Get Rid of Your Accent for Business, Part 3 The English Pronunciation and Speech Training Manual

95 Pages·2014·1.24 MB·English

by  Olga Smith

GET RID OF YOUR ACCENT FOR BUSINESS, PART THREE
THE ENGLISH SPEECH
TRAINING MANUAL

By Linda James and Olga Smith
“This is a fantastic book for all those people who would like to progress in
business. First impressions count and once I learned to speak with a convincing
British accent, clients have automatically taken me more serious. I highly
recommend this book in conjunction with the other 'Get Rid of your Accent'
books. Many more doors have been opened since reading this book, so don't
miss out, purchase a copy today!”
Natalia Sasoon, MBA

“This excellent book is a must-have addition to the "Get Rid of Your Accent" -
course. I bought the first book in this series six years ago when I was working
for a bank in London City. My heavy Russian accent was causing substantial
problems in communication between me and my work colleagues and I wanted
to do something about it.

It would not be an exaggeration to say that this pronounciation course had
changed both my personal and professional life. My spoken English has
improved dramatically. My colleagues and friends no longer needed to ask me to
repeat what I said. Phone conversations with our IT specialists in Chennai
stopped being a linguistic torture. What is most important, ability to pronounce
English correctly gave me a totally different level of self-confidence.

However, I always felt that this course would benefit from using a more
business-oriented vocabularly. This new book provides a perfect answer to my
wishes. All exercises use modern business vocabularly that one encounters every
day in the news and at work.“
Yury Kravchenko, Ph.D.

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Part One
A classic elocution course
Master correct pronunciation of English sounds; create clear speech.
Words from literature and for everyday use.
Funny sentences, verses, tongue twisters and poetry.

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Part Two
Fluency and public speaking
Master connected speech patterns, intonation and natural flow of speech,
Voice modulation
Usage of colloquial expressions and idioms
Part Three
Business elocution course
Master your business lingo by practicing words, phrases and sentences in the
style of The Financial Times, BBC News and The Economist.
Table of Contents

Introduction
Method of learning
The Speech Organs
International Phonetic Alphabet
Muscular exercises
Articulation warm-up exercises
Lesson 1: The [ ɑ ː] sound as in “bark”
Lesson 2: The [uː] sound as in “boot”
Lesson 3: The [ɔː] sound as in “fort”
Lesson 4: The [iː] sound as in “feet”
Lesson 5: The [ɜː] sound as in “third”
Revision: Long Vowels
Lesson 6: The [ə] neutral vowel (schwa) as in “the”
Lesson 7: The [ɪ] sound as in “pit”
Lesson 8: Comparison [ə] - [ɪ] and [ɪ] - [iː]
Lesson 9: The [ʌ] sound as in “hut”
Lesson 10: The [ɒ] sound as in “box”
Lesson 11: Comparison [ɒ] - [ɔː] and [ɒ] - [ʌ]
Lesson 12: The [e] sound as in “pet”
Lesson 13: The [ʊ] sound as in “book”
Lesson 14: Comparison [ʊ] and [uː]
Lesson 15: The [æ] sound as in “mad”
Revision: Short Vowels
Lesson 16: Diphthong [əʊ] as in “boat”
Lesson 17: Diphthong [eɪ] as in “pay”
Lesson 18: Diphthong [ɔɪ] as in “boy”
Lesson 19: Diphthong [ɪə] as in “hear”
Lesson 20: Diphthong [aɪ] as in “pie”
Lesson 21: Diphthong [ʊə] as in “sewer, triphthong [jʊə] as in “fewer”
Lesson 22: Diphthong [eə] as in “pair”
Lesson 23: Diphthong [aʊ] as in “how”
Lesson 24: Semi-vowel [j] as in “yes”
Lesson 25: Semi-vowel [w] as in “was”
Lesson 26: Plosive consonants unvoiced [p] as in “put”, voiced [b] as in “but”
Lesson 27: Plosive consonants unvoiced [t] as in “two”, voiced [d] as in “do”
Lesson 28: Plosive consonants unvoiced [k] as in “cake”, voiced [g] as in “go”
Lesson 29: Nasal consonant [m] as in “money”