in touch with real speech
Speech in Action
In touch with real speech

Mountains not Monotones

mountainsClick on the image to get a pdf of my presentation at PronSIG Brighton, 8th October 2016.

Teaching presentation skills: Some of my postgraduate students (Electronic and Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering) had a problem with monotonous delivery of carefully prepared speech. I devised materials using graphics, text, and sound chunks from Martin Hewings’s Cambridge Academic English Intermediate textbook. 

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