美式英语正音训练第43期:Exercise 1-57 Phrasing

Exercise 1-57: Phrasing Repeat after me. Dogs eat bones. Dogs eat bones, but cats eat fish, or As we all know, dogs eat bones. Dogs eat bones, kibbles, and meat. Do dogs eat bones? Do dogs eat bones?!! Dogs eat bones, don't they? Dogs eat bones, DON'

美式英语正音训练第44期:Exercise 1-58&59 Exercise

Exercise 1-58: Creating Word Groups Break the paragraph into natural word groups. Mark every place where you think a pause is needed with a slash. Pause the CD to do your marking. Exercise 1-59: Practicing Word Groups When I read the paragraph this t

美式英语正音训练第45期:Two-Word Phrases

Two-Word Phrases Descriptive Phrases Nouns are heavier than adjectives; they carry the weight of the new information. An adjective and a noun combination is called a descriptive phrase, and in the absence of contrast or other secondary changes, the s

美式英语正音训练第35期:Exercise 1-41 Supporting Words

第一章 练习41 Exercise 1-41：Supporting Words Exercise 1-41: Supporting Words For this next part of the intonation of grammatical elements, each sentence has a few extra words to help you get the meaning. Keep the same strong intonation that yo

美式英语正音训练第53期:陈述句语调与疑问句语调的对比

Statement Versus Question Intonation You may have learned at some point that questions have a rising intonation. They do, but usually a question will step upward until the very end, where it takes one quick little downward step. A question rises a li

美式英语正音训练第46期:Set Phrases & Story

Exercise 1-29: Making Set Phrases Pause the CD and add a noun to each word as indicated by the picture. Check Answer Key, beginning on page 193. Exercise 1-30: Set Phrase Story The Little Match Girl The following story contains only set phrases, as o

美式英语正音训练第47期:字群和断句

Word Groups and Phrasing Pauses for Related Thoughts, Ideas, or for Breathing By now you've begun developing a strong intonation, with clear peaks and reduced valleys, so you're ready for the next step. You may find yourself reading the paragraph in

美式英语正音训练第48期:带代词的称述语调

Statement Intonation with Pronouns When you replace the nouns with pronouns i e old information, stress the verb. They eat them. As we have seen, nouns are new information; pronouns are old information. In a nutshell, these are the two basic intonati

美式英语正音训练第49期:弱读&练习

Reduced Sounds The Down Side of Intonation Reduced sounds are all those extra sounds created by an absence of lip, tongue, jaw, and throat movement. They are a principal function of intonation and are truly indicative of the American sound. Exercise

美式英语正音训练第50期:神奇的技巧

The Miracle Technique Regaining Long-Lost Listening Skills The trouble with starting accent training after you know a great deal of English is that you know a great deal about English. You have a lot of preconceptions and, unfortunately, misconceptio

美式英语正音训练第52期:阶梯状语调

Staircase Intonation So what is intonation in American English? What do Americans do? We go up and down staircases. We start high and end low. Every time we want to stress a word or an idea, we just start a new staircase. That sounds simple enough, b

美式英语正音训练第54期:音节重音

Syllable Stress Syllable Count Intonation Patterns In spoken English, if you stress the wrong syllable, you can totally lose the meaning of a word: MA-sheen is hardly recognizable as ma-SHEEN or machine. At this point, we won't be concerned with why

美式英语正音训练第55期:美音语调

Chapter 1 American Intonation The American Speech Music What to Do with Your Mouth to Sound American One of the main differences between the way an American talks and the way the rest of the world talks is that we don't really move our lips. (So, whe

美式英语正音训练第56期:词的连读 Word Connections

Chapter 2 Word Connections As mentioned in the previous chapter, in American English, words are not pronounced one by one. Usually, the end of one word attaches to the beginning of the next word. This is also true for initials, numbers, and spelling.

美式英语正音训练第57期:连音规则

Liaison Rule 3: Vowel Vowel When a word ending in a vowel sound is next to one beginning with a vowel sound, they are connected with a glide between the two vowels. A glide is either a slight y sound or a slight w sound. How do you know which one to

美式英语正音训练第58期:练习1&2&3&4&5

Exercise 3-1 : Word-by-Word and in a Sentence that He said th't it's OK. than It's bigger th'n before as 'z soon'z he gets here... at Look' t the time! and ham'n eggs have Where h'v you been had He h'd been at home. can C'n you do it Exercise 3-2: Fi

美式英语正音训练第59期:美音中的T

Exercise 3-6: Reading the Sound When you read the following schwa paragraph, try clenching your teeth the first time. It won't sound completely natural, but it will get rid of all of the excess lip and jaw movement and force your tongue to work harde

美式英语正音训练第60期:练习4(4)

Exercise 4-4: Rule 2 Middle of the Staircase An unstressed T in the middle of a staircase between two vowel sounds should be pronounced as a soft D. Betty bought a bit of better butter. Pat ought to sit on a lap. Read the following sentences out loud

美式英语正音训练第51期:语法概述

Grammar in a Nutshell Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Grammar But Were Afraid to Use English is a chronological language. We just love to know when something happened, and this is indicated by the range and depth of our verb tenses. I had al

美式英语正音训练第61期:练习4(5)

Exercise 4-5: Rule 3 Bottom of the Staircase T at the bottom of a staircase is in the held position. 1. She hit the hot hut with her hat. 2. We went to that 'Net site to get what we needed. 3. Pat was quite right, wasn't she? 4. What? Put my hat back