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SYLLABUS: PRONUNCIATION

Part 1: Course Information


Instructor information:
Instructor:
Telephone:
E-mail:

Course Description:
Objectives:
- Improve pronunciation/awareness of sounds, intonation, stress...
- Distinguish some vowels and consonants with their confusing sounds
- Know exactly how to read transcription and pronounce words
Course length:
15 hours (90 minutes per lesson x 10 lessons)
Timetable:
- Starting date:
- Finish date:

Course Materials:
- Textbook: Ship or sheep, Tree or three, Pronunciation pairs, English pronunciation in
use (elementary)
- Extra sites for reference:

Examination:
- Mid-term test (Optional): on the 5th lesson
- Assessment for each student will be made continuously by teacher from lesson
number 5 to the last. The final result is the average mark of the 5 lessons. Teacher
makes comment on study attitude and academic improvement. The result should be
resent via emails to the Academic division THREE days at the latest (after the test
date) to be informed to students and parents.
Part 2: Course Outline
No Units Content

- Letters and sounds


 Spelling & Pronunciation - The differences between Vietnamese
1
sounds and English sounds

- Overview of the phonemic chart


 Pizza for Dinner /i:/ /i/ (referential)
2  A Spoonful of
Sugar /u:/ /ʊ/ /p/ /b/, /t/ /d/

 Father and
Mother
/ɑː/ /ʌ/ (referential)
3 Monothongs  A Dog in the
/ɒ/ /ɔː/ /k/ /g/, /f/ /v/
Corner

 Bread and Jam


/e/ /æ/ (referential)
4 My mother’s
birthday
/ɜː/ /ə/ /θ/ /ð/, /s/ /z/

/eɪ/ /aɪ/ /ɔɪ/


5  Have a Great
Time! Midterm test
Diphthongs
 Here and There /ɪə/ /eə/ (referential)
6
 Old Town /əʊ/ /aʊ/ /ʃ/ /ʒ/, /tʃ/ /dʒ/

/m/ /n/ /ŋ/ /h/


7 Other consonants
/l/ /r/ /w/ /j/

Stressed syllables in words


8 Stress
Stressed words in a sentence
9 Revision  Monothongs
 Diphthongs
 Consonants (plosive and fricative)
 Practice speaking and reading passages
aloud

10 Final test

Notes: The contents in red are the main purpose of each lesson. The referential parts
are the optional contents that teachers may flexibly explain to students

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