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Old 06-Feb-2008, 17:26
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Question teaching the short i

Hey,

I am teaching American English Accent to some employees of an American call center overseas. I find that they have a very difficult time grasping the short i sound and some can't even detect the difference between the short i and the long E sounds when they are saying the words. Please help!! Do you have any ideas as to exercises we might do to help them?

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Elizabeth
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Old 07-Feb-2008, 10:24
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If you have access to a cassette recorder, you could borrow a couple of ideas from a British English EFL book called Headway Pronunciation (Elementary Level) from OUP ISBN 9 780194 339407.
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Try this website for phonetic activities, information gaps and even MP3s, I've used one of these lesson plans before and it worked really well.


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I just tried to reply to this so sorry if this comes up twice, but see

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Every phonetics lesson has a range of listening and production activities.
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