Business Pronunciation miscellaneous
Bus pron Misc
Silent syllables
Several, Operative, Necessary, Categories
Silent letters
Wednesday
Minimal Pairs and Individual Sounds
Vowels
Ai
Hybrid, Financial, Micro, Microsoft, slides, blind testing, product life cycle, direct marketing, director, liabilities, licence,
I:
Complete, Chief executive, Sequence, media, glass ceiling, cease trading, medium sized, numbers people, key player, feasibility study, treaty, receivership, media,
I
Pyramid selling, market, image, purchase, apprentice, service, production targets, incentive, private, women, business school, compensation package, active, bargain, systems, salvage, leverage, head office,
Taxis/ taxes, slid/ slide,
U
Cover, income, suit/ suite, market movements, business tycoons, money, move down market, numbers, double,
Ei
Vague, Data, Database, Own Label, patents, Status, labour, unveil results, maintenance, straight,
Die/ day, sale/ sell, rise/ raise, claim/ clam, pen/ pain,
E
Measure, overheads, headhunting, head office,
O and o
Goal, Both, Profile, bonus, profit motive, logo, bonus, float, low tech, growth, cash flow, bureaucracy, load, disclosure, close, mogul, gross, process, cash flow, , lower
Model/ modal, noughts/ notes, saw/ so,
Lock/ look, box/ books,
Air
Questionnaire, bear market, share, parent company,
Bear market/ small beer
Ear
Gearing principle
Er
Circle, earnings ratio, standards, short- term, third party, firsts, working capital,
Working/ walking
Or
Hoarding, authority, orders, automation, product launch, autonomy, laws, core business, the board, auditors, fraud, annual auditor, raw materials, withdrawing, storage, profit forecast, source
Au
Accounts, brown goods, discount, bargaining power, cash mountain, discount, to gain ground, in-house, oust,
Schwa
(Adjectives???? Collocation???- names of jobs????)
Monopoly, machine, innovation, invisible export, go into liquidation, manufacturing sector, intangible assets, call in the receivers, excess capacity, promotion, demotion, liabilities, edge ahead, re-engineering, company, giant, capacity, leverage, accounts payable, inventor, balance sheet, balance of payments, intangible assets, equities, factor, factory, agency, benefits, competitor, agenda, ballot, client, strategy, asses, catalogue, patent, factors of production, maintenance, chairman, method, labour market, career, workaholic, optimal, flexible working practise, conglomerate, ballot, prototype, subordinate, packaging, primary, maximum, candidate, innovate, capacity, feasibility study, referee, applicant, period, Marlboro, allocation, ahead, profitability, guarantee, domestic, senior manager, production facilities, customer, foreign currency, announce results, equity, control, liabilities, chairman, chair person,
U and ju
Abuse, consumer goods, book value, business community, futures, cash infusion, manual labour, bureaucracy, human, dispute, consumer, consumption, union,
A and u
Ran/ run, rang/ rung, drank/ drunk, began, begun,
Consonants
Ch
Venture, mature, maturity, features, structure, opportunities, batch, corporate culture, expenditure,
Sh
Share issues, brochure, commercial, market niche, mission statement, insurance, function, pension, parachute, tertiary, social, promotion, production, machine, machinery, special, speciality, official, probationary period, fashion, inertia selling, share options,
Ship/ blue chip, white wash/ watch, shop/ chop,
S and Z
Faces/ phases, Price/ prize, Rise/ rice, closing inventory/ close to the edge, loose/ lose, precedent/ president, scientist, private enterprise, pence/ pens,
Th
Sum/ thumb,
H
E/ he, is/ his, I/ high,
D and T
Write/ ride, cart/ card,
L and R
Long/ wrong, glass ceiling/ grass,
J
Provisions, evasion, resume, measure, casual work, division, decision, treasury, exposure, disclosure,
D and j
logistics, agenda, graduate, procedure, budget, schedule, manage, merge, strategy, message, wastage, non-durable goods, fringe benefits, durability, duties, subsidiary, tangible assets, module,
Y and J
Jail/ Yale, yet/ jet, your/ jaw,
B and V
Ban/ van, boat/ vote,
K and G
Back/ bag
Spelling and pronunciation
Ea
Colleague, deadlock, dead time, heavy trading,
Plus E etc.
collocations with each one of minimal pairs???
Closed shop, vote, stage, consumer profile, place, space, compete, price rise, strike, broker, wage, downsize, locate- relocate, shake, prize, line manager, production line, economies of scale, consumer base, insider dealing, hiring and firing, medium-sized, a controlling stake, line manager, lame duck, hostile bid, complete, dive, bottom line, cash pile, a bitter pill, price hike, fake, candidate, vote
I smell a rat/ rate, cod/ code, light trading/ trad, stack/ market stake, prim and proper/ prime,
Plus S
Expenses, resources, premises, services, losses, purchases, sales,
Different pronunciations of Qu
Quorum, quote, unique, acquire, quit, quota, quotation, cash equivalents, equipment,
Different pronunciations of Ch
Technology
G or not
Longer, ringing, strongest, single, Hungary
Plus ed
adjectives and collocations???
Limited, Listed, Extended, fixed costs, fixed assets, value added tax, skilled labour, estimated costs, finished goods, reported costs,
Alternative prons and spelling
Either, neither, schedule, often, advertisements,
Homophones
Principal, source/ sauce,
Homographs
Lead, wind up
Places
Munich, Venice, Rome, Florence, Paris,
Number of syllables
Cooperate/ corporate, Been/ being, Studying, quite good/ quiet trading,
Unshifting stress
Employ, employment, Leader, leadership, Credit, creditor, Custom, customer
Shifting stress
Match stress pattern to each of two possibilities
Finance/ Financial, Integrate/ integration, Manage/ managerial Product/ productivity
Economy, economic, Elastic, elasticity, Appreciate, appreciation, Corporate, corporation
Compensate, compensation, Compete, competition, competitor, competitive
Volatile, volatility, Slowdown, slow down, break down, buy out, Record, Increase, progress, Segment, segmentation, Project, projection Industry, industrial, Produce, Motivate, Motivation, Ecology, ecological, Economy, economic, Advertise, advertisement, advertiser
Commerce, commercial, Apply, applicant, Automate, automation
Important stress differences
Employer/ employee, Moral, morale, Personal, personnel
Stress rules???
Absentee
Word Level Misc
Tuesday/ Thursday, Used to/ didn’t used to
Linking
Cause and effect, Go out of business, Free enterprise, Go to the wall, Go under, share issue, rights issue, pull out of, point of sale, mark up, mail order, low end, red ink, buy out, pay up front, place an order, return on capital,
Weak forms
Work to rule, R and D.
Disappearing sounds
Meltdown, front line manager, net profit, joint venture, net margin, short term
——————————————————-
This is a list of ideas you can tackle in class rather than a worksheet for students, PDF format not included, but easy to edit Word format below: