Pronunciation & Synonyms

Week 19^{th -} 21^st November

We started with pronunciation. It was interesting identifying the international phonetic symbols, don’t you think?

It wasn’t less interesting, although more difficult, trying to reproduce the sounds and to pronounce  some words properly!

The teacher is rather “wicked” and made you listen to a poem entitled “Hints on English Pronunciation.” It was good practice, wasn’t it?

The poem was based on the different pronunciation of similar groups of syllables. And to round up the subject, we studied some homophones: words with the same pronunciation but different meanings.

To make the week even harder, we saw some synonyms.

Remember:

Little girls giggle when they think something is funny, with their hands in front of their mouths.

Little boys snigger, laugh unpleasantly, when they are laughing at someone who has done something they think is stupid.

To chuckle is a nice way of laughter.

You burst out laughing when you suddenly laugh very loudly.

When you laugh so much that it starts to hurt, you are in stitches.

And also:

If you really hate something, you loathe it or detest it.

Abhor is quite formal.

When you despise someone, you dislike them strongly because you have absolutely no respect for them.

And we finished with a multiple choice exercise, but we’ll continue talking about that next week.

Ready to work hard?