PRONUCIATION WORKSHEET

Have a great time with pronunciation. Visit the sites and enhance your
pronunciation. Everyone agrees with the fact that every speaker is a particular
world, including its particular way of pronunciation. Although every speaker got to
be as clear as it can to gain access to a common channel.
Here we are, we offer you a phonemic chart to practice, some funny pronunciation
exercises, if you explore the site, and finally some information about the two main
types of pronunciation where you can find real reasons to choose between
American pronunciation and British pronunciation.
Bon Voyage!
Great Cambridge site full of resources
http://cambridgeenglishonline.com/Phonetics_Focus/




Phonemic Chart
https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/phonemic-chart

American or British? Which is best?







American pronunciation
In the context of language learning, American pronunciation means General
American (GenAm) pronunciation. This is the pronunciation used by educated
Americans, on television and on radio. It is described in dictionaries of American
English, such as the Merriam-Webster and Random House dictionaries.
Most Americans and Canadians speak something similar to General American.
Whether youre in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Seattle or Toronto, you will
generally hear the same accent. There are some regional differences, but they are
usually very small. The only major exception is the South of the US (especially
outside of big cities), which has its own distinct accent.
General American pronunciation is rhotic, which means that the letter r is always
pronounced.

British pronunciation
When people talk about learning British pronunciation, they usually think
of Received Pronunciation (RP). RP is the pronunciation of the British upper class;
it is sometimes called the Queens English. This is the pronunciation that you will
learn at a British language school; it is also the model taught in coursebooks and
dictionaries from publishers like Oxford and Longman.
In the UK, only a small percentage of people speak something similar to RP these
are upper-class people, academics, actors, TV personalities, politicians and English
teachers. Outside of these groups, RP-like pronunciation is used in the southeast of
England in the area near Oxford, Cambridge, Brighton and London although
most people in that area actually speak Estuary English, which is significantly
different from RP.
Normal Britons usually speak with their local accents, which are often quite
different from RP, and can be very hard to understand to untrained ears.
Sometimes cities that are only 20 km apart have very different accents. (The British
Library has an interactive map of the UK which lets you listen to someexamples of
British accents from various areas.)
RP is non-rhotic, which means that the letter r is usually silent, unless it is
followed by a vowel. Heres how it works:
In words like car, tower, inform and first, r is silent (r is not followed by a vowel).
In words like red, foreign, print, r is pronounced (r is followed by a vowel).
R is also pronounced at the end of a word, if the next word starts with a vowel, for
example: number eight, far away.
Most RP speakers also insert an r in phrases like: the idea(r) of, Africa(r) and
Asia, law(r) and order. This r is not in the spelling; they just use it to separate two
vowels.
The following pairs sound exactly the same in
RP: or/awe, court/caught,sore/saw, farther/father, formerly/formally. In
General American, they all sound different.
Which one should you choose?
To choose between American and British pronunciation, you need to answer two
questions:
1. which one will be more useful to you?
2. which one will be easier to learn for you?
On the first question, you should remember that whether you choose General
American or RP, you will be understood by all English speakers, because everyone
familiar with both of these accents from TV and movies. So the objective
usefulness of GenAm and RP is about the same. Still, if you know youre
going to be talking mainly to people who have a particular accent, you may want to
learn a similar accent (or you may decide that it is better tostand out).
For example, if you are planning to move to England, or if you have many English
friends, you may want to learn RP. Of course, the accent of most Britons is quite
different from RP, so you will probably stand out anyway. (Speakers of GenAm will
have a much better chance of blending in withAmericans, as there are fewer
regional differences in the US.)
The second question is more tricky. Here, the most important thing are your
individual circumstances, such as:
Whether you simply prefer one of the accents (for example, because it sounds
more pleasant, more sexy, more intelligent, more powerful, etc. to you). If you want to
get results, you have to be excited about learning English pronunciation. The more
attractive your goal seems to you, the more motivation you will have.
Which accent you find easier to imitate. Sometimes people find they have
a knack for one, but not the other.
Which accent your friends are learning. It is easier to learn if you cantalk things
through with your friends.
Which accent your teacher speaks. (Same reason as above.)
Whether you are interested in science or computing. GenAm is more
frequently used in those fields and if you are interested in them, you will hear it more
often and will find it easier to learn.

Reference:
http://www.antimoon.com/how/pronunc-american-british.htm
https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/phonemic-chart
http://cambridgeenglishonline.com/Phonetics_Focus/