Set Phrases CD 1 Track 40 A Cultural Indoctrination to American Norms...
The following well-known story has been rewritten to contain only descriptions. Stress the second word of each phrase. Repeat after me. Exercise 1-27: Descriptive Phrase StoryThe Ugly Duckling CD1 Track 39 There is a mother duck. She lays three eggs...
Exercise 1 -26: Two Types of Descriptive Phrases CD 1 Track 38 Repeat. Adjective Noun Adverb Adjective 1. It's a short nail. It's really short. 2. It's a chocolate cake. It's dark chocolate. 3. It's a hot bath. It's too hot. 4. It's a hard drive. It...
Exercise 1-25: Sentence Stress with Descriptive Phrases CD 1 Track 37 Repeat the following phrases. Adjective Noun and Adjective 1. It's short. It's a short nail. 2. It's chocolate. It's a chocolate cake. 3. It's good. It's a good plan. 4. It's guar...
Two-Word Phrases Descriptive Phrases CD Track 36 Nouns are heavier than adjectives; they carry the weight of the new information. An adjective and a noun combination is called a descriptive phrase, and in the absence of contrast or other secondary c...
Exercise 1-24: Single-Word Phrases CD 1 Track 35 Repeat the following noun and adjective sentences. Noun Adjective 1. It's a nail. It's short. 2. It's a cake. It's chocolate. 3. It's a tub. It's hot. 4. It's a drive. It's hard. 5. It's a door. It's...
Complex Intonation Word Count Intonation Patterns CD 1 Track 34 This is the beginning of an extremely important part of spoken American Englishthe rhythms and intonation patterns of the long streams of nouns and adjectives that are so commonly used....
Exercise 1-23; Syllable Count Test CD 1 Track 33 Put the following words into the proper category based on the syllable count intonation. Write the pattern number in the space provided. Check Answer Key, beginning on p. 193. Single Words l. stop __...
Exercise 1-22: Syllable Patterns CD 1 Track 32 In order to practice accurate pitch change, repeat the following column. Each syllable will count as one musical note. Remember that words that end in a vowel or a voiced consonant will be longer than o...
Syllable Stress CD 1 Track 31 Syllable Count Intonation Patterns In spoken English, if you stress the wrong syllable, you can totally lose the meaning of a word: MA-sheen is hardly recognizable as ma-SHEEN or machine. At this point, we won't be conc...
