Simple clickable audio clips of models used in class:

• without beat @ natural speed
• without beat @ slow speed
• with beat @ slow speed
• with beat @ natural speed
• plus space for student practice
  

1 What did you do yesterday?

2 Do you think you could just lend me a pen?

3 I've never seen such a terrible film.

4 He's going to Shinjuku tomorrow.

These clips aim simply to provide an aural record for phrases modelled and practised (with attention to rhythm) in class. Although none of these clips show it, I sometimes make a recording of the class speaking in unison and upload it.

Link to Quiz 1

Link to Quiz 2

Link to Quiz 3

Link to Quiz 4

Link to Quiz 5

These quizzes aim simply to raise awareness of patterns of sentence stress (ie rhythm) in English. They should be regarded as only one part of the overall assistance students need in reaching an understanding of English stress-time, and, indeed, of the system of English phonology as a whole. It is assumed that this software is situated in a blended learning environment where the teacher focuses in the lesson on weak forms, contractions, features of catenated speech, and so on. By accustoming the student to all of these phonological items, we are hoping to raise confidence in comprehension and lessen the amount of processing required for decoding meaning from an utterance at natural speed.