Oral English assessments and ESL speaking English activities

HOME

MY TEACHING TOOLS

FORUM

Home > Self-Study Quizzes > Quiz

Pronunciation and Listening- College Level Students (5/25 question - random)

Author: Dr. Ruth Yontz
Department of Finance
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
www.business.illinois.edu/facultyprofile/faculty_profile.aspx?ID=261

The purpose of this assignment is to assess your listening skills for some major areas of pronunciation--word stress, sentence stress, and end-of-sentence intonation. You will be asked to listen to a clip and then to write or select the best answer.

Your answers should reflect your current level of skills.

Listen to the question and select the answer that would be the correct response. (CAPITALS=most stress)

	No, we went to the Thai RESTAURANT.
	No, we went to the THAI restaurant.
	No, we WENT to the Thai restaurant.

Listen to the audio recording. Does the sentence sounds finished or unfinished?

	Finished
	Unfinished

Listen to the audio below, and mark the choice that shows the syllable that receives the most stress for the word 'procedure'. (CAPITALS=most stress)

	R E / s e a r c h
	r e / S E A R C H

Listen to the audio recording. Does the sentence sounds finished or unfinished?

	Finished
	Unfinished

Listen to the audio below, and mark the choice that shows the syllable that receives the most stress for the phrasal verb 'print out'. (CAPITALS=most stress)

	P R I N T / o u t
	p r i n t / O U T


STUDENT ACTIVITIES Speaking Activities Self-Study Quizzes	WEBTOOLS SpokenTest EnglishPresentations	CUSTOMER SERVICE Privacy Policy Support	COMPANY INFORMATION About Us Contact Us SpokenSkills News