Exercise 5-6: Finding L Sounds Pause the CD, and find and mark all the L sounds in the familiar paragraph below; the first one is marked for you. There are seventeen of them; five are silent. Afterwards, check Answer Key, beginning on page 193. Exerc...
Voice Quality In the next chapter, we'll be working on a sound that is produced deep in the throat the American R. In Chapter 3, we studied two tense vowels, and , and the completely neutral schwa, The sound has a tendency to sound a little nasal all...
Exercise 5-14: Tandem Reading The last reading that I'd like you to do is one along with me. Up to now, I have read first and you have repeated in the pause that followed. Now, however, I would like you to read along at exactly the same time that I r...
Exercise 5-13: Speed-reading We've already practiced strong intonation, so now we'll just pick up the speed. First I'm going to read our familiar paragraph, as fast as I can. Subsequently, you'll practice on your own, and then we'll go over it togeth...
Exercise 5-12: Thirty Little Turtles In a Bottle of Bottled Water Repeat the following paragraph, focusing on the consonant + l combinations. Thrdee Liddl Terdl Zin Bddl Bddl Dwder A bottle of bottled water held 30 little turtles. It didn't matter th...
Exercise 5-11 : Final L Practice Repeat the following lists. bull pull wool full Schultz tulle you'll ball hall hauled pall wall fall shawl tall vault yawl call bowel howl howled Powell foul towel vowel yowl cowl bell hell held pell well fell shell t...
Exercise 5-10: She lay on her linoleum and slid along the floor in anguish. A little later, she leapt up and laughed. She no longer longed for a leader to tell her how to live her life. Little Lola was finally all well. Dull versus dle Repeat after m...
Exercise 5-9: Little Lola Now that we've done this, instead of L being a hard letter to pronounce, it's the easiest one because the tongue is stuck in that position. Pause the CD to practice the reading on your own, again, with your tongue stuck to t...
Exercise 5-8: Hold Your Tongue! You and I are going to read with our tongues firmly held at the roofs of our mouths. If you want, hold a clean dime there with the tongue's tip; the dime will let you know when you have dropped your tongue because it w...
Exercise 5-6: Finding L Sounds Pause the CD, and find and mark all the L sounds in the familiar paragraph below; the first one is marked for you. There are seventeen of them; five are silent. Afterwards, check Answer Key, beginning on page 193. Exerc...
