Clear Speech from the Start Student's Book with Audio CD: Basic Pronunciation and Listening Comprehension in North American English,9780521619059

Clear Speech from the Start Student's Book with Audio CD: Basic Pronunciation and Listening Comprehension in North American English

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ISBN13: 9780521619059
ISBN10: 052161905X
Format: Multimedia
Pub. Date: 2005-02-21
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary

Clear Speech from the Start gives beginning students immediate help in mastering the crucial elements of English pronunciation. Stressing basic pronunciation and listening comprehension in North American English, Clear Speech from the Start concentrates on features that will have the most significant impact on a student's ability to understand and communicate with others. These features include rhythm, stress, intonation, and speech sounds that carry specific grammatical meaning. The text presents these features through kinesthetic exercises and visual and auditory modeling, thus making them accessible even to beginners. Each Student's Book comes with a student Audio CD that contains roughly one third of the exercises included in the class audio program.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vi
Introduction vii
Letter to the Teacher viii
The alphabet and vowels
2(5)
Cake, please
The Two Vowel Rule
7(5)
How do you spell ``time''?
Syllables
12(7)
How many syllables are in ``city''?
The One Vowel Rule Linking with N
19(7)
What does ``less'' mean?
How do you say L-E-A-S-E?
Strong syllables Linking with M
26(9)
What's that called?
What's it for?
Weak syllables Linking vowels
35(7)
Can I help you? Yes, I'd like a pizza
The most important word
42(9)
Are you going to eat supper at nine?
No, at six
Stop sound T/D and continuing sound S/Z Linking with T/D and S/Z
51(9)
How do you spell ``cakes''?
Is she running? No, she's reading
Final sounds D and L Linking with L
60(7)
How do you spell ``whale''? What does ``paid'' mean?
Final sounds L and LD Linking with all the stop sounds
67(5)
Did you say ``coal''? No, I said ``cold.''
Final sounds T/D and R Linking with R
72(9)
What is it? Where is it?
Continuing sounds and stop sounds + S/Z Linking with S/Z
81(10)
What's a bank for?
Where's the library? It's on Main Street
Numbers Checking and correcting mistakes
91(9)
Did you say ``ninety''? No, ``nineteen.''
What does Shane sell?
Final sounds N, L, ND, and LD Linking with N, L, ND, and LD
100(6)
What's a trail? A path
Final sounds S, TH, and T Linking with TH
106(8)
What's a bath for? To get clean
Review
114(11)
Appendices
A Parts of the mouth
125(1)
B Tongue shape for L, T/D, R, S/Z, and TH
126(2)
C Vowels Ay, Iy, and Uw
128(1)
D Vowel rules
129(3)
E How often do the vowel rules work?
132

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