UNIT 2. ENGLISH IN THE WORLDListening

Listen to the conversation. Write the missing words.

It is not easy for adult students of English to improve their pronunciation. Unlike children, adults often find it hard to the way they speak. This is why adult students have more difficulties in developing speaking than children. First of all, don't worry about not a native-English accent. It's more important to be able to speak , so that people can understand you. Then there are several things that international students of English can do to improve pronunciation and to learn English well. An English helps you a lot in that it shows you the phonetic pronunciation of every word, which part of the word is stressed. You also join an English pronunciation class, or practise speaking and to native-English speakers as much as possible. Watching TV programmes in English is another way of improving your pronunciation. Above all, the best way to improve your pronunciation is to learn English in an English-speaking country where you can learn the as well as its culture.