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English Conversation
Laboratory sessions:
1. Introduction to the Sounds of English- Vowels, Diphthongs & Consonants.
2. Introduction to Stress and Intonation.
3. Situational Dialogues / Role Play.
4. Oral Presentations- Prepared and Extempore.
5. ‘Just A Minute’ Sessions (JAM).
6. Describing Objects / Situations / People.
7. Information Transfer
8. Debate
9. Telephoning Skills.
10. Giving Directions.

1.Introduction to Sounds of English - Vowels, Diphthongs,
Consonants
Language has a very important social purpose, because it is mainly used for linguistic communication. A language can be used in two ways for the purposes of communication; it can be spoken or written. Linguistics is a systematic study of language. Phonetics is a branch of linguistics and it is the branch dealing with the medium of speech. It deals with the production, transmission and reception of the sounds of human speech.
Speech Sounds are very broadly divided in to two categories, namely vowels and consonants.
Vowels : There are twenty distinctive vowel sounds, made up of twelve pure vowels or monophthongs and eight vowel glides or diphthongs. Vowels are the most important sounds. Every word has to have a vowel sound .To articulate vowels one needs to allow free flow of air through the mouth. By altering the shape of one‟s lips or the tongue position one can articulate various vowels.
Vowels are of two kinds – Pure vowels and Diphthongs. Of the twelve pure vowels or Monophthongs seven are short and five are long. We notice that the sounds indicated by the long vowels are stretched and the sounds indicated by the short vowels are clipped. Besides Monophthongs there are eight vowel sounds called
Diphthongs. They are actually combinations of two vowel sounds with the voice gliding from one sound to another. Thus with a sound like the one indicated by the underlined letter in bay , the parts of the mouth concerned with the pronunciations here first take up
the

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