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About
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Why
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| Catz In Conversation - Dr Cynthia Grover, 'Teaching English: Creating Accents' [YouTube video] | YouTube
video of my talk on how to teach the pronunciation of English in
international environments in a way that addresses teachers' and students' common problems. This talk was hosted by St. Catherine's College, Oxford University on 3 December 2025. | Many
teachers are uncertain about what pronunciation to teach and how to
teach it. The tips in this talk should give them more confidence
in the classroom. |
Teaching English: Creating Accents .pdf transcript
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Manual transcription of the YouTube video of my talk Teaching English: Creating Accents, part of the series Catz In Conversation, hosted by St. Catherine's College, Oxford University on 3 December 2025. |
Automatically generated subtitles are inadequate, due in part to the many phonetic symbols and terms used in the talk.
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Instructions for creating a pronunciation exercise with ChatGPT
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Example instructions
to get ChatGPT to an exercise that plays a phrase, records the
student's repetition of the phrase, scores the phrase for
comprehensibility, and saves the score in a .csv file
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Speech recognition
and scoring gives feedback to a student that enables them to improve
their pronunciation. The saved scores show the teacher the results.
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H phrase pronunciation exercise Runs in Google Chrome
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Is he on hold? He has his house. Alternating syllable with and without initial h
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Master speech movements by integrating them in difficult rhythms
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H phrase pronunciation exercise output
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Scores from doing the H phrase exercise in an example .csv file of scores.
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Track improvement and show that the exercise was done.
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| H phrase exercise software code in html | .html Code written by ChatGPT on my instructions. (vibe code) | Example of how to create your own software code for a speech recognition exercise with the help of ChatGPT. |
Conditional
clauses and verbs exercise
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0, 1, 2, 3,
conditionals, 'if' and other conjunctions
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1 page, tests 10
examples of each conditional structure
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Conditional clauses and verbs explained
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0, 1, 2, 3
conditionals and 'if'
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1 page, explains
confusing points
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Conjugation chart
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Active tenses
regular verbs |
1 page table,
consistent terms
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How to take notes
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How to take good
meeting notes
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1 page printable
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No and not
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When to use 'no' and
'not'
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1 page, shows
alternative uses
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Preposition Song 1
video
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Where is the coffee
machine? Giving directions.
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karaoke chant makes
learning prepositions more fun
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Preposition Song 1 text
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Giving directions to
find the coffee machine
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printable to
accompany YouTube video
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Relative
clauses
and commas
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How to use 'which',
'that', 'who',
'whose' and 'what' with and without a comma
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1 page, shows
alternative uses
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What and
that exercise
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'what' and 'that'
(relative pronoun) when they head subordinate clauses
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1 page, tests some
confusing points |
What and
that explained
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'what' and 'that'
(relative pronoun) when they head subordinate clauses |
1 page, explains
confusing points |
