Exercise 5-8: Hold Your Tongue! You and I are going to read with our tongues firmly held at the roofs of our mouths. If you want, hold a clean dime there with the tongue's tip; the dime will let you know when you have dropped your tongue because it w
Exercise 5-14: Tandem Reading The last reading that I'd like you to do is one along with me. Up to now, I have read first and you have repeated in the pause that followed. Now, however, I would like you to read along at exactly the same time that I r
Exercise 5-13: Speed-reading We've already practiced strong intonation, so now we'll just pick up the speed. First I'm going to read our familiar paragraph, as fast as I can. Subsequently, you'll practice on your own, and then we'll go over it togeth
Exercise 5-12: Thirty Little Turtles In a Bottle of Bottled Water Repeat the following paragraph, focusing on the consonant + l combinations. Thrdee Liddl Terdl Zin Bddl Bddl Dwder A bottle of bottled water held 30 little turtles. It didn't matter th
Exercise 5-11 : Final L Practice Repeat the following lists. bull pull wool full Schultz tulle you'll ball hall hauled pall wall fall shawl tall vault yawl call bowel howl howled Powell foul towel vowel yowl cowl bell hell held pell well fell shell t
Exercise 5-10: She lay on her linoleum and slid along the floor in anguish. A little later, she leapt up and laughed. She no longer longed for a leader to tell her how to live her life. Little Lola was finally all well. Dull versus dle Repeat after m
Exercise 8-3: Bit or Beat? We've discussed intonation in terms of new information, contrast, opinion, and negatives. As you heard on p. 3, Americans tend to stretch out certain one-syllable words but which ones? The answer is simple when a single syl
Exercise 8-7: Reduction options In the following example, you will see how you can fully sound out a word ( such as 'to' ) , reduce it slightly, or do away with it altogether. 1. ... easier t(w)nderstand. 2. ... easier t(w)nderstand. 3. ... easier t
Exercise 8-6: The middle l list The letter l in the unstressed position devolves consistently into a schwa. Repeat. Ability Accident Accountability Activity Adversity American Analytical Animal Applicant Application Article Astronomical Audible Audit
Exercise 8-5: tense and lax vowel exercise Let's practice tense and lax vowels in context. The intonation is marked for you. When in doubt, try to leave out the lax vowel rather than run the risk of overpronouncing it: lip instead of lip, so it doesn
Exercise 8-4: Bit or Beat? Bid or Bead? Read each column down. Next, contrast the single and double tense vowels with each other; and the single and double lax vowels with each other. Finally read all four across. Tense Vowels beat seat heat Pete fee
Exercise 8-2: Lax Vowels The lax vowels areproduced in the throat and are actually quite similarto each other. Let's practice some lax vowels. See also Chapter 11 to contrast with tense vowels. Remember to double the vowel when the word endsin a voic
Exercise 8-1 : Comparing and Look at the chart that follows and repeat each word. We are contrasting the sound first column a strong, nonreducible sound, ooh, that is made far forward in the mouth, with the lips fully rounded with the reduced sound i
Chapter 8 More Reduced Sounds There are two sounds that look similar, but sound quite different. One is the tense vowel , pronounced ooh, and the other is the soft vowel , whose pronunciation is a combination of ih and uh. The sound is located far fo
Exercise 7-3: Tongue Twisters Feeling confident? Good! Try the following tongue twisters and have some fun. 1. The sixth sick Sheik's sixth thick sheep. 2. This is a zither. Is this a zither? 3. I thought a thought. But the thought I thought wasn't t
Exercise 7-2: Targeting The TH Sound In order to target the TH sound, first, hold a mirror in front of you and read our familiar paragraph silently, moving only your tongue. It should be visible in the mirror each time you come to a TH. Second, find
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Receiving Letters and Packages in the Mail Celeste: Did the mail come? Anwar: Yes, you got some letters and a package. Celeste: Oh, I hope that one of those envelopes has the photos Naomi promised us. Did you notice the postmark? Anwar: No, but theyr
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