Review Exercise G: Three-Word PhraseStoryThree Little Pigs CD 4 Track 1 Notice where there are patterns, where the words change, but the rhythm stays the same (strawcutting tools, woodcutting tools, bricklaying tools). Read the story aloud. Once upon...
Review Exercise H: Sentence BalanceGoldilocks CD 4 Track 2 One of the most fascinating things about spoken English is howthe intonation prepares thelistener for what is coming. As you know, the main job of intonation is to announce newinformation. Ho...
Four-Word Phrases Review Exercise I: Multiple Modifiers with Set Phrases CD 4 Track 3 When you continue to modify a set phrase, you maintain the original intonation pattern and simplyadd an additional stress point. 图片1...
Review Exercise J: Compound intonation of Numbers CD 4 Track 4 In short phrases (#1 and #2), ~teen can be thought of as a separate word in terms of intonation. Inlonger phrases, the number + ~teen becomes one word. Repeat after me. 图片1...
Review Exercise K: Modify ing Three-WordSet Phrases CD 4 Track 5 When you continue to modify a set phrase, you maintain the original intonation pattern and simplyadd an unstressed modifier. 图片1...
Review Exercise L: Four-Word Phrase StoryLittle Red Riding Hood CD 4Treck 6 Repeat after me. Once upon a time, there was a cute little redhead named Little RedRiding Hood. One day, shetold her mother that she wanted to take a well-stockedpicnic baske...
Review Exercise M: Building Upto Five-Word Phrases CD 4 Track 7 图片1 图片2 图片3...
Review Exercise 9: Ignorance on Parade CD 4 track 8 Now, let's dissect a standard paragraph, including its title, as we did in Review Exercise 1. Firstinthe boxes in the first paragraph, decide which is a descriptive phrase, which is a set phrase, an...
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...
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...
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...
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 7-3: 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...
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 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...
