Authors: Linda Lane
ISBN-13: 9780130978776, ISBN-10: 0130978779
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Pearson ESL
Date Published: July 2004
Edition: 2nd Edition
Focus on Pronunciation 2 gives intermediate students the tools, tips, and techniques to help them speak English clearly and accurately. The variety of activities and accessible style makes learning fun. A five-part structure allows focused practice in individual sound areas: Vowels; Consonants; Syllables and Stress in Words; Rhythms; and Intonation.
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Introduction
PART 1 VOWELS
Unit 1 Vowel overview
Unit 2 [ iy ] sheep and [ I ] ship
Related Units: 1, 3, 22, 26
Unit 3 [ ey ] late, [ ¿ ] let, and [ I ] lit
Related Units: 1, 2, 4, 7, 22, 26
Unit 4 [ æ ] black and [ ¿ ] red
Related Units: 1, 3, 7, 33
Unit 5 [Y] cup
Related Units: 1, 6, 7, 22, 26-31, 33, 34, 35
Unit 6 [ Q ] cop and [Y] cup
Related Units: 1, 5, 7, 8, 22, 26-31, 33, 34, 35
Unit 7 Review: [ [ ] net, [ æ] Nat, [ Y] nut, and [ Q ] not
Related Units: 1, 3-6, 9, 26, 30, 31, 36, 37
Unit 8 [ r ] after vowels
Related Units: 1, 11, 20, 33, 34
Unit 9 [ ow ] boat, [ Q ] pot, and [ T ] bought
Related Units: 1, 6, 7, 22, 26
Unit 10 [ uw ] food and [ ¿ ] book
Related Units: 1, 9, 15, 22, 26
PART 2 CONSONANTS
Unit 11 Consonant overview
Unit 12 Beginning and final consonants
Related Units: 11, 13, 19, 24, 25, 26
Unit 13 Past tense endings
Related Units: 11, 12, 19, 25, 26, 30, 31
Unit 14 “TH” sounds: [ ¸ ] thanks and [ ð ] that
Related Units: 11, 12, 19, 24, 25
Unit 15 [ p ] pie, [ b ] buy, [ f ] fine, [ v ] vine, and [ w ] wine
Related Units: 11, 12, 24, 25
Unit 16 [ s ] seven and [ z ] zero
Related Units: 11, 12, 17, 19, 24, 25, 26, 29, 30, 36
Unit 17 [ ¿ ] shoe and [ ¿ ] television
Related Units: 11, 12, 17, 22, 24, 25, 30, 36
Unit 18 [ § ] chicken and [ ¤ ] jacket
Related Units: 11, 12, 17, 22, 24, 25, 30, 36
Unit 19 “S” endings: plurals, present tense, and possessives
Related Units: 11-17, 25, 26
Unit 20 [ r ] right and [ l ] light
Related Units: 8, 11, 12, 24, 25, 31
Unit 21 [ m ] mouse, [ n ] nose, and [ K ] sing
Related Units: 11, 12, 24, 25, 31
Unit 22 [ y ] yet and [ ¤ ] jet;
Consonant clusters with [y] regular
Related Units: 1, 11, 12, 18, 24, 25, 31
Unit 23 [ h ] hat; Reduction of “H” words
Related Units: 11, 12, 30, 31, 34
Unit 24 Beginning consonant clusters
Related Units: 11, 12, 14-17, 20, 21, 25, 26, 31
Unit 25 Final consonant clusters; Joining final consonants to the next word
Related Units: 11-21, 24, 31, 32, 36, 37
PART 3 STRESS IN WORDS
Unit 26 Stress in words: overview
Unit 27 Stressed syllables; Vowel length; Vowel reduction
Related Units: 1, 5, 11, 13, 19, 26, 28-35
Unit 28 Parts of speech; Suffixes; Numbers
Related Units: 26, 27, 29
Unit 29 Compounds; Noun-verb pairs
Related Units: 16, 26, 27, 28
PART 4 RHYTHM AND INTONATION
Unit 30 Rhythm and intonation: overview
Unit 31 Content and function words;
Thought groups
Related Units: 26-30, 32, 33, 34, 35
Unit 32 Highlighting important words
Related Units: 30, 31, 36, 37
Unit 33 Reduced words: bacon ‘n eggs
Related Units: 4, 5, 26-31, 34
Unit 34 Contractions and reductions of verbs
Related Units: 5, 19, 23, 26, 27, 30-32, 36, 37
Unit 35 Rhythm patterns of prepositions and particles
Related Units: 5, 12, 25, 27, 30-34
Unit 36 Rising intonation; Falling intonation
Related Units: 7, 16, 18, 24-26, 29, 30, 32, 34, 37
Unit 37 Intonation: expressing feelings and attitudes
Related Units: 7, 16, 25, 30, 32, 34, 36
Unit exercise answers
Appendix I: for team 1 players
Appendix II: for team 2 players