Alice in Wonderland: Caterpillar Sequence
Common mistakes when Spanish and Latin American students learn English include confusing an A /eɪ/ with an I /ɑɪ /, an I /ɑɪ/ with an E /iː/, a C /siː/ with a Z /ziː/, and pronouncing R /er/ instead of /ɑː/. To help them with these MAJOR problems, for they are major problems whatever people may say, I make them watch the caterpillar sequence from Walt Disney’s adaptation of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The transcript of the dialogues at the bottom of this post can be used to practice the vowel s A /eɪ/, E /iː/, I /ɑɪ/, O /əʊ/, U /ju:/, and the letter R /ɑː/, and Lewis Carroll’s poem How Doth the Little Crocodile, a parody of the moralistic poem Against Idleness And Mischief by Isaac Watts, to practice the diphthongs /ɑɪ/, as in ‘Nile’ and / eɪ /, as in ‘scales’.
Tacita Dean’s Film as Seen by Richard Dorment
Click on the link above. Watch the video and listen to the way Richard Dorment pronounces the words film, artist, hall, whole, ramp, staircase, level, escalator, up, behind, canvas, again, and dramatic. Do you recognize any of the following vowel sounds in them?
[ɑː] [æ] [e] [ə] [ɪ] [ɒ] [ʊ] [ʌ] [ɑɪ] [eɪ] [əe] [əʊ]
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