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British Isles and City Names Listen in Skills/listening part Country City The United Kingdom Bournemouth Great Britain Canterbury England Carlisle Wales Chester Scotland Middlesbrough Northern Ireland Durham The Republic Of Ireland Edinburgh Aberdeen Gloucester Ipswich Norwich Keswick Oxford Leicester Plymouth Colchester Reading Manchester Shrewsbury Northampton Swansea Taunton Worcester Warwick York

Geographical Names A Afghanistan / Afghan, Afghani Africa / African Albania / Albanian Algeria / Algerian America  American Andorra / Andorran  Angola / Angolan Antarctica / Antarctic Arctic Ocean  Argentina / Argentinian Armenia/ Armenian Asia / Asian Atlantic Ocean  Australia / Australian Austria / Austrian Azerbaijan / Azerbaijani B Bahamas / Bahamian Bahrain / Bahraini Bangladesh / Bangladeshi  Barbados / Barbadian Belarus

Phonetic Symbols – Consonants Letter B /b/ sound: /b/ as in “butter,” “bag,” “box,” “bank,” “belt.” Letter C /k/ sound: /k/ as in “call,” “cat,” “cold,” “smart,” “clean.” /s/ sound: /s/ as in “cinema,” “cell,” “pen,” “city,” “apartment.” Letter D /d/ sound: /d/ as in “duck,” “down,” “drive,” “dig,” “drown,” “drink.” Letter F /f/ sound:

Silent Letters Silent Letters In English, some letters are not pronounced and remain silent. These letters are called “Silent letters”. There are tens of silent letters in English. Let’s have a look at some common words with silent letters: Letter “B” is not pronounced climb Letter “C” is not pronounced Letter “D” is not pronounced

PRONUNCIATION Difficult to pronounce 30 difficult words to pronounce Recently we have chosen the first 30 most difficult words along with audio practice . February Foreign Clothes Desert Dessert Mosque tongue Governor during Arctic Because Listen Answer Comb Doubt Headache Bored Tired Honest Muscle Daughter Whistle island Scissors vocabulary psychologist pronunciation introduce instruction. various

WORD POWER/CONFUSING WORDS 1. ADVISE Advise means to offer suggestions about the best course of action to someone. Example sentences: 2. SUGGEST Suggest means to put forward an idea or proposal for consideration. Example sentences: 3. RECOMMEND Recommend means to advise or suggest something as a course of action. Example sentences: Lesson 2 1. Capacity

English Tongue Twisters for Improved Pronunciation and Fluency Peter Piper Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked. If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, Where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked? Susie in a Shoe Shine Shop I saw Susie sitting in

Lesson 1: “I” and “me” “I” and “me” are often confused in English. For example: My brother and I are flying to the USA tomorrow. The head master of English Department gave the “Best of the week” award to me. Lesson 2: “emigrant” and “migrant” What’s “emigrant”? It means a person who leaves the country

Confusing Words / I am going to make a cake Lesson 1 We will focus on the most confused words “make and do” and “lend, borrow and loan”. Make: /meɪk/ to make, to bring into being. To produce something new by putting the pieces together, to build. Example sentences: Do: /du:/ to do, rather “do”

Th Words  PRONUNCIATION -TH WORDS In English, we have seen the sign ( θ ) in dictionaries. This sign indicates that the syllable should be read with a lisp. We can do lisp reading as follows: We put our tongue against our upper teeth and say the letter ” t “.Some Words : Three Thirsty