Exercise 5-6: Finding L Sounds CD 3 Track 31 Pause the CD, and find and mark all the L sounds in the familiar paragraph below; the first one ismarked for you. There are seventeen of them; five are silent. Afterwards, check Answer Key, beginning on pa...
Exercise 5-7: Silent Ls CD3 Track 32 Once you've found all the L sounds, the good news is that very often you don't even have topronounce them. Read the following list of words after me. 1. would could should 2. chalk talk walk 3. calm palm psalm 4....
Exercise 5-8: Hold Your Tongue! CD 3 Track 33 You and I are going to read with ourtongues 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 droppedyour tongue b...
Exercise 5-9: Little Lola CD 3 Track 34 Now that we've done this, instead of L being a hard letter to pronounce, it's the easiest onebecause the tongue is stuck in that position. Pause the CD to practice the reading on your own,again, with your tongu...
Exercise 5-10: Dull versus ~dle CD 3Track 35 Repeat after me 图片1...
Exercise 5-11 : Final L Practice CD 3 Track 36 Repeat the following lists. 图片1 To hear the difference between [dəl] and [dəəl], contrast the sentences, Don't lay dull tiles andDon't ladle tiles....
Exercise 5-12: Thirty Little Turtles In a Bottle of Bottled Water CD 3 Track 37 Repeat the following paragraph, focusing on the consonant +əl combinations. Thrdee Liddəl Terdəl ZinəBddələBddəl Dwder A bottle of bottled water held 30 little tur...
Exercise 5-13: Speed-reading CD 3 Track 38 We've already practiced strong intonation, so nowwe'll just pick up the speed. First I'm going toread our familiar paragraph, as fastas I can. Subsequently, you'llpractice on your own, and thenwe'll go over...
Exercise 5-14: Tandem Reading CD 3 Track39 The last reading that I'd like you to do is one along with me. Up to now, I have read first and youhave repeated in the pause that followed. Now, however, I would like you to read along at exactlythe same ti...
Voice Quality CD 3 Track 40 In the next chapter, we'll beworking on a sound that is produced deep in the throatthe American R. In Chapter 3, westudied two tense vowels, and , and the completely neutralschwa, ə. The sound has a tendency tosound a lit...
Exercise 5-15: Shifting Your Voice Position CD 3 Track 41 Pinch your nose closed and say. You should feel a high vibration in your nasal passages, as wellas in your fingers. Now, continue holding your nose, and completely relax your throatallow an ah...
Chapter 6. The American R CD 3 Track 42 American English, todayalthough continually changingis made up of the sounds of thevarious people who have come tosettle here from many countries. All of them have put in theirlinguistic two cents, the end resu...
Exercise 6-1: R Location Practice CD 3 Track 43 Repeat after me. [g], [gr], greek, green, grass, grow, crow, core, cork, coral, cur, curl, girl, gorilla,her, erg, error,mirror, were, war, gore, wrong, wringer, church, pearlWhile you're perfecting you...
Exercise 6-2 : Double Vowel with R CD 3 Track 44 Refer to the subsequent lists of sounds and words as you work through each of the directions thatfollow them. Repeat each sound, first the vowel and then the [ər], and each word in columns 1 to 3. We...
Exercise 6-3: How to Pronounce Troublesome Rs CD 3 Track 45 The following seven R sounds, which are represented by the ten words, give people a lot of trouble,so we're going to work with them and make them easy for you. Repeat. 图片1 1. Were is pro...
