Free English Lessons Word Wall in Mavericks High School (Intro)
Channel: freeenglishlessons
Date: 2011-06-22

The Word Wall in room 209 was created by Milena Toro (Ms. Toro) and it's delightful!   The key is to read the pieces in groups.  The composition comes from an online poem.  The beautify of English comes in listening to the rhymes.  The difficulty comes in the spelling.

This series was videorecorded by Quinton Baker, one of the students at Mavericks.  He has a career ahead of him in production and he is an example of the next generation of "using video to explain an idea" -- I hope he learns how to use a tripod.


Spelling tells you something about WHERE the words come from.   BEAUTIFUL is crazy  Bi U ti ful...  but we spell according to the FRENCH system.  (Who got the idea that EAU sounds like "o" ...  The French say BO te   (or  "BO  Tay" in US writing)... the the EAU tells us that the wordBEAUTIFUL  came from FRENCH, so we need to know something about French spelling and pronunciation and British culture to get the pronunciation of beauty correct.

We need to know British culture, the culture of ANGLICIZING, to convert a word to resemble English Words)


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Free English Lessons Word Wall in Mavericks High School (Intro)   Pronunciation Practice  

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This is the INTRODUCTION


A poem from George Bernard Shaw
60 years ago, this Irish Nobel Prize in literature died. To commemorate this anniversary, please find below one of his greatest writings, to you non-native english speakers. Pronounce it right, and if you do it right - congratulations.
Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it's written.)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.
Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
Exiles, similes, and reviles;
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far;
One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind.
Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.
Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.

... and there is more... 

seen at http://www.spichtinger.net/otexts/tough.htm