Improve My Pronunciation.

Speak English with greater accuracy.

Improve My Pronunciation offers an efficient way for students to improve their pronunciation skills. When used alongside either Improve My General English - Beginner (A1) or Improve My General English (A2 – C1) it provides useful supplementary practice of the words and phrases students will encounter in each course.

Improve My Pronunciation  can be easily added to the General English portfolio. It is recommended that once a student has completed a lesson in either Improve My General English - Beginner or Improve My General English, they should do the correlating pronunciation practice lesson.

 

At a Glance

  • Level: CEFR A1 – C1

  • Number of Lessons: 180 (Digital)

  • Lesson Duration: Approx. 5 mins (Digital)

  • Key Content: Business; Everyday Life; Leisure and Entertainment; People and Relationships; Nature and the Environment; Society; Travel and Transportation

  • Additional Features: Lesson content that links to the syllabus of Improve my General English and Improve My General English - Beginner

Features

  • 180 short pronunciation lessons from A1 – C1 covering a wide range of everyday topics. Language that is clearly linked to the lesson aims of Improve My General English - Beginner and Improve My General English

  • Study sections that present everyday words and sentences for focused listening practice.

  • A record and playback function for students to compare their pronunciation with language models.

  • Speech recognition technology that identifies problem areas and allows students to check their accuracy.

Speech Recording and Analysis

Improve My Pronunciation lessons in are kept short and are easy to use. They follow a basic ‘study and test’ structure which can be completed in approx. 5 minutes and repeated as required.

At the start of each lesson, students are presented with a set number of words and phrases, either in definition or illustrated format. They can listen to language in context and hear the appropriate intonation and pronunciation.

Students then move into the test phase where they can use the record and playback function to practice their own pronunciation. After each attempt, the speech recognition software will compare their recording with the models and provide an overall score along with an indication of words that are problematic.