This is an eight-minute video containing thirteen words that students of all levels and nationalities tend to mispronounce. You can use it in class with your late A2, B1 or B2 students.
The video is pretty self-explanatory, so you can recommend it for self-study as well.
I have not included words with two widely-accepted pronunciations (e.g. either, often) or words that have very noticeable BrE / AmE differences (e.g. schedule).
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Love it!
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Lovely work, Luiz Otávio. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you, Henry!
This is excellent, Luis Otávio! Well produced, with excellent examples! Thank you!
Thank you, Tania, for taking the time to comment!
Thanks for sharing such clear examples. Loved the video and I’ve been recommending it to my students.
Thank you, Elis, for your ongoing support! Um beijo!
This must have been a lot of work to find the clips! Thank you!
Although some of the words aren’t problematic for my students, now I may be inspired to find examples of the ones that are. I never understood why my students messed up “since” so adamantly until – after 20+ years of teaching! – it dawned on me that the word looks to them like “science” so they pronounce it more like that rather than like “mints.”
Yeah, Kristi, it was a bit time-consuming. I had mostly Brazilian students in mind as I wrote this, so, yeah, I can imagine that not all the words are problematic! Thanks for stopping by.
Thanks for sharing such interesting material!
It is a great idea to compile examples like that! Even though it is time-consuming, you can save it and use it over and over again. How do you make these videos? I’d love to make some of my own!
Yeah, it’s really time-consuming. We’re talking about five days here – including researching, compiling and editing.
I use iMovie for MAC.
This is great work, Luiz, as usual! I’ve seen it a couple of times but have never used it. Will do so at the end of this month in a workshop I’ll be presenting during an in-service teacher training session. Thanks a whole bunch! 🙂
Thank you for your kind words. Let me know how it goes, dear!
Great pronunciation activity, Luiz! You’ve tackled the tricky ones, caused by spelling and Phonotactics transfer from Portuguese. And by using authentic snippets you’ve made it even more appealing to young learners. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for your kind words!
Amazing website, teacheeeer!!!!
Thanks for sharing your brilliant work!!
Raquel, the one who has your mom´s name. hahahahha
Of course I remember you! Thanks for stopping by!
Nice one! Your work never ceases to amaze me, congrats!