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