Exercise 8-4: Bit or Beat? Bid orBead? CD 4 Track 18 Read each column down. Next, contrast the singleand double tense vowels with each other; and thesingle and double lax vowels with each other. Finally read all four across. 图片1 Note Bear in mind...
Exercise 8-3; Bit or Beat? CD 4 Track 17 We've discussed intonation in terms of new information, contrast, opinion, and negatives. As youheard on p. 3, Americans tend to stretch out certain one-syllable words ... but which ones? Theanswer is simplewh...
Exercise 8-2: Lax Vowels CD 4 Track 16 The lax vowels are produced in the throat and are actually quite similar to each other. Let's practicesome lax vowels. See also Chapter 11 to contrastwith tense vowels. Remember to double the vowelwhen the word...
Exercise 8-1 : Comparing [u] and [] CD 4 Track 15 Look at the chart that follows and repeat eachword. We are contrasting the sound [u] (firstcolumn)a strong, nonreducible sound, ooh, that is made far forward in the mouth, with the lipsfully roundedwi...
Chapter 8. More Reduced Sounds CD 4 Track14 There are two sounds that look similar, but sound quite different. One is the tense vowel [u],pronounced ooh, and the other is the soft vowel [], whose pronunciation is a combination of ihand uh. The [u] so...
Exercise 7-3: Tongue Twisters CD 4 Track 13 Feeling confident? Good! Try the following tongue twisters and have some fun. 1. The sixth sick Sheik's sixth thick sheep. 2. This is a zither. Is this a zither? 3. I thoughta thought. But the thought Ithou...
Exercise 7-2: Targeting The TH Sound CD 4 Track 12 In order to target the TH sound, first, hold a mirror in front of you and read our familiar paragraphsilently, moving only your tongue. It should be visible in the mirror each time you come to a TH.S...
Exercise 7-1 : The Throng of Thermometers CD 4 Track 11 I'm going to read the following paragraph once straight through, so you can hear that no matter howfast I read it, all the THs are still there. It is a distinctive sound, but, when you repeat it...
Chapter 7. Tee Aitch CD 4 Track 10 I'd like you to consider words as rocks for a moment. When a rock first rolls into the ocean, it issharp and well defined. After tumbling about for a few millennia, it becomes round and smooth.A word goes through a...
Review Exercise 10: Ignorance on Parade Explanations. CD 4 Track 9 Here, go over each topic, point by point. 1. Two-word phrases, intonation and phrasing a proton from a crouton? (contrast) Well, you're not the only one. (contrast) Arecent nationwide...
