TY - BOOK AU - Hewings,Martin AU - Goldstein,Sharon TI - Pronunciation Plus: Practice Through Interaction SN - 0521577969 (Teacher's manual) PY - 1999/// CY - Cambridge, England PB - Cambridge University Press KW - English language KW - Pronunciation by foreign speakers KW - Problems, exercises, etc KW - Textbooks for foreign speakers KW - Study and teaching KW - Foreign speakers N1 - "North American English"--T.p; CONTENTS ; Key to phonetic symbols ; To the teacher ; Introduction ; Asking about pronunciation ; PART 1 VOWELS ; Introduction ; Unit 1 - The vowels /æ/ (hat), /ɪ/ (big), and /ɛ/ (red) ; Unit 2 - The vowels /a/ (father), /ə/ (bus), and /ʊ/ (book) ; Unit 3 - /ɪ/ and /ɛ/; /æ/ and /ə ; Unit 4 - The vowels /iy/ (see), /ey/ (train), /ɔ/ (call), /ow/ (no), and /uw/ (two) ; Unit 5 - /æ/ and /a/; /ɪ/ and /iy ; Unit 6 - /ə/, /ʊ/, and /uw/; /a/ and /ɔ/ ; Unit 7 - /ey/ and /ɛ/; /ow/ and /ɔ/ ; Unit 8 - /ər/ (word); vowels followed by r (car, short, chair, near) ; PART 2 CONSONANTS ; Introduction; Unit 9 - /p/ (pay), /b/ (back), /t/ (talk), /d/ (dance), /k/ (car), and /g/ (give) ; Unit 10 - /t/ and /d/; /p/ and /b ; Unit 11 - /s/ (same), /z/ (zoo), /f/ (four), /v/ (very), /θ/ (thanks), and /ð/ (this) ; Unit 12 - /θ/ and /ð/; /f/, /v/, /p/, and /b/ ; Unit 13 - /ʃ/ (should, /tʃ/ (chair), /ʒ/ (television), and /dʒ/ (job) ; Unit 14 - /w/ (walk), /y/ (yes), /l/ (late), and /r/ (rain) ; Unit 15 - /w/ and /v/; /l/ and /r ; Unit 16 - /m/ (make), /n/ (near), and /n/ (long) ; PART 3 CONSONANT CLUSTERS ; Introduction ; Unit 17 - Consonants letters and consonant sounds ; Unit 18 - Consonant clusters at the beginnings of words ; Unit 19 - More on consonant clusters at the beginnings of words ; Unit 20 - Consonant clusters at the ends of words ; Unit 21 - Syllabic consonants; more on consonant clusters at the ends of words ; Unit 22 - Groups of consonants in the middle of words; simplifying final consonants clusters ; PART 4 STRESS AND RHYTHM ; Introduction ; Unit 23 - Syllables and stress ; Unit 24 - Patterns of stress in words ; Unit 25 - More practice: stress in numbers; stress in noun compounds ; Unit 26 - Pronouncing unstressed syllables ; Unit 27 - Predicting stress in words ; Unit 28 - Rhythm ; Unit 29 - More on rhythm ; Unit 30 - Rhythm and moving stress ; PART 5 SOUNDS IN CONNECTED SPEECH ; Introduction ; Unit 31 - Slow speech and connected speech ; Unit 32 - Common words and phrases in connected speech ; Unit 33 - Linking words together: consonant + vowel ; Unit 34 - Linking words together: consonant + consonant ; Unit 35 - More on linking words together with consonants ; Unit 36 - Sounds that link words: /w/ and /y ; Unit 37 - Short sounds and disappearing /h ; PART 6 INTONATION ; Introduction ; Unit 38 - Prominent words ; Unit 39 - Repeated words and prominence ; Unit 40 - More on prominent and nonprominent words ; Unit 41 - Falling and rising intonation ; Unit 42 - More on falling and rising intonation ; Unit 43 - Leaving things open ; Unit 44 - Focus words ; Unit 45 - Predicting intonation ; PART 7 SOUNDS AND GRAMMAR ; Introduction ; Unit 46 - Weak and strong forms; short and long forms ; Unit 47 - Long and short forms of verbs ; Unit 48 - Weak forms of some pronouns; more on the long and short forms of verbs ; Unit 49 - Weak forms of some conjunctions ; Unit 50 - Weak and strong forms of some prepositions ; Unit 51 - Pronouncing -ed endings ; Unit 52 - Pronouncing -s endings ; PART 8 PRONOUNCING WRITTEN WORDS ; Introduction ; Unit 53 - Letters and sounds ; Unit 54 - Pronouncing consonant letters: c and g ; Unit 55 - Pronouncing th ; Unit 56 - Pronouncing sh, ch, and gh; other spelling for /ʃ/ and /tʃ ; Unit 57 - Pronunciation, spelling, and word stress ; Unit 58 - Pronouncing single vowel letters ; Unit 59 - Pronouncing vowel pairs ; Unit 60 - Silent letter ; Key to phonetic symbols ER -