Chapter 4. The American T CD 3 Track 12 The American T is influenced verystrongly by intonation and its position in a word or phrase. Atthe top of a staircase T is pronounced T as in Ted or Italian; a T in the middle of a staircase ispronounced as D...
Exercise 3-6: Reading the [ə] Sound CD 3 Track 11 When you read the following schwa paragraph, try clenching your teeth the first time. It won'tsound completely natural, but it will get rid of all of the excess lip and jaw movement and forceyour ton...
Exercise 3-5: Reading the [] Sound CD strack 10 A Lt of Lng, Ht Walks in the Garden John was not sorry when the boss called off the walks in the garden. Obviously, to him, it wasawfully hot, and the walks were far too long. He had not thought that wa...
Exercise 3-4: Reading the [] Sound CD 3 Track 9 The Tn Mn A fashionably tan man sat casually at the bat stand, lashing a handful of practice bats. Themanager, a crabby old bag of bones, passed by and laughed, You're about average, Jack. Can'tyou lash...
Exercise 3-3: Vowel-Sound Differentiation CD 3 Track 8 Here we will read down from 1 to 24, thenwe will read each row across. Give the [ā] sound a cleardouble sound [+ ee]. Also, the [o] is a longer sound than you might be expecting. Add the full oo...
Exercise 3-2: Finding [], [], and [ə] Sounds CD 3 Track 7 There are five [], ten [], and seventy-five [ə] sounds in the following paragraph. Underscore themin pen or pencil. (The first one of each sound is marked for you.) Hello, my name is________...
Exercise 3-1 : Word-by-Word and in a Sentence CD 3 Track6 图片1...
Chapter 3. Cat? Caught? Cut? CD 3 Track 5 After laying our foundation with intonation and liaisons, here we finally begin to refine yourpronunciation! We are now going to work on the differencesbetween [?], [?], and [?], as well as[ō], [ā], and [ē...
Exercise 2-16: Liaison Staircases CD 3 Track 4 You are going to make staircases again from me paragraph belowpretty much as you did inExercise 1-17 on page 16. This time, instead of putting a whole wordon each stairstep, put a singlesound on each ste...
Exercise 2-15: Colloquial Reductions and Liaisons CD 3 Track 3 In order for you to recognize these sounds when used by native speakers, they are presented here,but I don't recommend that you go out of your way touse them yourself. If, at some point,...
