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The Beautiful British English Pronunciation Programme
Introduction
Programme Instructions & Community Access (3:35)
Reminder - VIP Pack
Phonemic Chart
Week 1 - The Manner and Place of Articulation & The Schwa
Glossary of Terms
1.1 Welcome & Self-assessment (2:01)
1.2 The Vocal Tract (6:07)
1.3 Places of Articulation (10:14)
1.4 Manner of Articulation (9:16)
1.5 Introduction to Vowel Sounds (3:00)
1.6 The Schwa /ə/ (8:21)
1.6 Story - Digital Pyramid Adventures
Question & Community Link
🔒Week 1 VIP Tasks
Week 2 - Vowels 1
2.1 Umbrella/ʌ/ and Apple /æ/ (8:20)
2.1 Story a - Uncle Duncan’s Jungle Trouble
2.1b Story - Massive Mac the Rapper
2.2 Bin /ɪ/ and Bee /iː/ (9:44)
2.2a Story - Phoebe Felix and the Secret Police
2.2b Story - Tim Wins at the Gym
2.3 Broccoli /i/ (3:36)
2.3 Story - Lottery Tragedy
2.4 Book /ʊ/ and Moon /uː/ (10:14)
2.4a Story - Nanook Woofs at the Crook
2.4b Story - Museum Mutants and Stupid Stooges
2.5 Frog /ɒ/ and Paw/ɔː/ (9:08)
2.5a Story - From Mop to Yacht!
2.5b Story - Sean’s Short Story
Question & Community Link
🔒Week 2 VIP Tasks
Week 3 - Vowels 2
3.1 Feather /e/ and Pear /eə/ (8:12)
3.1a Story - Best Friends Forever
3.1b Story Weston-super-Mare’s tearaway becomes haircare billionaire
3.2 Star /ɑː/ and Turtle /ɜː/ (10:02)
3.2a Story - The Argy-Bargy barge
3.2b Story - Sherma’s Turbulent Journey
3.3 Bow /əʊ/ and Mouse /aʊ/ (8:43)
3.3a Story - The Slow Living Hosts
3.3b Story - Turn that frown upside down!
3.4 Cake /eɪ/ and Deer /ɪə/ (6:32)
3.4a Story - Bake Sale on the 8th of May!
3.4b Story - Cheer up Leah!
Question & Community Link
🔒Week 3 VIP Tasks
Week 4 - Vowels 3
4.1 Kite /aɪ/ and Oil /ɔɪ/ (9:30)
4.1a Story - Will Clyde Survive?
4.1b Story - Troy the Sailor Boy
4.2 Euro /ʊə/ (3:20)
4.2 Story - Euan’s Curious Rural Tour
4.3 The Magic ‘e’ (10:38)
4.3 Story - Fads that fade
4.4 Vowel Clusters (8:28)
4.4 Story - Freya the Soothsayer
4.5 How Written Vowels Change (10:07)
Question & Community Link
🔒Week 4 VIP Tasks
Week 5 - Consonants 1
5.1 Introduction to Consonant sounds (1:39)
5.2 Voiced and Unvoiced Consonants (8:35)
5.3 Approximants: Hand /h/ Wheel /w/ & Unicorn /j/ (12:01)
5.3a Story - Helen and Hans' Holiday
5.3b Story - When Whitney’s Wages Quadrupled!
5.3c Story - Eureka, Hallelujah!
5.4 Liquid Consonants: Rose /r/ & Lightbulb /l/ (11:30)
5.4a Story - The Tragic Robbers
5.4b - Little Holiday Planners
5.5 Nasal Consonants: Mushroom /m/ Nest /n/ & Flamingo /ŋ/ (11:25)
5.5a Story - The Mysterious Man from the Gym
5.5b Story - Donna the drone controller
5.5c Story - Single and ready to mingle!
Question & Community Link
🔒Week 5 VIP Tasks
Week 6 - Consonants 2
6.1 Plosives: Butterfly /b/ and Peacock /p/ (9:06)
6.1a Story - Polly the Polemic President
6.1b Story - Bob’s Brief Break
6.2 Plosives: Kangaroo/k/ and Ghost /g/ (9:36)
6.2a Story - The Compassionate Activist
6.2b Story - Gran’s Globetrotting Guest
6.3 Plosives: Doughnut /d/ and Tent /t/ (9:38)
6.3a Story - Lord Dennis’s Difficult Dilemma
6.3b Story - Tiny but mighty!
6.4 -ed endings (3:58)
6.4a Story - Excited to be invited!
6.4b Story - Why I detest processed food!
6.4c Story - The day the music died
Question & Community Link
🔒Week 6 VIP Tasks
Week 7 - Consonants 3
7.1 Fricatives: Shell /ʃ/ and Treasure /ʒ/ (9:21)
7.1 Story - On a mission to be posh
7.2 Fricatives: Fish /f/ and Volcano /v/ (8:35)
7.2 Story - Sven’s Valiant Valentine!
7.3 Fricatives: Price /s/ and Prize /z/ (9:52)
7.3 Story - Not all superheroes wear capes!
7.4 -es endings (10:20)
7.4 Story - Batches of lunches
Question & Community Link
🔒Week 7 VIP Tasks
Week 8 - Consonants 4
8.1 Thief and Smoothie (fricative) /θ/ /ð/ (8:55)
8.1 Story - Faithful Matthew
8.2 Torche and Hedgehog (affricate) /tʃ/ /dʒ/ (9:17)
8.2 Story - The Chess Bunch
8.3 Consonant Clusters (11:45)
8.3 Story - The Strangest Hosts
8.4 The glottal Stop: ʔ (2:50)
Question & Community Link
🔒Week 8 VIP Tasks
Week 9 - Connected Speech 1
9.1 How Written Consonants Change (15:04)
9.2 Silent Letters (12:55)
9.3 How Consonants and Vowels Connect (1:02)
9.4 Consonant to Vowel Connection (1:06)
9.5 Consonant to Consonant Connection (3:57)
9.6 How Consonants Lengthen (3:02)
Question & Community Link
🔒Week 9 VIP Tasks
Week 10 - Connected speech 2
10.1 Intrusion (2:37)
10.2 Linking ‘R’ (3:01)
10.3 Elision (3:48)
10.4 Omitting Consonants (2:08)
10.5 Omitting ‘L’ (0:44)
10.6 Omitting 'V' and 'D' (1:29)
10.7 Assimilation (9:14)
10.8 Contracted Forms (12:07)
10.9 Common Suffixes (3:30)
10.10 Prefixes (10:47)
Question & Community Link
🔒Week 10 VIP Tasks
Week 11 - Rhythm and stress 1
11.1 Rhythm Intro (0:35)
11.2 Rhythm (4:46)
11.3 Syllable Stress (1:19)
11.4 Two-syllable Nouns and Adjectives (0:42)
11.5 Two-syllable Verbs and Prepositions (0:45)
11.6 Verb/Noun Pairs (6:04)
Question & Community Link
🔒Week 11 VIP Tasks
Week 12 - Rhythm and stress 2
12.1 Intonation
12.2 Homophones and homographs
12.3 Dropping syllables
12.4 Ellipsis
12.5 Sentence Stress
🔒Week 12 VIP Tasks
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3.2 Star /ɑː/ and Turtle /ɜː/
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