MACMILLAN ENGLISH.




This excellent teaching tool gives audio examples of the English phoneme set. By clicking in each phoneme you can hear the sound in isolation and a sample word. The advantage of this tool is that your students can use it by themselves because it is very easy. You can also find guides, useful material, popular courses and tittles. Moreover, you can watch live talks, Macmillan online conferences, talks and workshops, giving teachers training workshops. We recommended it is full of information and useful tips for you. 
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BRITISH PRONUNCIATION VS. AMERICAN PRONUNCIATION

  


This video shows some consonant pronunciation differences between British and American English. This tool is useful to practice pronunciation with your students, exposing them to the variations between these two languages. Moreover, the use of videos is motivating. Using them you can carry on many activities that provide learners with visual and audio material. We strongly believe that videos are one of the essential tools that can complement your teaching.
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PHONETICS THE SOUND OF SPOKEN LANGUAGE





This is a tool that contains the American English, Spanish and German sounds. Firstly, you have to determine the language you want to work with. Secondly, you decide on a variety of options available in the site. Once you made your choice, the tool gives you an explanation step-by-step. Finally, you can see an animated video which shows you how the vocal organ works in the production of a consonant or vowel sounds. The video also provides audio, allowing your students to listen to the correct pronunciation of the sound in isolation or in context.This tool can help you when you are teaching the first concepts of phonetics. As regarding advantages, we can mention that all the sounds are available; each one with its own video and examples. However, you must have Flash 7 or higher plug-in and a good connection to use it.
We think that this tool is very functional to be used in your classes as well as at home. It gives your students the opportunity to appreciate in a visual way what they read in theory. 
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VOCAROO: RECORD AND SHARE YOUR AUDIOS

Vocaroo is a program that works very easily; you only have to click where it says “click to record” and start speaking on the microphone while Vocaroo records your message. Once you finished, you click on “click to stop” and the program starts processing your audio.Finally, the audio can be sent to someone via mail or you can copy a link which reproduces the audio you have already recorded.
This is an excellent tool that can be used to practice pronunciation. Regarding advantages we can mention that it is free, easy to use and allows you to share information. Moreover, the message length is not a problem and your personal information is not share. However, you need to have a good quality microphone, some accidents may and do happen and sometimes messages may get lost or corrupted. Moreover, Vocaroo does not provide a permanent storage. We will recommend this tool because it allows us to do many things. It is easy to use and a funny way to practice pronunciation and also speaking. 
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CAMBRIDGE ONLINE DICTIONARY




This tool is very useful for vocabulary and pronunciation. This online dictionary has many advantages. First, it includes variety such as business dictionary, essential British dictionary and learners' dictionary. Second, each word has its definition, an example, its synonyms or related words and its British and American pronunciation. Last but not least, the site includes different links like words of the day, a blog about English language behave and new words in English. The only disadvantage is that you need connection to Internet to use it because it cannot be downloaded. We think that this tool will help your students in the acquisition of new vocabulary.









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SPEECH ACCENT



This is a fantastic tool to practice pronunciation. It presents a large set of speech samples from a variety of language backgrounds. Native and non-native speakers of English read the same paragraph and are carefully transcribed. The archive is used to compare and analyze the accents of different English speakers. The tool has some advantages such as listening of different English speakers and analyses of different accents in deep. Moreover, there is a specific place to search what they want to listen to carefully. The only disadvantage is that you need to get the QuickTime plug-in program to play the sound clips. It is an excellent tool to work with your students. Your students can record their voices reading the paragraphs that appear in the program and they compare with the sound clips of the program finding mistakes and making improvements in their pronunciation.
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PERFECT PRONUNCIATION





This tool allows your students to work with the English sounds. You can teach your students some features about the sounds and them ask them to receive more input from audios. The exercises are divided into sections, and each one has the sound in context, in isolation, the practice and a quiz to evaluate themselves. To use it visit this site
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