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...
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...
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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...
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...
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 -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...
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 1-48; 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...
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...
