TY - BOOK AU - Lane, Linda. TI - Focus on Pronunciation 3 / SN - 9780130978790 (Student Book) PY - 2005/// CY - New York PB - Pearson Longman KW - English language KW - Textbooks for foreign speakers KW - Studying and teaching KW - Pronunciation KW - Problems and exercises KW - Audio-visual aid. N1 - 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 UR - https://goo.gl/BLGqy6 ER -