Exercise 1-47: Regular Transitions of Adjectives and Verbs CD 2 Track n A different change occurs when you go from an adjective or a noun to a verb. The stress stays in thesame place, but the -mate in an adjective is completely reduced [-m't], wherea...
Exercise 1-48; Regular Transitions of Adjectives and Verbs CD 2 Track 17 Mark the intonation or indicate the long vowel on the italicized word, depending which part ofspeech it is. Pause the CD and mark the proper syllables. See Answer Key, beginning...
The Miracle Technique CD 2 Track 18 Reg aining Lon g -Lost Listening Skills The trouble with starting accent training after you know a great de al of English is that you knowa great deal about English. You have a lot of preconcepti ons and, unfortuna...
Exercise 1 -49: Tell Me Wədai Say! CD 2 Track19 The first thing you're going to do is write down exactly what I say. It will be nonsense to you for tworeasons: First, because I will be saying sound units, not word units. Second, because I will besta...
CD 2 Track 20 图片1 V Read it out loud to yourself a nd try to hear what the regular English is. Don't look ahead untilyou've figured out the sense of it. Art is man 's attempt to improve on nature. Frequently, people will mistakenly hear Are these...
Exercise 1-50: Listening for Pure Sounds CD 2 Track 21 Again, listen care f ully and write the sounds y ou hear. The answers are below. 图片1...
Exercise 1-51 : Extended Listening Practice CD 2 Track 22 Let's do a few more pure sound exercises to fine-tune your ear. Remember, start at the end and fill inthe blanks right to left, then read them back left to right. Write whichever sy mbols are...
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Reduced Sounds CD 2 Track 24 The Down Side of Intonation Reduced sounds are all those extra sounds created by an absence of lip, tongue, jaw, and throatmovement. They are a principal function of intonation and are truly indicative of the Americansoun...
Exercise 1-52; Reducing Articles CD 2 Track 25 图片1 When you used the rubber band with [Dg zeet bounz] and when you built your own sentence,you saw that intonation reduces the unstressed words. Intonation is the peak and reduced soundsare the vall...
Exercise 1-53: Reduced Sounds CD 2 Track 26 Read aloud from the right-hand column. The intonation is marked for you. 图片1 图片2...
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Exercise 1-55: Crossing Out Reduced Sounds CD 2 Track 28 Pause the CD and cross out any sound that is not clearly pronounced, including to , fo r , and, that , than , the , a, the soft [ i], and unstressed syllables that do not have strong vowel soun...
Exercise 1-56; Reading Reduced Sounds CD 2 Track 29 Repeat the paragraph after me. Although you're get ting rid of the vowel sounds, you want tomaintain a strong intonation and let the sounds flow together. For the first reading of thisparagraph, it...
Word Groups and Phrasing CD2 Track 30 Pauses for Related Thoughts, Ideas, or for Breathing By now you've begun developing a strong intonation, with clea r peaks and reduced valleys, soyou're ready for the next step. Y ou may find yourself reading the...
