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Friday, October 26, 2007

English Pronunciation Song

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.
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 your pronunciation's OK
When you correctly say croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.
Ivy, privy, famous; clamour

And enamour rhyme with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger,
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.
Finally, which rhymes with enough -

Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is to give up!!!

Excerpt taken from "The Chaos" G. Noist Trenité

Proverbs 7

If the blind lead blind both shall fall into the ditchاذا قاد الأعمى أعمى مثله كلاهما سوف يقع فى الحفره
If you sing before breakfast you will cry before dinnerاذا غنيت قبل الإفطار سوف تبكى قبل العشاء (الدنيا غداره)If you want a thing well done, do it yourselfاذا أردت أن يتم الشىء على أكمل وجه فافعله بنفسك
If you want peace, be prepared for warاذا أردت السلام فكن مستعداً للحربI
ll-gotten gains never prosperالمكسب الحرام لا يثمر أبداً
Ill news travels apace(Fast)الأخبار السيئه تنتشر بسرعه
It is no use crying over the spilt milkلا جدوى من البكاء على اللبن المسكوب
It is too late to lock the stable door when the horse is stolenمن المتأخر جداً أن تغلق باب الإسطبل بعد سرقة الحصان

Wednesday, October 3, 2007

English Teachers' Barriers to the Use of CALL

Computers have been used for language teaching ever since the 1960's. This 40-year period can be divided into three main stages:
(a) Behaviorist CALL,
(b) Communicative CALL,
(c) Integrative CALL.
Each stage corresponds to a certain level of technology and certain pedagogical theories. The reasons for using Computer-assisted Language Learning include:
(a) Experiential learning,
(b) Motivation,
(c) Enhance student achievement,
(d) Authentic materials for study,
(e) Greater interaction,
(f) Individualization,
(g) Independence from a single source of information,
(h) Global understanding.
The barriers inhibiting the practice of Computer-assisted Language Learning can be classified in the following common categories:
a) Financial barriers,
b) Availability of computer hardware and software,
c) Technical and theoretical knowledge,
d) Acceptance of the technology.