Quick Practice Downloads
GET RESULTS FASTER!
Want to avoid the most common mistakes ESL speakers make? Want to practice the most difficult sounds quickly and easily? These downloads are designed to help you get results faster. For only $1.99 each, these quick and effective practice units focus on the most difficult and common mistakes that ESL speakers make. All quick practice downloads contain two items:
- a PDF file of target words
- and the accompanying WMA sound files
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HOW DO I RECEIVE MY DOWNLOADS?
Once your order is confirmed, you will receive an email entitled “Your order from Tarle Speech and Language”. Scroll down to “order details”. There you will find a link to your purchases. Click the link, then enter the “code” and your email. This will with take you to a page to download your files. You MUST save these files to your computer.
QUICK PRACTICE CATEGORIES
Common Words
Learn how to pronounce categories of words that are commonly used.
- Quick practice: Dates
Learn how to pronounce dates
- Quick practice: Prepositions
Learn how to pronounce prepositions
Confusing Sound Pairs
Learn how to say commonly confused sounds.
- Quick practice: SH and CH
Learn to hear and pronounce the commonly confused sounds: SH and CH. It makes the words shoe and chew sound different
- Quick practice: P and F
Learn to hear and pronounce the commonly confused sounds: P and F. It makes the words pat and fat sound different
- Quick practice: L, R, and W
Learn to hear and pronounce the commonly confused sounds: L, R, and W. It makes the words white, light, and right sound different
- Quick practice: IH and I
Learn to hear and pronounce the commonly confused sounds: IH and I. It makes the words lit and light sound different
- Quick practice: AH and EH
Learn to hear and pronounce the commonly confused sounds: AH and EH. It makes the words and and end sound different
- Quick practice: AH and A
Learn to hear and pronounce the commonly confused sounds: AH and A. It makes the words bat and bait sound different
- Quick practice: S and Z
Learn to hear and pronounce the commonly confused sounds: S and
- Quick practice: IH and EH
Learn to hear and pronounce the commonly confused sounds: IH and
- Quick practice: V and W
Learn to hear and pronounce the commonly confused sounds: V and
- Quick practice: TH and S
Learn to hear and pronounce the commonly confused sounds: TH and
- Quick practice: TH and T
Learn to hear and pronounce the commonly confused sounds: TH and
- Quick practice: IH and E
Learn to hear and pronounce the commonly confused sounds: IH and
Difficult Sounds
Learn how to say words containing troubling sounds or sound combinations.
- Quick practice: How to pronounce X
Learn how to say words containing the letter
- Quick practice: How to say the OOH vowel
Learn how to say words containing the short OOH sound. For example: wood, could, book
- Quick practice : Ending S blends
Learn how to say words containing ending S blends: SK, SL, SP, ST, NS, RST in words like ask, whistle, lisp, last, since, first
- Quick practice: Ending N blends
Learn how to say words containing final N blends: NT,ND, NS, NER, NJ, NTH, NL in words like want, and, once, donor, change, month, channel
- Quick practice: Beginning S blends
Learn how to say words containing initial S blends: SK, SL, SM, SN, SP, ST, SW in words like sky, slim, smell, snore, spot, stop, swim
- Quick practice: Beginning R blends
Learn how to say words containing beginning R blends: BR, PR, DR, TR, GR, KR, FR, THR, SHR, SKR, STR, SPR in words like bridge, pray, drive, try, green, cry, fruit, throw, shrimp, scratch, street, spring
- Quick practice: Beginning L blends
Learn how to say words containing L blends: PL, SL, BL, KL, GL, FL, SPL in words like play, slight, blue, glad, flag, splash
- Quick practice: Ending S blends following a VOICELESS sound
Learn how to say words after adding an -S to a noun or verb
–ED and –S endings
Learn how to say words with –ED and –S endings.
- Quick practice: Ending S blends following a VOICED sound
Learn how to say words after adding an -S to a noun or verb
- Quick practice: Ending S blends following a SIBILANT sound
Learn how to say words after adding an -S to a noun or verb
- Quick practice: Ending ED blends following a T or D sound
Learn how to say words after adding an -ED to a verb
- Quick practice: Ending ED blends following a VOICED sound
Learn how to say words after adding an -ED to a verb
- Quick practice: Ending ED blends following a VOICELESS sound
Learn how to say words after adding an -ED to a verb
Minimal Pairs
Learn to hear the slight differences between sounds and how they change the meaning of the word.
- Quick practice: Vowel sound minimal pairs
Learn to hear the slight differences between vowel sounds and how they change the meaning of the word. For example, eat, it, and at
- Quick practice: Initial consonant sound minimal pairs
Learn to hear the slight differences between vowel sounds and how they change the meaning of the word. For example: bat, hat, sat
- Quick practice: Final consonant sound minimal pairs
Learn to hear the slight differences between vowel sounds and how they change the meaning of the word. For example: man, mat, mash






