British Council Sri Lanka

Speaking Clearly

This enlightening workshop helps you improve your pronunciation, tone, pace and pausing by highlighting particular problem areas for Sri Lankan speakers of English.

You will play a variety of pronunciation games, use the British Council’s interactive phonemic chart* and make digital recordings of your voice.  Feedback on your strengths and weaknesses will ensure you immediately improve your pronunciation.

BENEFITS

After this one-day workshop you will be able to:

have an awareness of where your strengths and weaknesses in speaking English
have an awareness of impolite intonation
have an enhanced understanding of the expectations of meetings

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

You can expect to:

improve your pronunciation of English words
improve the clarity of your speech by controlling pace and stress
become aware of your voice as a business tool
ensure you use polite language and intonation

COURSE OUTLINE

Introduction

Strengths and weaknesses; sounds and spelling
The phonetic alphabet and the dictionary

Vowels

Discriminating between different vowels and diphthongs
Problem sounds & words

Consonants

Understanding consonants
Voicing: plosives, affricates and fricatives
Problem words

Linking

What is linking?
Putting words together

Stress

Syllable and word stress
Stress in phrases and compound nouns
The schwa, function words, sentence stress (word, sentence and contrastive)

Stress

Pace, Pausing and Intonation
Chunking and avoiding the ‘machine gun’ effect
Mood (recognizing frustration/irritation)

*On-site courses only

WHO THE COURSE IS FOR

This course is for anyone who wants to improve the clarity of their pronunciation in English.

When

Tuesday 22 May
from 0900 to 1600

Where Cinnamon Lakeside – Dukes Court 1
Fees
Individual price - Rs. 10,600/- (includes lunch &
refreshments)
At your own
premises - Rs. 99,000/- (up to 20 participants)
This price does not include the
cost of transporting the trainer
to and from your premises



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