In my previous article on pronunciation I introduced Adrian Underhill’s “3 Levels of Pronunciation“. Why am I recommending material from another teacher? Simple. I believe in giving you the best material I find for learning no matter where it’s from, and Adrian Underhill is a world-renowned expert in pronunciation. In this article, I’ve compiled a list of Adrian’s 12 vowel instruction […]
IELTS Speaking: 12 Vowel Pronunciation Master Lessons with Adrian Underhill
IELTS Grammar: Past Tense Mistakes
One of the most common errors I hear during IELTS speaking practice is using present tense instead of past tense. Something like the following sentence: Last Saturday my friends and I go to the store and buy ice cream. Can you find the mistakes with the verb tenses? (Hint: “go” and “buy”) It looks quite easy, but it’s surprisingly […]
IELTS Master Highlights: Volume 3
It’s my job to get you the best IELTS material, whether it’s from me or someone else. Here are some of the highlights from this week: IELTS Reading: Newsela article on Robots and Health IELTS Writing: IELTS Simon on Task 1 Pie Charts IELTS Speaking: IELTS Advantage on Pronunciation General Speaking: Expert Adrian Underhill on English […]
IELTS Speaking: The Three Levels of Pronunciation
English Pronunciation expert Adrian Underhill divides pronunciation skills into three levels… Level 1: Individual Sounds (the individual sounds in English like /r/ or /l/) Level 2: Words (including stress) Level 3: Connected Speech (rhythm, sentence stress) In order to do level 3 well, you need to have strong fundamentals in level 1 and level 2. For more […]
IELTS Speaking: Practicing Pronunciation
What are you doing to practice your pronunciation? Are you focusing on speaking clearly? Have you been practicing correct sentence stress? How about connected speech? Can you pronounce all of the English phonemes correctly and consistently? If you’re hoping to get a high score on speaking, you should be practicing all of these. Remember…pronunciation is worth 25% of […]