TY - BOOK AU - Lane, Linda TI - Focus on Pronunciation SN - 9780132315005 (pbk.) PY - 2013/// CY - Upper Saddle River, N.J. PB - Pearson Education KW - High-intermediate / Advanced N1 - ''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 UR - https://pearsonerpi.com/en/elt/listening-and-speaking/focus-on-pronunciation-3-student-book-231500 UR - https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/v2/search?query=9780132315005&searchType=smart ER -