Adrian Underhill
ArticlePronunciation skills with Adrian Underhill: Overcoming common pronunciation challenges
In the last article in this series, ELT pronunciation expert Adrian Underhill looks at how to overcome common pronunciation problems.
ArticlePronunciation skills: Consonants – consciously rediscovering the ON and OFF voice buttons
In his latest article, ELT pronunciation expert Adrian Underhill looks at consonants and how consciously rediscoving the ON and OFF voice buttons can benefit both your teaching and your students’ learning.
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Pronunciation skills: Minimal pairs /θ/ and /ð/
In this video, Adrian looks at the minimal pairand and /θ/ and /ð/ and shows us how to make each sound in a simple and effective way while giving advice on how to gain control of the physicality needed to produce each sound.
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Pronunciation skills: Monophthongs and consonants
In this video, Adrian provides a handy overview of the monophthong sounds and provides a brief guided tour of the consonant sounds, showing how each sound relates to its neighbour on the chart and how it is produced in the mouth.
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Pronunciation skills: Long and short sounds /ɑː/ /ʌ/ and /ɒ/
Which sound do you make when you’re having a massage? And what is the noise of having a whole orange in your mouth? In this video, Adrian answers these unusual questions and uses mime to help demonstrate the physicality of each sound.
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Pronunciation skills: Off the map sounds /ɔː/ /æ/ and /e/
How can you teach pronunciation without using any sounds? In this video, Adrian helps show us by using mime to introduce us to some ‘off the map’ sounds and demonstrates us how we can identify sounds in relations to their neighbours on the phonetic chart.
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Pronunciation skills: The idiot sounds /ɜː/ and /ə/
Did you know that there is not one but two idiot sounds in the phonetic chart? In this video, pronunciation expert Adrian Underhill looks at the visibility and the physicality of these sounds, helping learners with the long vowel sound /ɜː/ and the most famous of all the phonemes, the schwa /ə/
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Pronunciation skills: Diphthongs – Sliding and putting sounds together
In his latest article, ELT pronunciation expert Adrian Underhill looks at diphthongs and how sliding and putting sounds together can benefit both your teaching and your students’ learning.
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Pronunciation skills: Monophthongs: Using mime, gesture and inner imaging
In his latest article, ELT pronunciation expert Adrian Underhill looks at monophthongs and how mime, gesture and inner imaging can benefit both your teaching and your students’ learning.
ArticlePronunciation skills: Why do we need the phonemic chart?
In his latest article, ELT pronunciation expert Adrian Underhill looks at why we need to use the phonemic chart in our classrooms.
ArticlePronunciation skills: Integrating pronunciation into your daily class work
In his latest article, ELT pronunciation expert Adrian Underhill looks at the ways in which pronunciation can be integrated into your day-to-day classroom work
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Pronunciation skills: Loosening the ‘grip’ of L1 pronunciation
ELT Pronunciation expert Adrian Underhill looks at the emergence of the ‘L1 grip’ and how best to tackle it.
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Pronunciation skills: What accent should I teach?
ELT Pronunciation expert Adrian Underhill addresses your practical concerns on accents, RP and student identity.
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Sound Foundations
This new and updated edition is a real help for teachers to feel comfortable when speaking and teaching pronunciation. The CD contains demonstrations of the activities with author's commentaries.
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It is impossible to overstate the importance of creating a good CV. After all, your CV is, in theory, your passport to a job – a new job, a better job, a more rewarding job, a more stimulating job. Here are some useful tips to get you started.