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These pages provide listening and pronunciation help based on the use of Minimal Pairs. Each page includes a list of words that differ only in the "minimal" vowel sound. The pairs of words are first read to establish the difference...

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Minimal pairs. Great idea!

Would Admin happen to know of any downloadable teacher/student resources that list minimal pairs?

Maybe I'll do a search.
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I'm not sure about downloudables, but there is always this book:
http://publishing.cambridge.org/ge/e...y/26807/32100/
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I'm not sure about downloudables, but there is always this book:
http://publishing.cambridge.org/ge/e...y/26807/32100/

Thanks. It led me to some PDFs. There are some sample PDF documents to be found by going first to this page. I scavenge the stuff. I've got lots of PDFs from the net downloaded already.



http://publishing.cambridge.org/ge/elt/photocopy/
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