have launched a website detailing their 5,000-year-old history, cataloguing their origins, when they first came into contact with white explorers and their struggle for land rights.

Part of the reason for setting up the website was to tell the story of the Inuit in their own words, as until now, most of the research on Inuit culture and history has been done by others.

News 2/10Malicious computer hackers could soon face life in prison for some computer crimes.

The US House of Representatives has approved a bill that inflicts harsh penalties for computer crimes that harm people or endanger America's critical infrastructure.

The same law rewrites the rules on surveillance and lets US police forces and law enforcers install wiretaps if there is an ongoing attack deemed to threaten national security.

Civil liberty groups criticised the legislation and said it trampled on rights to privacy, was hastily drawn up and punished people too severely.

News 3/10The first official planning options for rebuilding Lower Manhattan after the 11 September attacks are due to be revealed.

Six proposals have been commissioned by the umbrella-body which New York Governor George Pataki created to oversee the whole process - the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC).

They have been shrouded in secrecy, and were guided by a complex set of financial and commercial considerations.

But several leading politicians in the city have already seen them, and begun to cast judgement.

News 4/10

In her "investment for reform" deal with the Treasury, the Education Secretary, Estelle Morris, has agreed to a series of performance targets.

They involve sustaining improvements in England's primary schools, raising attainment in secondary schools and improving adults' skills.

Where national curriculum tests are concerned the objectives restate some existing targets and bring in some new ones, notably for reducing underachievement.

News 5/10

Criminal charges are pending at a United States national park, after a visitor was gored by a bison.

But it is Paul Jocelyn, who suffered a puncture wound in his right thigh, who is facing a court summons, rather than the bison.

The 37-year-old visitor, from Albertville, Minnesota, faces prosecution for harassing wildlife, after he allegedly came too near the animal, at Yellowstone National Park.

It is against the law to come within 25 metres of wildlife.

News 6/10

Mr Jocelyn was with a group of visitors, who allegedly went within five metres of the bull bison, as it was grazing near the park's most famous attraction, the Old Faithful Geyser.

He then made the additional mistake of walking around the bison to see if it would raise its head for a photograph.

The bison's response was to pursue Mr Jocelyn into a nearby wood, where it tossed him in the air.

Shortly afterwards, the bison resumed grazing.

News 7/10

Once the prime example of a "tiger economy", Malaysia's decade-long economic boom ended with the onset of the Asian financial crisis in 1997. High government spending and excessive corporate borrowing had contributed to a large domestic debt and a high current account deficit, making it vulnerable to international capital fluctuations and forcing it to adopt austerity measures.

News 8/10

What has been described as the most spectacular example of wildlife conservation in the history of the United States has been ruled unlawful by a judge.

A federal court has decided that conservationists broke the law when they successfully re-introduced wolves to the Yellowstone Park in the American Rockies.

The project, which began three years ago, was designed to control the numbers of other species in the park. The wolves not only survived; they thrived and began killing cattle on nearby ranches.

News 9/10Ranchers, who say that the wolves have been leaving the park's unfenced boundaries and killing their livestock, went to court.

A federal judge has now ruled that the whole re-population operation was illegal. The case is to go to appeal.

The man behind the project, Ed Bangs, from the US Bureau of Fish and Wildlife, said it would be a shame if the wolves had to go.

He said: "Biologically it's been an outstanding success. There have been very few problems and 20,000 people get to see wolves in Yellowstone Park, so biologically the programme is more successful than we ever hoped for."

News 10/10

Ranchers, however, want the wolves to go. One rancher said: "I never thought it was a good idea - they're killers no matter what."

The ranchers want the state's Federal Wildlife Wardens to prevent the wolves from leaving Yellowstone.

Rancher John Morse said: "My own sense is that the middle ground ought to be that the park service, which has been particularly arrogant, should figure out a way how to keep the wolves in the park."

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PronunciationPronunciation

Word-final Stop Consonant/k/ /g/

One One duckduck dugdug its head its head into the pail and othe into the pail and othe other other duckduck followed. followed.

A frogfrog crawled inside her frockfrock.

We locklock the logslogs in the warehouse.

Word-final Stop Consonant/t/ /d/

I hatehate to get my headhead wet.

The hunter scratched his hathat when he found his chicken which hadhad lost

its headhead.

The boy’s left footfoot is very near the foodfood.

Word-final Stop Consonant/p/ /b/

Just taptap the tabtab key.

Word-final Stop Consonant/p/ /b/

The tiger cubcub cannot drink from the cupcup.

Consonant Clusters

A ghost

Many ghosts …

Consonant Clusters

Guests

The “th” sound

She remembers that the thiefthief had some

bad teethteeth.

The “th” sound

Johnny is not fat.

He is the thinthin one.

The “t” and “th” sound

Taught

Thought

Thread

More “th” sounds …

Threat

Through

Initial dental fricatives

Thimble

/θ//θ/ /ð//ð/

Vowels // /α: /

//// /α://α:/

Vowels /æ / /e/

/æ//æ//e//e/

Vowels /I/ /i:/

/I//I//i://i:/

What are they?

Break for Break for LunchLunch

How do you say …

Photograph

Photographer

Photographic

Stress

Thirty ThirteenForty FourteenFifty FifteenSixty SixteenSeventy SeventeenEighty EighteenNinety Nineteen

Verbs, Nouns, etc … 1/4

1) The bandage was wound around the wound.

2) The farm was used to produce produce.

3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.

4) We must polish the Polish furniture.

5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.

6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.

7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.

8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.

9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.

10)I did not object to the object.

11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.

12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.

13) They were too close to the door to close it.

14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.

15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.

16) I want to record this session because I need to have a record of what happened.

17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.

18) After a number of injections my jaw got number.

19) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.

20) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.

Where to Stress?

methodology methododology

typology typopology

anthology anthothology

technology technonology

anniversary anniverversary

literature liliterature

perimeter peririmeter

legitimate legigitimate

* Welcome *Day 2

Question Tag

“Is it?”

“Isn’t it?”

Question Tag - exercise

1) I'm not late, ___________? am I

2) I'm invited to your party,___________? aren’t I

3) You like Indian food, ___________? don’t you

4) Let’s play badminton, ___________? shall we

5) Nobody came to your party, ___________? did they

6) Don’t forget, ___________? will you

Over Correcting

That’s means …This is more better …I don’t know …

Over-simplification

already (sudah)

not yet (belum)

Mother Tongue Influence

got (ada, terdapat)

one (punya)

Malaysian English

I got a red chop on my passport.

Malaysian English

We had to decline the offer because not enough money.

Malaysian English

Today we eat Bar-Be-Que.

Tomorrow we eat McDonald.

Malaysian English

You pump Mobil is it?

I only pump BP one.

The Chaos 1/12

Dearest creature in creation,

Study English pronunciation.

I will teach you in my verse

Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.

I will keep you, Suzy, busy,

Make your head with heat grow dizzy.

Tear in eye, your dress will tear.

So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.

The Chaos 2/12

Just compare heart, beard, and heard, Dies and diet, lord and word, Sword and sward, retain and Britain. (Mind the latter, how it's written.) Now I surely will not plague you With such words as plaque and ague. But be careful how you speak: Say break and steak, but bleak and streak; Cloven, oven, how and low, Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.

The Chaos 3/12

Hear me say, devoid of trickery, Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore, Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles, Exiles, similes, and reviles; Scholar, vicar, and cigar, Solar, mica, war and far; One, anemone, Balmoral, Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel; Gertrude, German, wind and mind, Scene, Melpomene, mankind.

The Chaos 4/12

Billet does not rhyme with ballet, Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet. Blood and flood are not like food, Nor is mould like should and would. Viscous, viscount, load and broad, Toward, to forward, to reward. And your pronunciation's OK When you correctly say croquet, Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve, Friend and fiend, alive and live.

The Chaos 5/12Ivy, privy, famous; clamour And enamour rhyme with hammer. River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb, Doll and roll and some and home. Stranger does not rhyme with anger, Neither does devour with clangour. Souls but foul, haunt but aunt, Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant, Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger, And then singer, ginger, linger, Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge, Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.

The Chaos 6/12Query does not rhyme with very, Nor does fury sound like bury. Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth. Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath. Though the differences seem little, We say actual but victual. Refer does not rhyme with deafer. Feoffer does, and zephyr, heifer. Mint, pint, senate and sedate; Dull, bull, and George ate late. Scenic, Arabic, Pacific, Science, conscience, scientific.

The Chaos 7/12

Liberty, library, heave and heaven, Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven. We say hallowed, but allowed, People, leopard, towed, but vowed. Mark the differences, moreover, Between mover, cover, clover; Leeches, breeches, wise, precise, Chalice, but police and lice; Camel, constable, unstable, Principle, disciple, label.

The Chaos 8/12

Petal, panel, and canal, Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal. Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair, Senator, spectator, mayor. Tour, but our and succour, four. Gas, alas, and Arkansas. Sea, idea, Korea, area, Psalm, Maria, but malaria. Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean. Doctrine, turpentine, marine.

The Chaos 9/12

Compare alien with Italian,

Dandelion and battalion.

Sally with ally, yea, ye,

Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.

Say aver, but ever, fever,

Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.

Heron, granary, canary.

Crevice and device and aerie.

The Chaos 10/12

Face, but preface, not efface. Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass. Large, but target, gin, give, verging, Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging. Ear, but earn and wear and tear Do not rhyme with here but ere. Seven is right, but so is even, Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen, Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk, Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.

The Chaos 11/12

Pronunciation -- think of Psyche!

Is a paling stout and spikey?

Won't it make you lose your wits,

Writing groats and saying grits?

It's a dark abyss or tunnel:

Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,

Islington and Isle of Wight,

Housewife, verdict and indict.

The Chaos 12/12

Finally, which rhymes with enough --

Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?

Hiccough has the sound of cup.

My advice is to give up!!!

This poem first appeared in Drop Your Foreign Accent - Engelse Uitspraakoefeningen, by G. Nolst Trenite (5th rev. ed., H. D. Tjeenk Willink & Zoon, 1929). Dr. Gerald Nolst Trenite (1870-1946) was a Dutch observer of English.

Twist Your Tongue “I” & “i”1/2

1) Tim's team was licked by the leaking roof.

2) Pip and Pete shipped the sheep ships cheaply.

3) Those bins are for Bill Beal's beans.

4) Does Jim still steal Jill's jeans?

5) Will Wheeler's team get many hits in this heat?

Twist Your Tongue “I” & “i”2/2

6) The girls snickered at Jill and Jean's sneakers.

7) Leaving the living sinners at the scene, Will Wheeler grieved.

8) Pick cherries at their peak or Pete will see the pits.

9) Beach bins are filled with field filler.

10)He's giving his healing pills to all the sinners on the scene.

Twist Your Tongue “th” 1/4

1) Thor is the god of Thunder.

2) Thelma and Theo have bad breath.

3) Three free thrilling frills fought on Ruth's roof.

4) Thieves are thankless thugs who deserve our wrath.

5) Nothing is worth thousands of deaths.

6) Mr. Smith's teeth are thin and lethal.

7) Thursdays are thirsty days for lethargic Ruth and Thelma.

8) It seems themes are sought by thousands of mythical misses.

9) Thick ticks on three trees brought broth to ten thin tin men.

10)Sick thickets thwarted seven thin sinners from passing through.

Twist Your Tongue “th” 3/4AKSB

CONSULTING

11)Those of the southern and northern areas are still writhing and seething.

12)Breathe the breeze, loathe the lows, and soothe the Sues.

13)Rather than loathing their mothers, soothe their fathers.

14)Bathing in the bays is soothing to those teething brothers.

15)Dan would rather scythe in wetter weather.

16)Their dare was to Dan rather than those dozing northerners.

17)Ether either makes Thor writhe or seethe.

18)Though dough is worthy, it is worthier with their father's tithe.

19)That thatch there on their thighs, although sheathed, is weathered.

20)Breeding breathing southern otters in the north is worth thousands to them.

Malaysian English

Question - quest-tien

harassment - hair-res-men

education - e-doo-cation

development - dair-velopmen

/le/ /er/

We must educate the littlelittle boys not to litterlitter.

CONSULTING

/le/ /er/

The eagleeagle is very eagereager to catch its prey.

CONSULTING

The “wh” sound

Which witchWhich witch has captured the princess?

CONSULTING

The “sh” sound

We use a shipship to transport sheepsheep to our shopshop.

CONSULTING

The “r” sound

Where do you parkpark your carcar?

CONSULTING

Group One

A Career in BankingA Career in Banking

Group Two

Super-Kleen Soap PowderSuper-Kleen Soap Powder

Group Three

How to be motivated at workHow to be motivated at work

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