ELTWeekly Issue#23, Article: Pronunciation points you can cover with Business classes

By Tarun Patel

Pronunciation points you can cover with Business classes

By Alex Case

his is a brainstormed list of things that could be included on a syllabus for a Business English and/ or ESP speaking and/ or pronunciation course, including a few teaching ideas on how to tackle those points. For more information and resources on pronunciation practice for Business students, see the Market Leader Practice files (workbooks- the sections near the back) and my article from English Teaching Professional Magazine on the Articles page of TEFLtastic.

Language Points to Include and Possible Words/ Expressions for a Business English Speaking and Pronunciation course

Key Basics
alphabet and acronyms- inc. e-mail address
names of countries and cities
weights and measures???
numbers?

Making distinctions
Stressed and unstressed aux verbs= use of short forms
Short and long vowel sounds
ow and O
or and O
o and O
i and ee
for and four
to and two
we go and we’ll go

Read the rest of article at http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/articles/bus-eng-esp/business-english-pronunciation-points/

Alex Case has been a teacher, teacher trainer, Director of Studies, ELT writer and editor in Turkey, Thailand, Spain, Greece, Italy, Japan, UK and now Korea, and writes TEFLtastic blog (www.tefl.net/alexcase)

*ELTWeekly would like to thankAlex Case for contributing this article.

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June 28th, 2009

About... Tarun Patel

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Tarun Patel (http://tarunpatel.net/blog/) is an ELT and Communication skills teacher, working with Charotar University of Science & Technology (CHARUSAT - http://charusat.ac.in/). He has been dealing with the Language learning processes for last seven years. 'Technology in Teaching English' is his favorite domain and he has presented several research papers in national and international conferences on the same theme. He is the founder editor of ELTWeekly (http://eltweekly.com/), India's first weekly ELT eNewsletter which reaches in more than forty countries and benefits more than 1600d teachers of English and Communication Skills. Have a look at his personal blog http://tarunpatel.net/blog/.