ACCENT

NEUTRALISATION
(1 day)
ABOUT THIS COURSE
This workshop provides the necessary tools to help learners speak English
more clearly and coherently, whether face-to-face or over the phone.
The workshop is suitable for professionals who want to improve their
pronunciation at work, or for non-professionals who simply want to speak
with greater confidence.

CONTENT
Be introduced to phonology and the English phonemic chart.
Practise discriminating between different vowel sounds and diphthongs.
Practise with the difficult consonant sounds (consonant clusters).
Practise using appropriate word and sentence stress.
Use intonation to convey meaning.
Learn how to speak effectively in public with the right pace and pausing.
Recognise different accents and their appropriacy in International English.

For more information on workshops please contact:

kualalumpur.pdu@britishcouncil.org.my
www.britishcouncil.org.my/PDU
Tel: (03) 27237900

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT UNIT

CORPORATE TRAINING

How much can I expect to learn?

This one-day course provides an
excellent guide on how to copewith the
various challenges that speakers of
Malaysian English meet on a daily basis,
when dealing with non-Malaysians.

Accent Neutralisation
This enlightening workshop helps you improve your pronunciation, tone,
pace and pausing by highlighting particular problem areas for Malaysian
speakers of English.
You will play a variety of pronunciation games, use the British Councils
interactive phonemic chart* and make digital recordings of your voice.
Feedback on your strengths and weaknesses will ensure you immediately
improve your pronunciation.

Who The Course Is For

This course is for anyone who wants to improve the clarity of their pronunciation in English.

Benefits

Learning Objectives

After this one-day workshop you will

be able to:

You can expect to:

have an awareness of where your strengths and

weaknesses in speaking English
have an awareness of in/polite intonation
have a greater understanding of English
pronunciation and stress

improve your pronunciation of English words

improve the clarity of your speech by controlling
pace and stress
become aware of your voice as a business tool
ensure you use polite language and intonation

Course Outline
Stress

Introduction
Strengths and weaknesses; sounds and spelling
The phonetic alphabet and the dictionary

Vowels
Discriminating between different vowels and
diphthongs
Problem sounds & words

Consonants

Pace, Pausing and Intonation

Pace, pausing, clarity and polite intonation
Chunking and avoiding the machine gun effect
Mood (recognizing frustration/irritation)
*On-site courses only.

Understanding consonants
Voicing: plosives, affricates and fricatives
Problem words

Individual price: RM 730

(includes lunch & refreshments)
To run this workshop at your premises: RM 4,200
(up to 20 participants)*

Linking
What is linking?
Putting words together

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT UNIT

Syllable and word stress

Stress in phrases and compound nouns
The schwa, function words, sentence stress (word,
sentence and contrastive)

*This price does not include the cost of transporting the trainer to and from
your premises

CORPORATE TRAINING