Learn with Adrian Underhill: Pronunciation, Performance and Poetry
Who is this course for?
Pronunciation, Performance and Poetry is for teachers, trainers looking for a new approach to pronunciation and performance that can be integrated into all language work and that brings joy to learning.
What will you achieve?
Take this course to:
-Gain a thorough, practical insight into the physicality of pronunciation including words, stress,
unstress, and connected speech
-Develop your personal expression and speaking from the heart in free speech and poetry.
-Develop confidence and presence in your spoken performance, for example whenever you talk to
your class.
-Experience first hand and practise new teaching techniques to help your learners bring their
speech to life.
-Integrate pronunciation work completely into all class work and at all levels.
-Learn to bring life and pleasure to all classroom language work by enabling learners to speak from
the heart, and express themselves with confidence, clarity, and engagement.
What will Pronunciation with Adrian Underhill cover?
Develop your Pronunciation
Develop confidence in your own pronunciation of sounds, words and connected speech. Learn to sense what you do in your mouth so you can critique and change your pronunciation as little or as much as you wish, and learn techniques to help your learners do the same.
Master your Spoken Performance
Develop your spoken performance skill through presentation and performance, maximising listener engagement through your voice tone, pause, energy distribution, timing, intonation, fluency, body language and speaking from the heart. Integrate pronunciation to to bring language to life.
Experience New Teaching Techniques
During the programme you will enjoy a complete workout with the Sound Foundations chart, receive constant feedback to gain confidence and mastery, and experience a range of new teaching techniques, all of which are transferable to your teaching style and your classes.
The course culminates with the production of our own Poetry Festival.
Here is a Sample Timetable. Please note, this only gives an indication of what you will learn on the course.
| 1 week | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| 9:00-13:00 | Introducing the Sound Foundations chart as map of the pronunciation territory
The physicality of sounds, connecting with the muscles that make the difference Your own pronunciation and being yourself |
Connecting sounds into words. Stress, unstress, energy distribution
Connecting words (and disappearing syllables) in the stream of speech Selecting your performance piece, initial rehearsal considerations |
Your personal presence, pronunciation, and performance
Vocabulary, rhythm and intonation in connected speech Master classes including feedback for performance rehearsals |
Your self-presentation and impact through voice tone, pause, fluency, body language
Presentations and storytelling for engagement and delight Master classes including feedback for performance rehearsals |
Poetry Festival
Feedback and discussion Integrating learning into your own teaching style. |
About the Trainer
Adrian Underhill
Adrian is a well-known ELT Consultant and Trainer. He is a past president of IATEFL, author, and series editor of the Macmillan Books for Teachers. He is well known for his book Sound Foundations and his inspiring talks on how to use the phonemic chart. His current projects include teaching beyond methods, and bringing playfulness, spontaneity, improvisation and storytelling into classroom learning
Trainee Accommodation
Homestays & Residences
We want your time in London to be super comfortable! Live with a welcoming host family to immerse yourself in British culture or stay at a modern student residence within Zone 1/2 of London.
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Get in touch
Book a Calendly consultation to speak with a course advisor on the phone or over a video call. Alternatively, you can complete our online Enquiry Form and our team will contact you via email or a phone call.
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