''The new edition of Focus on Pronunciation 3 gives high-intermediate to advanced students the tools, tips, and techniques they need to speak clearly, accurately, and fluently. All aspects of pronunciation are included - consonants, vowels, stress, rhythm, and intonation. The variety of activities and flexible, accessible style make learning fun.

Focus on Pronunciation features 'Presentation' sections feature clear explanations and diagrams. 'Focused Practice' sections build accuracy with high-interest listening and speaking tasks and engaging games.
'Communication Practice' sections integrate pronunciation and fluency practice in a communicative, thematic context.
'Natural English' boxes illustrate how to speak English more naturally and fluently.
'The Student Audio CD-ROM' in the back of the book provides MP3 audio for the Extended Practice sections.
'Classroom Audio CDs' provide the complete audio program.
Complete online 'Answer Keys' and 'Audioscripts' can be downloaded. Go to www.personELT.com/focusonpronunciation for more information.'' (Book Cover)

CONTENTS

Introduction

PART I - VOWELS

Unit 1 - Vowel Overview

Unit 2 - /iy/ sleep and /I/ slip

Unit 3 - /ey/ wait, /e/ wet, and /i/ wit; Alternating Vowels

Unit 4 - /ae/ man and /e/ men; Alternating Vowels

Unit 5 - /a/ lock and luck; Reduction of Unstressed Vowels

Unit 6 - Review: /e/ head, /ae/ hat, hut, and /a/ hot

Unit 7 - Vowels Followed by; The Complex Sound in world

Unit 8 - /ow/ boat, bought, and /a/ pot; Alternating vowels /ow/ /a/; Dialects

Unit 9 - /uw/ cool, /u/ could, and /yuw/ cute; Alternating Vowels: /uw/ or /yuw/; The Sequence /wu/ woman

Unit 10 - /ay/ wide, /aw/ house, and /oy/ boy; Joining Vowels Together; Alternating Vowels: /ay/ /I/

PART II - CONSONANTS

Unit 11 - Consonant Overview

Unit 12 - Beginning and Final Consonants; Joining Final Consonants

Unit 13 - -ed Endings; Flapped /t/ and /d/

Unit 14 - TH sounds: think and these

Unit 15 - /p/ pack, /b/ back, /f/ fan, /v/ van, and /w/ west

Unit 16 - /s/ sign, /z/ zero, shop, and television

Unit 17 - /ts/ check and /dz/ judge

Unit 18 - -s endings

Unit 19 - /y/ yet and /dz/ 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/: blue; Contrasts: /l/ and /r/, /l/ and /n/

Unit 22 - Final /I/ feel; Contrastions of will

Unit 23 - /m/ some, /n/ sun, and sing; Syllabic Nasals: sudden; Glottalized t and Syllabic Nasals: cotton

Unit 24 - /h/ heavy; Reduction of H-words

Unit 25 - Beginning Consonant Clusters

Unit 26 - Final Consonant Clusterss; Joining Final Consonants

PART III - SYLLABLES AND STRESS WITHIN WORDS

Unit 27 - Syllable and Stress in Words: Overview

Unit 28 - Primary and Secondary Stress; Unstressed Syllables, Movable Stress

Unit 29 - Predicting Stress; Parts of Speech and Suffixes

Unit 30 - Compound Noun; Stress in Numbers

Unit 31 - Words Used as Nouns or Verbs; Words with Prepositional Prefixes

PART IV - RHYTHM

Unit 32 - Rhythm Overview

Unit 33 - Stressed and Unstressed Words

Unit 34 - Highlighting

Unit 35 - Thought Groups

Unit 36 - Rhythm Patterns and Personal Pronouns

Unit 37 - Rhythm Patterns: Articles

Unit 38 - Rhythm Patterns: Prepositional Phrases; Halfta, Gonna, Wanna

Unit 39 - Rhythm Patterns: Phrasal Verbs

Unit 40 - Rhythm Patterns: as, than, if

Unit 41 - Rhythm Patterns: Conjunction that; Intonation and Clauses

Unit 42 - Contractions and Reductions of Verbs; Can and Can't

Unit 43 - Reduction of Modal Perfect; Reduction of ''H-words''

PART V - INTONATION

Unit 44 - Intonation Overview

Unit 45 - Final Intonation Patterns

Unit 46 - Listing Intonation; Rising Intonation on Question Words

Unit 47 - Checking Understanding; Low-Rising Intonation with Yes/No Questions

Unit 48 - Contrastive Stress; Non-Final Intonation

Unit 49 - Parentheticals and Appositives

Appendix 1: For Team A Players / Student A

Appendix 2: For Team B Players / Student B

Appendix 3: Recording and Sending a Sound File

Student Audio CD-ROM Tracking Guide