“As I pronounced it to you…”

“As I pronounced it to you.” “Suit the action to the word.” In Shakespeare’s Hamlet we find excellent advice on how to communicate effectively in the speech Hamlet makes to a troupe of actors. “Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you trippingly on the tongue.”  “Suit the action to the […]

STP: SELECT, TRANSFORM, PRONOUNCE

STP: The title of this vocabulary exercise is taken from an old race-car motor oil advertisement. Just as STP makes your car run better, our STP (Select, Transform and Pronounce) makes your vocabulary three times better. This is how it works. MODEL: READ. WRITE. Select unfamiliar words from a reading excerpt. These words are from […]