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CONTENTS
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IX
UNIT ONE An Overview of English Pronunciation
Words 2 . Phrases and Sentences 5 . Vowels 9
Consonants 15 . Rhythm l8 . The sound of English 20
UNIT TWO Basic Stress, Btrythm, and Intonation
f.esson 1 June, July and August. stress of words of one and two syllables 22
Lesson 2 C-arpenter, accountant, engineer, astonaut: Stress of three-
syllable words 23
Lcsson 3 Airplane: Stress of compound nouns 25
Lcsson 4 Maria's Spanish. She tr'ues in Madrid. Phrase or sentence stress 27
Lesson 5 Where's your sister? She's at work. Falling intonation 2A
Lesson 6 Is that your ar? Is it a Voltso? Rising intonation with yes-no
questions 5l
Lesson 7 What's his name? Is it John? Summary of falling and rising
intonation 32
Lesson a I bought a box of andy. Stress in sentences g
Lesson 9 What is Aour name? Rhythm 56
l,esson 10 A hard lessoru Rhythm-noun phrases 58
l,esson 11 Moneg talks. Using noun phrases as subjects 40
f,esson 12 Read a good book Noun phrases as objects of verbs
and prepositions 42
UNIT THREE Vowels
Lesson 13 Pit, pet, pat, etc.: All the vowels 43
Lesson 14 See the sea. Length of vowels 47
Lesson L5 Odd jobs: The vowel [a] 4A
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Lesson Bright f{ghts; The vowel [ay] 49
Lesson 17 Sit still. The vowel [i] 5l
18
Lesson Qreen beans: The vowel [iy] 52
Lesson 19 Sir u;eeks.'Contrasting [i] with [iy] 55
Lesson 20 Red peppr: the vowel [e] JJ
21
Lesson Late train: The vowel: [ey] 56
I,esson 22 A late letter: Contrasting [e] with [ey] 57
Lesson 25 A lead lid: Contrasting [e] with [i] 59
Lesson 24 IIe st on his hat. The vowel [e] 60
Iesson 25 Jan, John, Jane, and Jenny: Contrasting [e] with [a], [e], and [ey] 6t
Lesson 26 She ame in at ten. Summary of front vowels 65
Lcsson 27 Strong coffee: The vowel [c] &
28
l,esson Slour Doa& The vowel [ow] 65
f.esson 29 Long rud: Contrasting [c] with [ow] 67
l,esson 5O A small dofl.' Contrasting [c] with [a] 68
l,esson 31 Not much luck The vowel [a] 70
l,esson 32 Not much water: Contrasting [e] with [a], [c], and [e] 7t
Lason 33 Od bok: The vowel [u] 74
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fescon 54 Blue moon: The vowel [uw] 75
l,csson 35 dd /ood; Contrasting [u] with [uw] 76
Lesson 56 bb just bought filoo old Dooks. Summary of back vowels 77
Lesson 57 The boy's toys: The vowel [oy] 78
l,esson 38 Down and out The vowel [aw] 79
Lesson 59 A nice loud wice: Contrasts invoMng [ay], [oy], [aw] 80
Lcsson 4O Is gour ar here or there? Vowels before [r] 81
Lcsson 41 A hnt Dird. The vowel ['r] 8u2
l,esson 42 C-ora is in the chorus. The unstressed vowel ["]
l,csson 43 Older, wiser and richer, The unstressed vowel ["r] 85
Lesson 44 Children gggle.The unstressed syllables ['l] and [nn] 88
Lesson 45 Very yellow. The unstressed vowels [i{l and [o"] 89
UNIT FOUK Grammar Words and Intonation
Lesson {6 One, htrc buckle your shoe. Counting intonation 92
Lcsson 47 &ples, barlanras, and oranges. Intonation of words in series 94
Lesson 48 C-offee, taor milk? Intonation of altemative questions 95
l,esson 49 IIe's crlming? When statements get question intonation 96
l,esson 5O Where? When? Question-word questions with rising and falling
intonation 97
Lcsson 51 Ilelen was eighteen. Stress of numbers 99
Lesson 52 Eight dollars and sixty-fhrc cents: Stress of numbers as modifiers 100
l.csson 53 June third, 7985: Giving dates and addresses 101
Lesson 54 Cups and saucers.' honunciation of plural nouns 104
Lesson 55 An arm and a leg. honunciation of a and an 106
Lescon 56 The old and the neur.' Pronunciation of the l08
Lcsson 5? She laugla and qies. Pronunciation of third person singular
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Lcsson 58 YouTe right I'm unong. Contractions of am, is, are
Lesson 59 She isn't here. The contraction n't 115
UNIT FIVE Consonants
Lesson 6O Pa, Tea, Key, and so on.'All the consonants rr6
Iesson 61 Lopik and listeru The consonant [] 118
Lesson 62 Reading ard writing: The consonant [r] r20
Lesson 63 Left and rfght' Consonants [] and [r] t22
l,esson 6lt fuine gowrg men; Consonants [m], [n], and [n] r23
Lesson 65 We hear you: The consonants [yl, [wJ, and [h] t25
Iesson 66 T@, do, sue, zoo: Contrasts of voiceless and voiced consonants r2a
Iesson 67 First, ftirst, sell, shelt. Contrasts among fricatives r50
Lcsson 68 Dag, theg, chew, shoe. Contrasts of stop and fricative Consonants 152
lesson 69 Sweet music. Initial consonants and consonant clusters 156
lesson 7O A simple symbol. Medial consonants and consonant clusters r58
Lcsson 71 Drink gour milk. Final consonants and consonant clusters 14l
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UNIT SIX Sentence Stress and Khythm
L.esson 72 funer or later: Reduced forms TU
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Lesson Add'n'subtact: Reduced forms and rhythm 145
Lcsson 74 Are ya ready? Subject pronouns 149
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Lesson What's'er nanne? Possessive modifiers 151
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Lesson llelp me help them. Object pronouns L54
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Lesson At the De,nk at n@n. hepositional phrases 155
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Lesson Qet up, Qet down. Linking of sounds 158
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Lcsson English is easy. Neutral sentence stress 159
Lesson 8O Bum it up. Sentence stress (Adjectives and two word verbs) 161
Lesson a1 IIe speales English fluently. Sentence stress (Adverbs) L&
a2 16
Lesson IIis leg wasn't broken. Contrastive stress I
83
Lesson Waner is an Englbh rurme. Contrastive stress II t67
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Lesson Do gou want this pen or that one? C.ontrastive stress III 169
UNIT SEVEN Final Practice and Keview t72
Teadrer Notes and Ansrcr lfty 1gl
