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difficult language!
Why do Korean Students learn
English?
• Opportunity
• Opportunity
• Opportunity
Problems teaching English
• The number 1 problem that English
teachers have in Korea is trying to get
students to speak in English.
• Students feel embarrassed and self
conscious when speaking because they
do not speak perfectly
• This is true in every country!
Problems learning English
• Grammar and sentence structure
• First language interference
• Intonation
• Pronunciation
Grammar and sentence structure
• English grammar is very strange.
• For example you only need to look at
how to form the simple past tense of
verbs.
“If fight becomes fought
then surely Light becomes lought”
“If fly becomes flew
then surely try becomes trew”
“If write becomes wrote
then surely bite becomes bote”
Grammar and sentence structure
• Nouns • Determiners
• Most principal verbs • Auxiliary verbs
• Adjectives • Prepositions
• Adverbs • Conjunctions
• Pronouns
How to learn intonation?
• Listen to native speakers
• Try to mimic voice patterns
• Sing!
Pronounciation
Often students will ask me “Why is ….
Pronounced like this when it’s spelt like …”
The answer…
To keep English teachers in business ^.^
Pronunciation
• There are two main reasons why English
spelling seems to have no rules
• First external influences – words from
other languages
• The alphabet
How do we learn how to correctly
pronounce English?
Practice!
Some samples of English
pronunciation
• Heteronyms, homographs and
homophones
• English is a dreadful language
• English is tough stuff
Web resources
Here are some helpful web resources with
lots of information and exercises about
pronunciation, intonation and grammar
•www.esl.about.com
•www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/index.htm
•www.dvc.edu/english/Learning_Resources/WhyEnglishIsSoHard.htm
•www.mapping.com/englishhard.html