Lane, Linda.
Focus on Pronunciation 3 / Linda Lane. - 1st ed. - New York: Pearson Longman, 2005. - 259 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. + 2 CDs. - Focus on Pronunciation. .
Includes index and appendices.
"Focus on Pronunciation 3 gives high-intermediate to advanced students the tools, tips, and techniques to help them speak English clearly and accurately. The variety of activities and accessible style make learning fun. A five-part structure allows focused practice in individual sound areas: Vowels; Consonants; Syllables and Stress in Words; Rhythm; and Intonation" (Book cover). Introduction Part 1 Vowels
Unit 1: Vowel overview
Unit 2: sleep and sip
Unit 3: wait, wet, and wit
Unit 4: man and men
Unit 5: lock and luck Unit 6: head, had, hut and hot Unit 7: Vowels followed by r Unit 8: boat, bought, and pot
Unit 9: cool, could, and cute
Unit 10: wide, house, and boy Part 2: Consonants
Unit 11: Consonant overview Unit 12: Beginning and final consonants Joining final consonants
Voicing of final consonants
Unit 13: -ed endings Unit 14: "TH: sounds: think and these
Unit 15: pack, back, fan, van, and west Unit 16: sign, zero, shop, and television Unit 17: check and judge Unit 18: "S" endings
Unit 19: yet and jet Joining vowels with y Clusters with y regular Unit 20: r rate Consonant clusters with r growth
Unit 21: Beginning l light Consonant clusters with l
Contrasts: l and r Unit 22: Final l: feel Unit 23: m some, n sun, and n sung
Syllabic nasals: sudden Glottalized "t" and syllabic nasals: cotton Unit 24: h heavy
Reductions of H-words Unit 25: Beginning consonant clusters Unit 26: Final consonants clusters Joining final consonants Part 3: Syllables and Stress Within Words
Unit 27: Syllables and stress within words: overview Unit 28: Primary and secondary stress
Pronouncing unstressed syllables
"Dropped" syllables Unit 29: Predicting stress: parts of speech and suffixes Unit 30: Compound nouns Stress in numbers Unit 31: Words used as nouns or verbs Words with prepositional prefixes Part 4: Rhythm Unit 32: Rhythm overview
Unit 33: Stress and unstressed words
Stress patterns
Unit 34: Highlighting words Unit 35: Thought groups Thought groups and intonation
Joining thought groups Unit 36: Rhythm patterns: personal pronouns Unit 37: Rhythm, patterns: articles Unit 38: Rhythm, patterns: prepositional phrases
"Hafta, gonna, wanna" Unit 39: Rhythm patterns: two-word verbs
Unit 40: Rhythm patterns: as, than, if Unit 41: Rhythm patterns: that Consonant clusters with "TH"
Intonation and clauses Unit 42: Contractions and reductions of verbs Unit 43: Reduction of modal perfects Reduction of "H-words" Part 5: Intonation
Unit 44: Intonation overview Unit 45: Pitch range Intonation groups
Final intonation patterns Unit 46: Listing intonation Rising intonation on question words Unit 47: Tag questions Drop-rise intonation Unit 48: Nonfinal intonation Unit 49: Expressive intonation
Unit exercise answers Appendix I: for team 1 players Appendix II: for team 2 players
Appendix III: Spelling patterns and silent letters
9780130978790 (Student Book)
English language --Textbooks for foreign speakers
English language --Studying and teaching
English language --Problems and exercises --Pronunciation
English language --Audio-visual aid. --Pronunciation
Focus on Pronunciation 3 / Linda Lane. - 1st ed. - New York: Pearson Longman, 2005. - 259 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. + 2 CDs. - Focus on Pronunciation. .
Includes index and appendices.
"Focus on Pronunciation 3 gives high-intermediate to advanced students the tools, tips, and techniques to help them speak English clearly and accurately. The variety of activities and accessible style make learning fun. A five-part structure allows focused practice in individual sound areas: Vowels; Consonants; Syllables and Stress in Words; Rhythm; and Intonation" (Book cover). Introduction Part 1 Vowels
Unit 1: Vowel overview
Unit 2: sleep and sip
Unit 3: wait, wet, and wit
Unit 4: man and men
Unit 5: lock and luck Unit 6: head, had, hut and hot Unit 7: Vowels followed by r Unit 8: boat, bought, and pot
Unit 9: cool, could, and cute
Unit 10: wide, house, and boy Part 2: Consonants
Unit 11: Consonant overview Unit 12: Beginning and final consonants Joining final consonants
Voicing of final consonants
Unit 13: -ed endings Unit 14: "TH: sounds: think and these
Unit 15: pack, back, fan, van, and west Unit 16: sign, zero, shop, and television Unit 17: check and judge Unit 18: "S" endings
Unit 19: yet and jet Joining vowels with y Clusters with y regular Unit 20: r rate Consonant clusters with r growth
Unit 21: Beginning l light Consonant clusters with l
Contrasts: l and r Unit 22: Final l: feel Unit 23: m some, n sun, and n sung
Syllabic nasals: sudden Glottalized "t" and syllabic nasals: cotton Unit 24: h heavy
Reductions of H-words Unit 25: Beginning consonant clusters Unit 26: Final consonants clusters Joining final consonants Part 3: Syllables and Stress Within Words
Unit 27: Syllables and stress within words: overview Unit 28: Primary and secondary stress
Pronouncing unstressed syllables
"Dropped" syllables Unit 29: Predicting stress: parts of speech and suffixes Unit 30: Compound nouns Stress in numbers Unit 31: Words used as nouns or verbs Words with prepositional prefixes Part 4: Rhythm Unit 32: Rhythm overview
Unit 33: Stress and unstressed words
Stress patterns
Unit 34: Highlighting words Unit 35: Thought groups Thought groups and intonation
Joining thought groups Unit 36: Rhythm patterns: personal pronouns Unit 37: Rhythm, patterns: articles Unit 38: Rhythm, patterns: prepositional phrases
"Hafta, gonna, wanna" Unit 39: Rhythm patterns: two-word verbs
Unit 40: Rhythm patterns: as, than, if Unit 41: Rhythm patterns: that Consonant clusters with "TH"
Intonation and clauses Unit 42: Contractions and reductions of verbs Unit 43: Reduction of modal perfects Reduction of "H-words" Part 5: Intonation
Unit 44: Intonation overview Unit 45: Pitch range Intonation groups
Final intonation patterns Unit 46: Listing intonation Rising intonation on question words Unit 47: Tag questions Drop-rise intonation Unit 48: Nonfinal intonation Unit 49: Expressive intonation
Unit exercise answers Appendix I: for team 1 players Appendix II: for team 2 players
Appendix III: Spelling patterns and silent letters
9780130978790 (Student Book)
English language --Textbooks for foreign speakers
English language --Studying and teaching
English language --Problems and exercises --Pronunciation
English language --Audio-visual aid. --Pronunciation