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DAVID GREENE, HOST: Noel, I've got a kind of funny way to introduce our next guests. NOEL KING, HOST: OK. GREENE: The category is game show host. KING: Game show host. GREENE: Do you want to buy a vowel? (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, WHEEL OF FORTUNE) UNIDE
Exercise 1-40: Intonation in Your Own Sentence CD 2 Track 9 On the first of the numbered lines below, write a three-word sentence that you frequently use, suchas Computers organize information or Lawyers sign contract s and put it through the 25chang
Chapter 8. More Reduced Sounds CD 4 Track14 There are two sounds that look similar, but sound quite different. One is the tense vowel [u],pronounced ooh, and the other is the soft vowel [], whose pronunciation is a combination of ihand uh. The [u] so
Exercise 2-4: Consonant / Vowel Liaiso n Practice CD 2 Track 39 Pause the CD and reconnect the following words. On personal pronouns, it is common to drop theH. See Answer Key, beginning on page 193. Repeat. 图片1 图片2
No one knows when Vesuvius may do the same thing again, but the people in Naples never seem to think of such a thing; 没有人知道维苏威火山会在哪一天再次制造这样的悲剧,但是那不勒斯人似乎从不考虑这件事, they
Republicans Face Tough Job Winning Hispanic Votes The Republican convention's host city of Tampa is home to a well-established Hispanic community, with Cuban cigar shops and restaurants that attract delegates and even a U.S. senator. They may enjoy t
Exercise 1-52; Reducing Articles CD 2 Track 25 图片1 When you used the rubber band with [Dg zeet bounz] and when you built your own sentence,you saw that intonation reduces the unstressed words. Intonation is the peak and reduced soundsare the vall
Reduced Sounds CD 2 Track 24 The Down Side of Intonation Reduced sounds are all those extra sounds created by an absence of lip, tongue, jaw, and throatmovement. They are a principal function of intonation and are truly indicative of the Americansoun
Exercise 1-48; Regular Transitions of Adjectives and Verbs CD 2 Track 17 Mark the intonation or indicate the long vowel on the italicized word, depending which part ofspeech it is. Pause the CD and mark the proper syllables. See Answer Key, beginning
Exercise 2-1 : Spelling an d Pronunciation CD 2 Track 36 Read the following sentences. The last two sentences should be pronounced exactly the same, nomatter how they are written. It is the sound that is important, not the spelling. The dime. The dim
Exercise 4-11 : Voiced and Unvoiced Sounds with T This exercise is for the practice ofthe difference between words that end in either a vowel or avoiced consonant, which means thatthe vowel is lengthened or doubled. Therefore, these words areon a muc
Chapter 5. The El CD 3 Track 25 This chapter discusses the sound ofL (not to be confused with that of the American R, which iscovered in the next chapter). We'll approach this sound first,by touching on the difficulties itpresents to foreign speakers
Exercise 6-2 : Double Vowel with R CD 3 Track 44 Refer to the subsequent lists of sounds and words as you work through each of the directions thatfollow them. Repeat each sound, first the vowel and then the [ər], and each word in columns 1 to 3. We
Exercise 11-3: Lax Vowels CD 4 Track 40 As we saw in Chapter 8, these are the lax vowels. 图片1
Exercise 8-9: How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck? CD 4 Track 23 How fast can you say: 图片1 In the following two exercises, we will practice the two vowel sounds separately.
Exercise 8-5: Tense and Lax Vowel Exercise CD 4Track 19 Let's practice tense and lax vowels in context. The intonation is marked for you. When in doubt, tryto leave out the lax vowel rather than run the risk of overpronouncing it: l'p in place of lip
Exercise 8-3; Bit or Beat? CD 4 Track 17 We've discussed intonation in terms of new information, contrast, opinion, and negatives. As youheard on p. 3, Americans tend to stretch out certain one-syllable words ... but which ones? Theanswer is simplewh
Exercise 11-9: Your Compound Nouns and Complex Verbs CD 4 Track 46 Using your compound nouns from Ex. 11-8, choose a verb and putit through all the changes.Remember that it helps to have a verb that startswith a vowel. Add explanatory words to round
AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: our guest is writer Michael Erard, author of a new book called Um...MICHAEL ERARD: People who have studied speech patterns notice that there are really two groups of people: one g
Disneyland; government property seizures and auctions; state; on the prowl; pronouncing the vowel i and the vowel combinations ee and ea; time after time Words: theme park ride fantasy frontier to seize property tied to to make way for auction bid su