This video lesson provides a detailed explanation of intonation. Stress and intonation are closely associated with spoken English. While we observe stress at the word and sentence level, intonation is...

This video lesson provides a detailed explanation of stress in the English language. Stress is the emphasis placed on a syllable in a word or a word in a sentence....

This video lesson provides a detailed explanation of syllable. Syllables are the smallest unit of language that can be pronounced. In the actual speech process, a speaker puts speech sounds...

This video lesson provides a detailed explanation of the approximant sounds. These are sounds produced with minimal or no obstruction of the air stream. In producing the approximant sounds, the articulators...

This video lesson provides a detailed explanation of the Affricates and Nasal sounds. They are both produced with total obstruction of the air passage. However, affricate sounds are produced by...

This video lesson provides a detailed explanation of the fricative sounds which are produced with a partial closure of the speech track. There are 9 fricatives in phonetics and each...

This video lesson provides a detailed explanation of how consonant sounds are produced with either a partial or total obstruction of the airstream from the lungs. This video also describes the...

This video lesson provides an in-depth explanation of the Diphthongs in the English sound system. Diphthongs simply mean two sounds, which means it involves a glide from one vowel quality...

This video gives a detailed explanation of the 5 long vowel sounds. These vowels are described as long vowels because their pronunciation is prolonged. You will learn how to describe and...

In this video lesson, you will learn the 7 short vowel sounds. These vowels are described as short vowels because their pronunciation is not prolonged. You will learn how to...

This video lesson provides a detailed explanation of vowel sounds. The vowels in English are classified into two main groups namely the pure vowels also called monophthongs and diphthongs. The...

This video lesson provides background knowledge of the sound system of the English language. The sound system of the English language is made up of speech sounds and the features...

A summary is a compressed representation of the facts continued in a passage or text. Therefore summary writing is the process of writing a shorter version of a passage. This...

This video lesson explains a formal letter as a type of letter written to someone we are unfamiliar with. It is mostly written for business purposes and it uses official...

This video lesson explains the informal letter as a type of letter written to friends and family. This type of letter uses casual or colloquial language to show familiarity. Informal...