Exercise 1-32: Two-Word Stress CD 1 Track 45 Repeat the following pairs. Descriptive Phrase Set Phrase a light bulb a light bulb blue pants blue jeans a cold fish a gold fish a gray hound a greyhound an old key an inn key a white house The White Hou

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Exercise 1-31: Contrasting Descriptive and Set Phrases CD 1 Track 44 Repeat after me. scriptive Phrase Set Phrase 1. It's a short nail. It's a finger nail. 2. It's a chocolate cake. It's a pan cake. 3. It's a hot bath. It's a hot tub. 4. It's a long

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Exercise 1 -26: Two Types of Descriptive Phrases CD 1 Track 38 Repeat. Adjective Noun Adverb Adjective 1. It's a short nail. It's really short. 2. It's a chocolate cake. It's dark chocolate. 3. It's a hot bath. It's too hot. 4. It's a hard drive. It

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Exercise 1-21: Squeezed-Out Syllables CD 1 Track 30 Intonation can also completely get rid of certain entire syllables. Some longer words that are stressed on the first syllable squeeze weak syllables right out. Cover up the regular columns and read

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Exercise 1-22: Syllable Patterns CD 1 Track 32 In order to practice accurate pitch change, repeat the following column. Each syllable will count as one musical note. Remember that words that end in a vowel or a voiced consonant will be longer than o

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Exercise 1-19: Spelling and Numbers CD 1 Track 28 Just as there is stress in words or phrases, there is intonation in spelling and numbers. Americans seem to spell things out much more than other people. In any bureaucratic situation, you'll be aske

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Exercise 1-20; Sound/Meaning Shifts CD 1 Track 29 Intonation is powerful. It can change meaning and pronunciation. Here you will get the chance to play with the sounds. Remember, in the beginning, the meaning isn't that importantjust work on getting

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Exercise 1-11: Translation CD 1 Track 18 Take the sentence I didn't say he stole the money and translate it into your native language. Write it down below, using whatever letters or characters you use in your language. ______________________________

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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,

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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,

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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,

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BBC news with Marian Marshall. Italys Highest Court has upheld the 16-years jail sentence imposed on the cruise ship captain, Francesco Schettino. The decision put Schettino behind bars more than 5 years after he steered the Costa Concordia onto rock

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AS IT IS 2015-10-18 Sierra Leone Faces Child Marriage Issue 塞拉利昂等多国欲解决童婚问题 The organization Girls Not Brides is a partnership of more than 500 civil society groups from over 70 countries. They are working together to end c

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托福听力技巧:听力中口音的巧妙处理 托福听力中如果遇到非美口音怎么办?近期ETS推出了新的政策,在听力和口语的部分中加入了英国、澳大利亚以及新西兰的口音,并且是立即实行。在3月

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White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough on Sunday dismissed accusations that the Obama administration is waffling over whether the United States is indeed at war with Islamic State, saying the administration has been very clear about the military

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WASHINGTON, May 19 (Xinhua) -- U.S. troops will take part in a multinational military exercise in Jordan next week in a bid to demonstrate the U.S. commitment to security and stability in the region, the Pentagon said Monday. About 6,000 U.S. troops,

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Samsung Electronics on Saturday urged consumers to stop using Galaxy Note 7 smartphones immediately and exchange them as soon as possible, as more reports of the phones catching fire emerged even after the company's global recall. 因全球召回之后

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传统看法认为好的口音只是锦上添花,最重要的是逻辑清晰明确。我却认为良好的语音语调亦不容忽视。如果说前者认为语音和逻辑重要性之比是1:9,至少是4:6。大家都知道,托福口语考试

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It is such a good.You were good,you were good in it. 好棒 你配得很棒 Thank you.You were very good.I had a lot of fun.Your voice is okay. 谢谢 你表现得很棒 我配的额很开心 你的声音还行 Thank you,probably my weakest feature b

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