Exercise 2-13: PracticingLiaisons CD 3 Track 1 Back up the CD to the last paragraph just read and repeat again. Thistime, however, read from theparagraph below. The intonation is marked for you in boldface. Use your rubber band on everystressed word....
Exercise 2-14: Additional Liaison Practice CD 3 Track 2 T Use these techniques on texts of your own and in conversation. (1) Take some written material and mark the intonation, then the word groups, and finally theliaisons. (2) Practice saying it out...
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,...
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...
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 3-1 : Word-by-Word and in a Sentence CD 3 Track6 图片1...
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 3-3: 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 3-4: 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 3-5: 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 3-6: 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...
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 4-1 ; Stressed and Unstressed T CD 3 Thick 13 Repeat after me. 图片1...
Exercise 4-2: Betty Bought a Bit of Better Butter CD 3 Track 14 In the sentence Betty bought a bit of better butter, all of the Ts are in weak positions, so they allsound like soft Ds. Repeat the sentence slowly, word by word: [Beddy ... badə... bidə...
Exercise 4-3: Rute 1Top of the Staircase CD 3 Track 15 When a T is at the top of a staircase, in a stressed position, it should be a clear popped sound. 1. In the beginning of a word, T is [t]. Ted took ten tomatoes. 2. With a stressed T and ST, TS,...
