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Comedy for ELT - Pronunciation problems

mousse - purée - apricot - bicarbonate of soda – brass – brassiere – cake – ears –
haberdashery – juice – marmalade – soap – toast – tongue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzeEq5MvNFg

Poster activities
G: articles – plural nouns – passive – tenses – imperatives – possessives
V: health - illnesses – activities – clothes – advice – opinion
P: difficult words (cough / throat / antibiotics / bandage)

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50 commonly mispronounced (tricky) words Part 1

aisle – answer – archive – bury – bush – butcher – castle – chaos – clerk – colonel –

comb – comfortable – cupboard – cushion - desert – dessert – famous – fruit –

graduate – hierarchy – height – instead – jewellery – knee – knight – lettuce –

mortgage – muscles – pear – penguin – plumber – queue - quiet – quit – quite –

receipt – recipe – record – salmon – scissors – stomach – swan – swap – sweater –

sword - unleaded petrol – wolf – won - wounded - yolk

50 commonly mispronounced (tricky) words Part 2

ant – asthma – aunt – bandage – beard – blood – bomb – bucket – busy – chew – choir

– climber – debt – depth – drawers – forehead – gorgeous – hours – hygiene – instead

– iron – island – key – laughter – mousse – moustache – natural – neighbour – onion –

other – oven – owl – plague – poor – private – put – restaurant - sauna – school –

science – since – ski – society – theory – tomb – vase – worry – wreath – write –

yacht

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Silent letters

A – logically, artistically, musically

B – doubt, debt, climber, tomb, comb, thumb, plumber
C – fascinate, muscle, scene, scissors, acquire
CH - yacht
D – handkerchief, handsome, Wednesday, sandwich, grandmother
E – brake, made, mate, wine
G – campaign, design, foreign, reign, sign, champaign, high, light, through
H – heir, honour, honest, hour, ghost, what, when, rhythm, whale, while
I - business
K – knee, kneel, knife, knight, know
L – calm, calf, half, yolk, palm, chalk, talk, walk, should, would, almond,
salmon
M - mnemonic
N – autumn, column, damn, hymn
O - colonel
P – psychic, psychology, receipt
S – aisle, island
T – fasten, listen, mortgage, soften, castle, ballet, buffet, debut, beret, asthma
U – biscuit, build, guilty, vogue, guess, guide, guitar, antique, colleague, guard,
tongue
W – wrap, write, answer, sword, two, whole, who, whom, whose
X – faux pas
Z - rendezvous

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Examples:

• He ___ the ball ___ the net (through / threw)

• We are not ___ to read ___ in the library (aloud / allowed)
• The policeman ___ the driver as he couldn´t ___ car papers. (find / fined)

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