PRACTICAL LESSON TUE 28

HELLO!!
TODAY WE DID A TRANSCRPTION FEATURING ALLOPHONES OF PLOSIVE AND FRICATIVE CONSONANTS. WE ALSO DID A DICTATION AND RECORDED SOUNDS ENGLISH (UNITS 11 AND 12)
SEE U TOMORROW!
LAURA

About sending handouts via e-mail

Hello again

I had agreed with those students delivering the oral presentation next week to send me the handouts via e-mail. However, on second thoughts, I consider it won´t work out because I ´ll also need the copies of the textbook units you chose. So PLEASE submit them Thursday 30th or Friday 31st. Leave the copies at Departamento (Phonetics pigeon hole).

Thank you.

Susan

Oral presentations: 2nd mid- term exam

Hi there

Please remember to include theory in your oral presentation as a support to the group of consonants chosen.

Furthermore, if you need tape recorder, DVD or some other kind of equipment,you should tell Richard or me in advance.
Thank you.

PS We have implemented a Phonetics Workshop on Tuesdays delivered by Claudia Cosentino so as to reinforce dictation practice.

Be seeing you.

Susan

Hi there!!! For further practice of dictations you can join the class on Tuesdays from 3 to 4 at the lab.
Hope you can come!!!
See you
Claudia

Tuesday 21 Practical Lesson

Hello!!
* Warm up: reading of second page of Tongue Twisters giving practice in plosive and fricative consonants (use of dictionary- sentence stress-pair work at the lab)
*Free practice for next week´s diction exam
* Recording of Sounds English (units 9-10)
*Dictation
Laura

October 22 NATIONAL STRIKE

Hello students!
I wanted to let you know that I´m joining the national university teachers´ strike tomorrow
I´ll be seeing you on Monday then
Take care!
Laura

Oral presentation

Dear students

I posted today Tuesday morning, the list with dates + topics for your oral presentation.You must include your names there and make your choices.

I´ll be answering questions about it and helping you in case you need it every Friday morning at Departamento.


Thanx.
Enjoy your weekend.

Susan

2nd mid term exams and make-ups

Hi! Here you have the dates, topics and groups for the 2nd oral mid term exam. The written exam (dictation, and transcription of English and Spanish sentences) will be on Monday 10th at 12hs and Tuesday 11th at 10hs. depending on the group you attend. The Oral make-up exam will be on Monday 17th at 12hs, and the Dictation and transcription make-up exam will be on Monday 24th at 14hs. See you

Ricardo

Topics for the 2nd Oral Mid-term Exam

• Sounds English: from Unit 2 to 11.
• How Now Brown Cow. Units: 4, 9, 10.
• Ship or Sheep: Units 24 to 29 and 38, 39.
• Sound Right Dialogues 32 to 49.
• Clusters: From dialogue 45 to 69.

Group 1. Monday 27th, 12 – 14hs.

GONCALVEZ, María Belén
GOYENECHE, Mariana
GRASSO, Estefanía
LESCA, Amancay
MARTÍNEZ, Ana Macarena
MASONE, Sebastián
PAZ, Josefina María
ROSSI, Virginia
STEINBACH, Elena
VALERIO, Solange
ZANETTO, Agostina

Group 2. Tuesday 28th, 10 – 12hs

ATIENZA,Laura
ALTAMIRANDA, Elizabeth
BARRANGÚ, María Mercedes
BENTIVEGNA, Eliana
CAÑETE, Victoria
CONTI, Micaela María
DI SABATO VAZ, María Paz
DI VIRGILIO, Andrea
FURLAN, Milagros
GÓMEZ, Paula Vanesa

WEDNESDAY 15 T/P LESSON

Hello!
This is what we did last Wednesday:
* Notes on bb from Teaching American English Pronunciation: revision rules for sentence stress-unstress/minor word stress/major word stress/major sentence stress-common errors in words stress patterns-stress/unstress
* p 23 (Ortiz Lira, stress section): lists of words carrying different stress patterns (read silently and then aloud) (paired at the lab)
* Clusters (66-72)
Take care!
Laura

T/P LESSON WEDNESDAY 8

Hello!!
Yesterday we did intensive practice for Tuesday´s make-up exam (dictation)
We also carried out a brief revision of the main concepts concerning STRESS-SENTENCES STRESS (content v grammatical words, main exceptions, the nature of sentence stress in Spanish)
At the LAB, students got in pairs and discussed which words took stress and which ones did not in a few dialogues (Sounds English). Then they read the conversation aloud, paying special attention to sentence stress.
Take care and enjoy the long weekend!

Websites for practising dictation

Hello there

Solange Valerio - a mate of yours- sent me these new websites to practise sentence dictation.

Be seeing you next week.

Enjoy your weekend.

Susan


http://international.ouc.bc.ca/pronunciation/

http://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~karchung/phonetics/dictations.htm

TUESDAY 7 PRACTICAL LESSON

Hello there!
Today we started our lesson with a warming-up activity: students prepared TONGUE TWISTERS (diction material p 25) featuring English plosive consonants in pairs at the lab. Assignment for Tue 14: transcribe tongue twisters por practice (not to be handed in)
Two-page dictation(top mark: 25)
Sounds English: recording of units 5 and 6
See you tomorrow morning then!
Laura

New dates for written mid-term # 2

Hello everybody

There's been a change regarding the dates of the witten exam due to overlapping with final exam boards on November the 18th.
New dates: November 10th and 11th.

Thank you.

Susan

Mid - term 1: Marks

Hello again

I'll be posting up the marks of Mid-term exam 1 tomorrow morning. Furthermore, I'll be showing the tests in class. If you belong to the Monday group, you can also join us.

Be seeing you.

Susan

About mid-term exam 2

Dear students

As scheduled, our second mid-term exam will be in November.It will be divided into three parts:

1. Written exam: dictation (on November 17th and 18th)+ allophonic transcription of an English sentence and a Spanish one(same dates)
2. Oral exam (lab material) starting on October 27th.
3. Oral presentations in pairs starting on November 3rd and finishing November 20th.

Instructions for the oral presentations have already been left at Fotocopiadora de Humanidades,together with the Marking Criteria List.You should get both copies for the test.

Thank you

PS Please, go on reading English/Spanish Nasals and Affricates.

Thank you.Take care.


Susan

WEDNESDAY T/P LESSON

Hello students,

This is what we did today:
* Introduction to STRESS: brainstorming, the nature of stress (D Jones), word and sentence stress (general rules).
* "Clusters": apply sentence stress on paper, recording of dialogues 59/66
* Exercise material (p392): Judge place of articulation of mouth diagrams and draw missing parts
* Stress section (p13): Match dictionary entries with definitions (words with primary stresses)Reading assignment for next class: from Teaching American English Pronunciation, "Connected Speech" chapter: Placement of stress in sentences, from "Suprasegmentals..." chapter: Stress/unstress
Thank you,
Laura