Volume 25 in the Language Testing and Evaluation Series.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each article.

"Focus on Pronunciation 1 gives beginning to high-beginning student the tools, tops, and techniques to help them speak English clearly and accurately. The variety of activities and accessible style make learning fun. A three-part structure allows focused practice in individual sound areas: Vowels; Consonants; and Stress, Rhythm, and Intonation" (Book cover).

CONTENTS:

Introduction

Part 1: Vowels

Unit 1: Vowel overview

Unit 2: eat and it

Unit 3: bad and bed

Unit 4: cop and cup

Unit 5: Review of, and

Unit 6: Vowels + r: car, four, and bird

Unit 7: Consonants review

Unit 8: three and this

Unit 9: pen, boy, foot, very, and wet

Unit 10: sun, zoo, shoe, and television

Unit 11: chair and jet; jet and yet

Unit 12: road and love

Unit 13: mouth, nose and sing

Unit 14: Word endings: plurals and present tense

Unit 15: Word endings: past tense

Unit 16: Consonant groups

Unit 17: Stress, rhythm, and intonation overview

Unit 18: Strong stress and secondary stress in words

Unit 19: Weak syllables in words

Unit 20: Stress in compound nouns and numbers

Unit 21: Strong words and weak words in sentence

Unit 22: Highlighting the strongest word

Unit 23: Common weak words

Unit 24: Contractions

Unit 25: Word groups

Unit 26: Joining final sounds to beginning sounds

Unit 27: Rising and falling intonation

Unit 28: Using your voice to show your feelings

Self-Study

Self-Study answer key

Unit exercise answers

Appendix I: for team 1 players

Appendix II: for team 2 players