Practise Your Pronunciation

Practise Your Pronunciation


This is a self-study book you can use on your own or with a partner. Teachers can use it in a class to supplement pronunciation activities.


It is suitable for students of English at all levels who want to improve their pronunciation.


You can follow the text and listen to – and copy – the voices in the recordings.


After each sound, word or sentence, there is time on the recording to repeat what you hear. You can pause the recording to practise the dialogues and longer texts.


We recommend turning off Full Justification and Auto-hyphenation to make the text easier to read. On iPad – go to Settings > iBooks and turn off Full Justification and Auto-hyphenation.


Sections


‣ Introduction

‣ The alphabet

‣ Spelling

‣ The phonemic symbols

‣ Intonation – asking questions

‣ First questions – in the cafe

‣ Sounding polite and friendly

‣ Sounds – / v / and / b /

‣ Dialogue practice

‣ Just for fun

‣ Sounds – / l / or / r /

‣ Making an announcement

‣ Just for fun

‣ Sounds – / t / / θ / and / ð /

‣ Dialogue

‣ Just for fun

‣ Sounds – / m / and / n /

‣ Phone conversation – the wrong number

‣ Just for fun

‣ Sounds – clusters

‣ Clusters – story

‣ Just for fun

‣ Weak sounds – the schwa / ə /

‣ Long and short vowels

‣ In a cafe

‣ Just for fun

‣ Word endings

‣ Story – past tenses

‣ Story – ‘s’ endings

‣ Syllables and word stress

‣ Stress in nouns and verbs

‣ Stress in word ‘families’

‣ Sentence stress

‣ Linking

‣ Making links

‣ Dialogue practice

‣ Just for fun

‣ Congratulations


We have used British accents and British English spelling.


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