St Jordi

A rose...

...and a poem by Olivia McMahon: Learning a Language

And a  video HERE
and another video HERE

Happy Sant Jordi's day!

Have a good time!
Have fun!

Enjoy yourselves!

Enjoy your books and roses!

Your data

Mark lost track of your data

Minimal pairs

Chess? Cheese? Beach? .....? Pronunciation IS important. This story, already a classic by now, is particularly funny and illustrative of how a sound can completely change the meaning of a word ( sorry about the dirty words -I hope nobody takes offence ...:-)

 


  These words (Sheep/ship) are called “minimal pairs” (pairs of words which differ in only one 'sound' (phoneme) and have different meanings. Here (and in your book CD) you have many other good examples:
  http://www.shiporsheep.com/page1.html  (just put the cursor on the words, don't click on them)

Chinese satellite back to Earth

READ the story HERE