Sounds Great 1: Low Intermediate Pronunciation for Speakers of English, Vol. 1 » (1st Edition)

SOUNDS GREAT teaches learners to discover, recognize, and use American English word stress, sentence stress, intonation patterns, and high-frequency vowels and consonants. The many guided conversations, pair and small group practices, information gap activities, peer interviews, and short oral reports invite students to enjoy improving their command of spoken English.

1. Vowels for Unstress 2. Word Stress and Unstress 3. Word Stress and Spelling Patterns 4. Predictable Word Stress with Suffixes 5. Predictable Word Stress: Compound Nouns and Phrasal Verbs 6. Sentence Stress 7. Sentence Stress, Linking, and Blending 8. Rising/Falling Intonation 9. Rising Intonation 10. Combination Intonation Patterns 11. The Consonants 12. The Consonants "l" and "r" 13. Consonants at the Beginning and End of Words 14. The Vowels