Includes glossary, transcripts and appendices.

"EAS Speaking and Pronunciation is for students who need to communicate clearly and effectively in an academic environment. The book is designed to help students develop the speaking skills they need to participate in academic classes and discussions and to enable them to improve their presentation skills. It makes use of engaging topics such as changing roles in the family, the influence of the media, and science and the paranormal. The book also aims to help students develop their pronunciation to a level that will enable the listener to understand them with ease. The Speaking and Pronunciation sections can be studied separately, or used together as part of an integrated program of study" (Book Cover).

CONTENTS:

Speaking

i. Introduction

01. Topic: Communicating in Academic Situations

Skills focus: Delivering a presentation

Language focus: - Reporting back on a discussion
- Agreeing and disagreeing
- Using signpost expressions

02. Topic: Classes and Discussions

Skills focus: - Recognizing different perspectives
- Reaching a balanced conclusion

Language focus: - Comparing perspectives
- Summarizing the outcome of a discussion
- Chairing a discussion

03. Topic: Examining Underlying Assumptions

Skills focus: - Presenting information from an article
- Anticipating arguments before a discussion

Language focus: - Referring to an article
- Exchanging opinions

04. Topic: Reading into Speaking

Skills focus: - Using a text to support your ideas
- Listening actively
- Exchanging information (1)

Language focus: Clarifying and confirming understanding

05. Topic: The Use of Data

Skills focus:
- Presenting information from charts
- Building on what others have said

Language focus:
- Referring to data
- Referring to what previous speakers have said

06. Topic: Consolidation Unit

Skills focus: Leading a class

Language focus: Review and consolidation

07. Topic: Supporting Your Point of View

Skills focus: - Finding a focus for a presentation
- Preparing for a discussion by thinking the issues through

Language focus: Taking turns in a discussion

08. Topic: Collecting and Presenting Data

Skills focus: - Designing a questionnaire
- Participating in a debate

Language focus: Expressing quantity

09. Topic: Thinking Rationally

Skills focus: Presenting a research proposal

Language focus: Expressing doubt and belief

10. Topic: The Importance of Reflection

Skills focus: Exchanging information (2)

Language focus: Review and consolidation

g. Glossary

r. Reading Texts

t. Transcripts

a. Appendices:

Appendix 1 - Signpost Expressions for Presentations

Appendix 2 - Table

Appendix 3 - Sample OHTs

Appendix 4 - Preparing and Planning a Presentation

Appendix 5 - Possible Topics for Class Discussions

Appendix 6 - Career Drivers Questionnaire

Appendix 7 - Sample Proposal

Appendix 8 - Useful Language

Appendix 9 - Photocopiable Handouts

Pronunciation

i. Introduction

p. Phonetic Alphabet

1. Vowel Sounds 1, Word Stress and Weak Forms

Topic: - Vowel sounds: [æ], [e], [ɪ], [ɑ:], [ʢ:], [i:]
- Syllables and word stress
- Weak forms in function words

Objectives: - Learn which phonemic symbols represent certain vowel sounds
- Practice recognizing and producing these vowel sounds
- Learn about the concepts of the syllable and word stress
- Practice producing words with the correct word stress
- Practice recognizing weak forms of function words when listening

2. Vowel Sounds 2, Word Stress Patterns

Topic: - Vowel sounds: [ɒ], [ʌ], [ɚ], [ʊ], [ɔ:], [u:]
- Unstressed syllables and word stress patterns

Objectives: - Learn which phonemic symbols represent the other vowel sounds
- Practice recognizing and producing these vowel sounds
- Learn more about which syllable is stressed in some types of word

3. Consonant Sounds 1, Sentence Stress

Topic: - Voiced and unvoiced consonants
- Consonant sounds: [θ], [ð], [t], [s]
- Sentence stress

Objectives: - Learn about the pronunciation of voiced and unvoiced consonants
- Practice recognizing and producing these sounds
- Learn to identify stressed words in sentences
- Practice using sentence stress to highlight important information

4. Consonant Sounds 2, Word Stress on Two-Syllable Words

Topic: - Consonant sounds: [ʒ], [v], [ɺ], [ʃ], [tʃ ], [dʒ]
- Word stress on two-syllable words

Objectives: - Learn more phonemic symbols representing consonant sounds
- Practice recognizing and producing these consonant sounds
- Learn where to place the stress in words with two syllables

5. Diphthongs 1, Sounds in Connected Speech

Topic:

- Diphthongs: [aɪ], [oʊ], [eɪ]
- Sounds in connected speech: linking, insertion

Objectives:
- Learn which phonemic symbols represent certain diphthongs
- Practice recognizing and producing diphthongs
- Learn how the pronunciation of words is affected by their context in connected speech

6. Consonant Clusters 1, Tone Units 1

Topic: - Consonant clusters: at the beginner and in the middle of words
- Sounds in connected speech: disappearing sounds, contractions
- Tone units

Objectives: - Learn how to pronounce groups of consonants (consonant clusters) at the beginning and in the middle of words
- Learn how to divide up connected speech into tone units

7. Diphthongs 2, Tone Units 2

Topic: - Diphthongs: [aʊ], [eɚ], [ɪɚ], [ɔɪ]
- Sentence stress and tone units

Objectives: - Learn which phonemic symbols represent other diphthongs
- Practice recognizing and producing these diphthongs
- Have more practice identifying sentence stress and tone units

8. Consonant Clusters 2, Intonation

Topic: - Consonant clusters: at the end of words and across two words
- Intonation

Objectives:
- Learn how to pronounce consonant clusters at the end of words and across two words
- Learn how intonation is used to organize and emphasize information

g. Glossary

t. Transcripts

Upper intermediate to proficiency.