Unit 6 Vocab Pronunciation Practice

Play this video to hear the pronunciation of Unit 6's "Places Around Town" vocab.

Touchstone Unit 2 Speaking Activity

LS2 Fall 2010
Unit 2A: Likes and Dislikes

Follow your instructor’s instructions to use and save your Audacity file. When you are finished, answer the questions below. Then save the file.

1. What is something you like to do? Why do you like it?

2. Name two activities you love to do.

3. What is an activity you can’t stand?

4. What is an activity you enjoy?

5. Can you play any instruments? Which ones?

6. What sports do you like to play?

7. In your free time, what do you like to do?

8. Do you prefer the food in America or your home country? What are some of your favorite foods? What are the ingredients in these foods?

Touchstone 9 Body Part Vocabulary

Your book talks a lot about body parts in Unit 9. This is a fun unit!

To help study the vocabulary for Unit 9 and parts of the human body, check out the links below:

Body Parts Reading Comprehension: This site lets you read a short article about the body and answer questions. Print your answers or email to your teacher.

Label the Body Parts: This online worksheet lets you label the bodyparts beside the body. It uses the same words we used in class.

Flashcards: To help you study, you can view or print these body part flashcards. Once you know the words, practice with these harder flashcards that don't give you the word!

Label the Face: This website lets you view or print a human face and practice writing the parts of the face.

Fun Flashcards: These funny flashcards help you practice the parts of the body. The easiest flashcards are Set A. Set B has some harder words, and Set C helps you study the parts of the face.

Advanced Body Parts Flashcards: If you already know how to use and spell all the body parts in the book, you can study and print these advanced flashcards to learn even more words!

Rules for Intonation and Speaking Naturally

Don't talk like a robot!

Intonation and emotion are very important. Here are some examples of word stress in English:

Rule #1: Put the stress on important words in the sentence.

• I really enjoy science.
• I am going to the movies tonight. (NOT "I am going to the movies tonight."

Rule #2: For questions that can be answered Yes or No, your voice should go up at the end:

• Are you a student?
• Do you like folk music?

Rule #3: For open questions, your voice should go down at the end:

• What do you do?
• What kind of music do you like?

Rule #4: When you are listing many things, your voice goes up for each item except the last one. Your voice goes down on the last item:

• Jana loves to dance, read, write papers, and sing.
• Last night for dinner I ate carrots, steak, and potatoes.

Rule #5: When you see a punctuation mark such as a comma (,) or period (.), you should pause in your speaking and take a breath. This will make you sound more natural:

• Good: English, in my opinion, is an easy language to learn. Students need to study hard.
• Bad: English in my opinion is an easy language to learn students need to study hard.

Rule #6: When a sentence uses a noun, the stress goes on the noun. When the sentences uses a pronoun instead of a noun, the stress goes on the verb:

• Jana teaches English.
• Jana teaches it.

Rule #7: If you want to change the meaning of the sentence, change the word stress. See the examples below:

• I didn't cheat on the test. (Laura did!)
• I didn't cheat on the test. (It never happened.)
• I didn't cheat on the test. (I cheated on the homework.)

Here is a site that will help you understand word stress and sentence intonation.


You can skip the beginning and go straight to the part that shows you how to speak naturally using correct intonation. The words in bold are the words that you should stress (or say louder).

Game with I and EEE Sounds

Many ESL students have difficulty with words that use the "i" sound like pin, his, and hit.

If you say "heat" when you meat "hit" or "He's" when you mean "his," this game is for you!

It will also help you hear and pronounce the difference in the R and L sounds.

Game for W and I sounds

This game is great because it allows ESL students to listen and work on many different sounds. The game uses the following words:

• wit
• wits
• win
• wins
• whip
• whips
• wick
• wicks
• wig
• wigs
• wing
• wings

If you have trouble with the "W" or the "WH" sound, or pronouncing the "i" sound in words like hit, pin, and sister, this game will help you! Listen and repeat while you are playing.

Have fun!

Listen to the "TH" sound

If you need more practice on the "th" sound in English, you're not alone! Many ESL students pronounce the "th" sounds incorrectly like a "z" or an "s" sound. Although the "z" and "s" are similar to the "th", they are not the same.

Check out the sites below and practice repeating the sounds you hear.

1. Go here and listen to the difference in TH and Z.
2. Then listen to the difference between TH and S.
3. Last, make sure you can hear and pronounce the difference between TH and T.