MindMap Gallery Pronunciation for IELTS
Pronunciation is an essential aspect of the IELTS (International English Language Testing System) exam, as it demonstrates your ability to communicate effectively in English. The mind map will include topics such as phonetic symbols, stress patterns, intonation, vowel and consonant sounds, connected speech, word and sentence stress, and common pronunciation errors. This comprehensive map will provide a structured approach to improving pronunciation skills for the IELTS exam, helping test-takers communicate effectively and confidently in English.
Edited at 2023-04-28 17:59:15Pronunciation is an essential aspect of the IELTS (International English Language Testing System) exam, as it demonstrates your ability to communicate effectively in English. The mind map will include topics such as phonetic symbols, stress patterns, intonation, vowel and consonant sounds, connected speech, word and sentence stress, and common pronunciation errors. This comprehensive map will provide a structured approach to improving pronunciation skills for the IELTS exam, helping test-takers communicate effectively and confidently in English.
Improving Pronunciation for IELTS is a comprehensive mind map designed to provide a structured approach to enhancing pronunciation skills for the International English Language Testing System (IELTS). This mind map aims to offer a visual representation of various strategies, techniques, and resources that can assist individuals in refining their pronunciation abilities, ultimately helping them excel in the IELTS examination.
Pronunciation is an essential aspect of the IELTS (International English Language Testing System) exam, as it demonstrates your ability to communicate effectively in English. The mind map will include topics such as phonetic symbols, stress patterns, intonation, vowel and consonant sounds, connected speech, word and sentence stress, and common pronunciation errors. This comprehensive map will provide a structured approach to improving pronunciation skills for the IELTS exam, helping test-takers communicate effectively and confidently in English.
Improving Pronunciation for IELTS is a comprehensive mind map designed to provide a structured approach to enhancing pronunciation skills for the International English Language Testing System (IELTS). This mind map aims to offer a visual representation of various strategies, techniques, and resources that can assist individuals in refining their pronunciation abilities, ultimately helping them excel in the IELTS examination.
Pronunciation for IELTS
How to improve ypur pronunciation for IELTS
Be conscious of how English differs from Vietnamese( and how that affects you pronunciation)
Tru to communicate a word in a different way if you have difficulty pronouncing it( synonyms, paraphase)
Learner's dictionary
Use a wide range of sources for listening
Don't speak too fast - it's better to speak clearly
Record yourself - especially for chunking
If you are unsure with your sound is correct, try to read a short passage in a book aloud for another student to write what you say
are there any words or sounds that thay have difficulty uderstanding
record yourself and listen back
A good way to practise intonation and fluency is by coping the rhythm of a native speakers
Choose a recording from a listening and play it at low volume
Read alound and a script and try to keeo the same time and intonation patterns as the speaker on the recording
Self-assessment: record yourself being interviewed and try to assess your own performance
Decide which areas you need to improve upon
Practise face-to-face just like the exam
What are the pronunciation "features" the examiner is listening for?
World stress
Stress in English can fall out on almost any syllable of a word
Word stress greatly affects comprehensibility
Sentence stress
Words which are usually unstressed in the middle of a sentence of a phrase are FUNCTION words
Prepositions
Be verb
Auxiliary verbs
Articles
Conjunctions
Personal pronouns
Weak sounds
English speech is "connected"
English is a continupus stream of sounds, without clear-cut stoppages between work
English is stress-timed, so in order to have rhythm we "swallow" non-essential works
Conjunctions, pronuous, prepositions, auxiliaries and articles are often lost
Example
And
Can
Or
Have
Should
Linking words
Should use simple and natural phrases to help the examiner follow your ideas
Study vocab related to:
Adding more information
Time phrase
Expressing ideas
Cause and solutions
Giving example
Being clear
Constrasting and concessions
Intonation
About how we say things, rather than what we say
Without intonation, it's impossible to understand the expresions and thoughts that go with words
Helps us say the same thing with different meanig
Chungking
Groups of words that often go together
A collocation
A functional expression such as these used for greetings
A fixed expression
A sentence starter
an idiom
How is pronunciation scored?
Band 6
Uses a range of pronuciation features with mixed control
Shows some effective use of features, but it's not sustained
Can generally understood throughout
Though mispronunciation of individual words
Sounds reduces clarity at times
Band 7
Shows all the positive features of Band 6
some features of Band 8 but not all
Band 8
Uses a wide range of pronunciation features
Sustais flexible use of features with only occasional lapses
easy to understand throughout
L1 accent has minimal effect on intelligibility
Band 9
Uses a full range of pronunciation features with precision and subtlety
Sustain flexible use of features throughout
easy to understand