Hi Guest! I'm also a teacher in a private school and I see your point when you talk about the lack of confidence in students. From what I have seen, this seems to be their main problem when practising speaking skills. What I usually do is pair

I guess these are examples of short e /e/ sounds ending in a dental /t/ or /d/ as well as final /l/ and /n/: Fell, Tell, Sell, Read (past tense), Led, Bled, Said, Then, When (strong forms) Bet, Let, Debt (/b/ is silent), Met, I can't

Hello gleo Happiness is one of the funniest movie I've ever seen, but you're right, it's a bit darker and not everyone thinks this is a comic movie, but I couldn't help laughing when I saw it. I haven't seen Planes, Trains & Automobiles so I'll

Ok, here it goes: 1) Cube 2) Fight Club 3) North by Northwest (classic Hitchcock film) 4) Matrix (just the first one) 5) Trainspotting 6) The Beach 7) Meet the Parents 8) The Great Lebowski 9) The Shawshank Redemption 10) Muriel's

I think the guest may be referring to the aspirated pronunciation of an initial p as opposed to that found in the middle of a word, which is not aspirated. I was taught a little trick to learn the correct pronunciation of an aspirated /p/:

Hello hyfather, The standard pronunciation of blue is /blu:/ - /u:/ this phonetic symbol represents a long u sound. I've never heard anyone pronouncing it /bleu/. (Can this be the French pronunciation?) (f)

Hi esc, I would use the word "sibling" (a person's brother or sister): Jill and John are siblings Hope this helps

Thanks Mr Micawber. I also googled the rhyme and I came across the racially offensive one, the one you mention in excerpt 2. I was interested in the original nursery rhyme lyrics and I found about the "piggy" one. I didn't know about the "tiger"

Jobb, I don't know if this is what you are looking for, but I guess that your question is about intonation and sentence stress. If this is what you mean I might give you my opinion. I would read the sentence with a little pause after "feel",

Ohhh, Molly, I had forgotten about that, but now you've refreshed my memory. I think I'm going to take my book again and have a look at it! I was studying about the forming of Old English at the time I studied Dutch, so I could make some