U.S. States & Capital Cities

U.S. States & Capital Cities

Jennifer ESL Video - Part #1  Part#2  Part#3
Audio File

Capital	State		Capital	State
Montgomery  Juneau  Phoenix Little Rock  Sacramento  Denver  Hartford  Dover Tallahassee Atlanta Honolulu  Boise Springfield  Indianapolis  Des Moines  Topeka  Frankfort  Baton Rouge  Augusta  Annapolis Boston  Lansing  St. Paul  Jackson  Jefferson City	Alabama Alaska Arizona, Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri		Helena Lincoln Carson City  Concord  Trenton  Santa Fe  Albany  Raleigh  Bismarck  Columbus  Oklahoma City  Salem  Harrisburg  Providence  Columbia  Pierre  Nashville  Austin  Salt Lake City  Montpelier  Richmond  Olympia  Charleston  Madison  Cheyenne	Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming

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U.S. Geography Games #1
US Geography Games #2

Countries & Cities

Countries & Cities

Audio Practice

Afghanistan - Kabul
Algeria - Algiers
Argentina - Buenos Aires
Austria - Vienna
Belgium - Brussels
Canada - Ottawa
China - Beijing
Colombia - Bogota
Cuba - Havana
Denmark - Copenhagen
Egypt - Cairo
France - Paris
Germany - Berlin
Hungary - Budapest
Iceland - Reykjavik
India - New Delhi
Indonesia - Jakarta
Iran - Tehran
Iraq - Baghdad
Ireland - Dublin
Israel - Jerusalem
Italy - Rome
Japan - Tokyo
Kenya - Nairobi
North Korea - Pyongyang
South Korea - Seoul
Laos - Vientiane
Netherlands - Amsterdam;
New Zealand - Wellington
Nicaragua - Managua
Norway - Oslo
Philippines - Manila
Poland - Warsaw
Portugal - Lisbon
Russia - Moscow
Spain - Madrid
Sweden - Stockholm
Switzerland - Bern
Syria - Damascus
Taiwan - Taipei
Thailand - Bangkok
Turkey - Ankara
United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
United Kingdom - London
United States of America - Washington D.C.
Venezuela - Caracas
Vietnam - Hanoi

World Google Map

World Geography Challenge

More World Geography Games

Stress Word Practice

Word Stress Practice

emergency inexplicable application applicable academy academic advertisement contractual punctuation demonstration terrorism collaboration cooperative aristocrat

alimony misrepresentation limitations subordinate involuntary cancellation opponent agenda homicide biblical definitive metropolitan excellence monogamous

anchovy administer administration ingredient diagnosis Protestant pedagogy vitamin concentrate rotary French Fries Cheese Pizza city CD

Ending Consonants

Rachel's Video: Vowel Length Affected by Ending Consonant

	A	B
1	bell	belt
2	car	cart
3	fell	felt
4	her	hurt
5	tore	torn
6	knees	needs
7	mill	milk
8	can	can't
9	ben	bent
10	Hun	hunt

I think we (can/can't) do it today.

	A	B
1	need	neat
2	rag	rack
3	hid	hit
4	mud	mutt
5	save	safe
6	ride	write
7	bud	but
8	bag	back

More Vowels - Minimal Pairs

Rachel's Videos: 'eh' as in 'bed'   'aa' as in 'bat'   'aw' as in 'law'    'oy' as in 'toy'.'uh' as in 'butter'  'ah' as in 'father'
Sounds of American English

	A	B
1	and	end
2	bland	blend
3	ham	hem
4	tamper	temper
5	land	lend
6	gassed	guest
7	pan	pen
8	spanned	spend
9	band	bend
10	tamp	temp

	A	B
1	bat	bet
2	had	head
3	paddle	pedal
4	shall	shell
5	gnat	net
6	mat	met
7	pack	peck
8	mash	mesh
9	rack	wreck
10	past	pest

	A	B
1	color	collar
2	nut	not
3	stuck	stock
4	luck	lock
5	come	calm
6	fund	fond
7	bum	bomb
8	wonder	wander

	A	B
1	beg	bug
2	ben	bun
3	dell	dull
4	messed	must
5	guess	Gus
6	jest	just
7	net	nut
8	better	butter

	A	B
1	all	oil
2	jaw	joy
3	paw	poi
4	brawl	broil
5	toe	toy
6	cone	coin
7	old	oiled
8	toll	toil

More Minimal Pairs
 http://streaming.ohio.edu/cas/lingCALL/vowel.htm
http://www.fuhriman.us/la.esl/minimal-pairs.html (no audio)

Sentence Practice

• It's really too late to wait. 
• What's the low down on the raw fish law?
• After a week, I think these leeks reek. 
• The crew didn't' have a clue. 
• If we flee, we'll be free. 
• Did Blake break the plate?
• The hail got in my hair. 
• The meal was a mere five dollars. 
• There were very many berries in the valley. 
• The big cap is a simple symbol.
• I only have half of the fee.
• Please sit in the soft seat. 
• There was a lot of pressure to measure the major explosion.
• Put the sheet on the seat before you sit on it. 
• Most of you must bowl with the red ball. 
• She won't want to walk there.
• The frog would leap from one leaf to another .
• There's a ban on putting fans in a van. 
• I wish she wasn't a witch. 
• Who's got your goat?
• Would she sue the zoo?
• We hissed as we watched the conclusion.
• We ditched the party and washed our car.

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Minimal Pairs

Minimal Pairs

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Rachel's Videos:  The L Sound  The R Sound  The W Sound  Listen & Repeat Exercises
U of Iowa's Sounds of American English

	A	B	C
1	lice	rice
2	late	rate	wait
3	low	row	woe
4	law	raw
5	lay	ray	way
6	late	rate	wait
7	lane	rain	wain
8	led	red	wed
9	lie	rye	why
10	leek	reek	week

	A	B
1	clue	crew
2	blue	brew
3	glass	grass
4	flee	free
5	blow	bro
6	clock	crock
7	blouse	browse
8	bled	bread
9	Blake	break
10	claw	craw

	A	B
1	belly	berry
2	mole	more
3	hail	hair
4	heel	hear
5	fool	four
6	file	fire
7	deal	dear
8	meal	mere
9	rebuttal	rebutter
10	cuddle	cutter

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Rachel's Videos:  The b and p sounds  *  The f and v sounds
U of Iowa's Sounds of American English

	A	B
1	big	pig
2	bet	pet
3	bad	pad
4	mob	mop
5	cab	cap
6	rib	rip
7	symbol	simple
8	rabid	rapid
9	stable	staple
10	nabbed	napped

	A	B
1	fine	vine
2	fiddle	vittle
3	flog	vlog
4	leaf	leave
5	safe	save
6	huffer	hover
7	proof	prove
8	half	have

	A	B
1	bat	fat
2	boat	vote
3	pile	file
4	cab	calf
5	pry	fry
6	sappy	savvy
7	cub	cuff
8	cape	cave

	A	B	C	D
1	bee	pee	fee	vee
2	berry	perry	ferry	very
3	buy	pie	fie	vie
4	bile	pile	file	vile
5	bail	pale	fail	veil
6	bay	pay	fay	vay
	bane	pain	feign	vane
8	best	pest	fest	vest

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Rachels Videos:  's' as in 'sip' ,  'z' as in 'zip' , 'sh' as in 'ship'  ,  'j' as in 'jar'  ,  'ch' as in 'char'  ,  'dj' as in 'measure'
Sounds of American English

	A	B	C	D	E
1	Sue	zoo	shoe	chew	Jew
2	cass	Kaz	cash	catch
3	sear	zir	sheer	cheer	Jeer
4	sane	zane	Shane	Chain	Jane
5	lease	Lee's	leash	leech
6	sip	zip	ship	chip	gyp
7	seep		sheep	cheap	jeep
8	leased		leashed	leeched

	A	B
1	major	measure
2	pressure	pleasure
3	Confucian	confusion
4	ledger	leisure
5		conclusion
6		division
7		exposure
8		explosion
9		supervision
10		treasure

There was a huge explosion by the shore.
This sure is a confusing conclusion.

	A	B
1	ditched	dished
2	matched	mashed
3	hatched	hashed
4	hitched	hissed
5	watched	washed

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Rachel Videos:  The ih as in site Sound  * The ee as in She Sound * oh as in No sound * aw as in Law Sound  *  EE vs ih: Tense vs. Lax

	A	B
1	seat	sit
2	peak	pick
3	eel	ill
4	leave	live
5	meal	mill
6	peel	pill
7	reach	rich
8	teen	tin
9	seek	sick
10	deep	dip
11	liter	litter
12	beaker	bicker

	A	B
1	boat	bought
2	low	law
3	hole	hall
4	close	clause
5	bowl	ball
6	most	must
7	won't	want
8	goat	got
9	shown	Shawn
10	oaf	off
11	coast	cost
12	woke	walk

End of the Word Consonant Clusters

	A	B
1	bell	belt
2	car	cart
3	fell	felt
4	her	hurt
5	tore	torn
6	knees	needs
7	mill	milk
8	can	can't
9	ben	bent
10	Hun	hunt

I think we (can/can't) do it today.

Audio Practice File

	A	B
1	cold	cord
2	hold	hoard
3	called	card
4	malt	mart
5	world	word
6	ilk	irk
7	mild	mired
8	film	firm
9	wild	wired
10	balk	bark

Audio Practice File

L-R-W Consonants

	A	B	C
1	lice	rice
2	late	rate	wait
3	low	row	woe
4	law	raw
5	lay	ray	way
6	late	rate	wait
7	lane	rain	wain
8	led	red	wed
9	lie	rye	why
10	leek	reek	week

Audio Practice
File

	A	B
1	clue	crew
2	blue	brew
3	glass	grass
4	flee	free
5	blow	bro
6	clock	crock
7	blouse	browse
8	bled	bread
9	Blake	break
10	claw	craw

Audio
Practice File

	A	B
1	belly	berry
2	mole	more
3	hail	hair
4	heel	hear
5	fool	four
6	file	fire
7	deal	dear
8	meal	mere

Audio
Practice File

	A	B
1	cold	cord
2	hold	hoard
3	called	card
4	malt	mart
5	world	word
6	ilk	irk
7	mild	mired
8	film	firm
9	wild	wired
10	balk	bark

Audio
Practice File
Challenge Words

• World
• Swirl
• Rural
• Fairly