Lane, Linda.  <br/><br/>
Focus on Pronunciation 3 /  
Linda Lane.  
 - 1st ed.  
 - New York:  Pearson Longman,  2005. 
 - 259 p. :   ill. ;   26 cm.   + 2 CDs.  
 - Focus on Pronunciation.  .
<br/><br/> Includes index and appendices. <br/> 
<br/><br/>"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<br/> Unit 1: Vowel overview<br/> Unit 2: sleep and sip <br/> Unit 3: wait, wet, and wit<br/> Unit 4: man and men<br/> Unit 5: lock and luck Unit 6: head, had, hut and hot Unit 7: Vowels followed by r Unit 8: boat, bought, and pot<br/> Unit 9: cool, could, and cute<br/> Unit 10: wide, house, and boy Part 2: Consonants <br/> Unit 11: Consonant overview Unit 12: Beginning and final consonants  Joining final consonants <br/>  Voicing of final consonants <br/> Unit 13: -ed endings Unit 14: "TH: sounds: think and these<br/> Unit 15: pack, back, fan, van, and west Unit 16: sign, zero, shop, and television Unit 17: check and judge Unit 18: "S" endings <br/>Unit 19: yet and jet Joining vowels with y Clusters with y regular Unit 20: r rate  Consonant clusters with r growth <br/>Unit 21: Beginning l light  Consonant clusters with l <br/>  Contrasts: l and r Unit 22: Final l: feel Unit 23: m some, n sun, and n sung<br/>  Syllabic nasals: sudden  Glottalized "t" and syllabic nasals: cotton Unit 24: h heavy<br/>  Reductions of H-words Unit 25: Beginning consonant clusters Unit 26: Final consonants clusters  Joining final consonants Part 3: Syllables and Stress Within Words <br/>Unit 27: Syllables and stress within words: overview Unit 28: Primary and secondary stress<br/> Pronouncing unstressed syllables  <br/>"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<br/> Unit 33: Stress and unstressed words  <br/>Stress patterns <br/>Unit 34: Highlighting words Unit 35: Thought groups  Thought groups and intonation<br/>  Joining thought groups Unit 36: Rhythm patterns: personal pronouns Unit 37: Rhythm, patterns: articles Unit 38: Rhythm, patterns: prepositional phrases<br/>  "Hafta, gonna, wanna" Unit 39: Rhythm patterns: two-word verbs<br/> Unit 40: Rhythm patterns: as, than, if Unit 41: Rhythm patterns: that   Consonant clusters with "TH"<br/>  Intonation and clauses Unit 42: Contractions and reductions of verbs Unit 43: Reduction of modal perfects  Reduction of "H-words" Part 5: Intonation<br/> Unit 44: Intonation overview  Unit 45: Pitch range  Intonation groups<br/>  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 <br/>Unit exercise answers Appendix I: for team 1 players Appendix II: for team 2 players <br/>Appendix III: Spelling patterns and silent letters 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780130978790 (Student Book) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>English language --Textbooks for foreign speakers <br/>English language --Studying and teaching<br/>English language --Problems and exercises --Pronunciation<br/>English language --Audio-visual aid. --Pronunciation