Exercise 10-1 : When S Becomes Z CD 4 Track 31 Under Contrast, in the list that follows, notice how the voiced wordis drawn out and then repeat theword after me. Both voiced and unvoiced diphthongs have the underlying structure of the tone shift,or t...
Exercise 10-2: A Surly Sergeant Socked an Insolent Sailor CD 4 Track 32 Repeat the S sounds in the paragraph below. Sam, a surly sergeant from Cisco, Texas, saw a sailor sit silently on a small seat reserved foryoungsters. He stayed for several minut...
Exercise 10-3: Allz Well That Endz Well CD 4 Track33 Repeat the Z sounds in the paragraph below. A lazy Thursday at the zoo found the zebrasgrazing on zinnias, posing for pictures, and teasingthe zookeeper, whose nose wasbronzed by the sun. The bigge...
Exercise 10-4: Voiced and Unvoiced Endings in the Past Tense CD 4 Track 34 The following will explain the differences between four expressions that are similar in appearance butdifferent in both meaning and pronunciation. 图片1 Used to, depending o...
Exercise 10-5: Finding S and Z Sounds CD 4 Track 35 Go through the paragraph and underline all of the [s] sounds. The first, [ksent] is marked for you.Next, circle all of the [z] sounds, no matter how the word is written (is = [iz], as = [z], and so...
Exercise 10-4; Application Steps with S and Z CD 4 Track 36 Build up the following sentence, adding each aspect one at a time. Always be a little kinder than necessary. 1. Intonation Always be a little kinder than necessary. 2. Word Groups Always be...
Exercise 10-7: Your Own Application Steps with S and Z CD 4 Track 37 Write your own sentence, and then build it up, adding each aspect one at a time. 图片1...
Chapter 11. Tense and Lax Vowels In this chapter, we tackle tense and lax vowels. This is the difference between [ā], tense, and [], lax,[ē], tense, and [i], lax. We will start with tense vowels. Exercise 11-1; Tense Vowels CD 4 Track 38 Don't pay...
Exercise 11 -2: Tense Vowels Practice Paragraph CD 4 Track39 Go through the subsequent paragraph and mark all the tense vowels, starting with [ā] (there are 12here). The first one is name [nim], not [nm]. The first [ē] sound (14) is the American. T...
Exercise 11-3: Lax Vowels CD 4 Track 40 As we saw in Chapter 8, these are the lax vowels. 图片1...
Exercise 11-4: Lax Vowels Practice Paragraph CD 4 Track 41 Again, go over this paragraph and mark the lax vowels, starting with []. The first one (of about 12possible) is in hello or American. The first [i] sound (of 9 to 22) may be found in is. (The...
Exercise 11-5: Take a High-Tech Tack CD 4 Track 42 Repeat the following paragraph and words after me. Sāy, Rāy, tāke a tack. A high-tack tack? No, Rāy, a high-tech tack, eight high-tech tacks, tāke them.Then find a wāy to māke a plāce for the...
Exercise 11 -6: Pick a Peak CD 4 Track 43 Repeat the following paragraph and words after me. Boldfaced elements represent the [ē] sound.The [i] is only marked with underscoring. People who pick peaks weekly seem to need to appear deep in order to be...
Exercise 11-7: Compound Nouns and Complex Verbs CD 4 Track 44 No matter how complex the verb gets, remember to follow the basic Dogs eat bones intonation,where you stress the nouns. For the noun intonation, stick with the basic set phrase or descript...
Exercise 11-8: Your Own Compound Nouns CD 4 Track 45 Pause the CD and build up your own compound nouns, both subject and object. 图片1...
