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Title: In Tempo
Units/pgs: Unit 1: 5-6, 8, Unit 2: 15, Unit 5: 50, Unit 9: 93, Unit 14: 147, Unit
15: 157, Unit 16:169
Type: Book + Cassette
Accent: US
Features: Explains syllables in detail and a variety of contexts. Contains lots of exercises to help you identify and pronounce syllables in short conversations.
Answers are in the Instructor’s Manual
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Title: In Tempo
Units/pgs: Unit 2: 21-23
Type: Book + Cassette
Accent: Australian
Features: Provides an explanation of what syllables are and how to recognise them. Also provides 2 listening exercises. Answers are in the back of the book
Title: Speaking Clearly
Units/pgs: Unit 1: 7-10
Type: Book + Cassette
Accent:
Features: Gives a brief explanation together with a number of listening and speaking exercises. Answers are in the Teacher’s Book.
Title: Pronunciation Advice Sheet
Units/pgs: P5: Recognising Phonetic Symbols
Type: Web
Accent: UK
Features: . Shows letters of the alphabet and their IPA sound symbol. Also shows commonly used words and how they are represented using IPA sound symbols.
Title: Pronunciation Advice Sheet
Units/pgs: P5: Recognising Phonetic Symbols
Type: Sheet / Cassette / CD-ROM
Accent: UK
Features: Shows letters of the alphabet and their IPA sound symbol. Also shows commonly used words and how they are represented using IPA sound symbols.
You can choose to listen to a female or a male voice.
Title: Pronouncing English Phonetic Symbols
Units/pgs: All
Type: Book + Cassette
Accent: UK
Features: This will help you practice the different sounds that make up syllables. Presents all the vowel sounds and consonant sounds in English. Shows the sounds in words, in different positions in words and in sentences.
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Title: Pronunciation Tasks
Units/pgs: Units 27: 38, Unit 31:43
Type: Book + Cassette
Accent: UK
Features: Each unit gives practise for listening to syllables and saying them.
You can check your answers in the Teacher’s book.
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Title: Headway Pre-Intermediate Pronunciation
Units/pgs:
Type:
Unit 2 pg 5, Unit 4 pg 35, Unit 15 pg 46
Book + Cassette
Accent: UK
Features: These units explain how to identify syllables and give exercises for you to practise with. Check your answers in the back of the book.
Title: Sound Advantage
Units/pgs: Unit 1: 1-15
Type: Book + Cassette
Accent: US
Features: Explains how to recognise syllables and provides listening and speaking exercises. Answers are in the Instructor’s Manual.
Title: English Pronunciation in Use
Units/pgs: Units 1-20, 21-27,
Type: Book + Cassette + Audio CD
Accent: UK
Features: Section A (units 1-20) introduces letters and sounds using a variety of interesting exercises. Look through the ‘Contents’ pages to find exercises on
Vowel sounds and Consonant sounds that will help you practice the different sounds that make up syllables. Section B (units 21-27) covers syllables in detail.
It gives explanation and lots of exercises. Answers are in the Key at the back of the book.
Title: Pronunciation Lessons
Units/pgs: Lessons 2-3, 5
Type: Web
Accent: UK
Features: This site shows how to identify syllables (Syllables in English Words,
Weak Syllables and Syllable Strructrure in English and Chinese). To hear the sounds files, click on the “play” symbol.
Title: IPA Chart
Units/pgs: N/A
Type: Web
Accent: US
Features: Here you can see the sounds of English as they are represented using
IPA. You can also click on the sound and listen to how it is pronounced.
Title: IPA Typewriter
Units/pgs: N/A
Type: Web
Accent: N/A
Features: If you want to practice writing using IPA sound symbols, you can use this special typewriter. Follow the instructions on the page.
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BBC Skillswise - Syllables
Web http://lc.ust.hk/~sac/advice/english/pronunciation/P3.htm http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillsw ise/words/spelling/soundands pell/syllables/index.shtml
Accent: UK
Features: This site contains four different areas to help you develop your knowledge of syllables. The factsheet contains useful information about syllables, the quiz and the game can help you test your knowledge, and the worksheet gives you some paper-based activities to help you learn about syllables. You can print the factsheet and the worksheet.
Title: Quia
Units/pgs:
Phonological Awareness – Syllables Pop-Up Counting Quiz
All http://www.quia.com/pop/59
09.html
Type: Web
Accent: N/A
Features: In this quiz you have to say how many syllables are in each word.
When you have finished you are told how many of your answers were correct and how many incorrect.
Title:
Units/pgs:
Type:
Using English.com Quiz – How Many Syllables?
Web
All
Accent: N/A http://www.usingenglish.com
/quizzes/252.html
Features: In this quiz you have to say how many syllables are in each word.
When you have finished you are told how many of your answers were correct and how many incorrect and you are shown your incorrect answers.
Title: English.com Syllables
Units/pgs: All
Type: Web
Accent: N/A
Features: This is a clear explanation in easy-to-understand English to help you understand about syllables.
http://www.englishclub.com/ pronunciation/word-stress-
1.htm
Title: Simple English Wikipedia - Syllable
Units/pgs: All
Type: Web
Accent: N/A
Features: This is a clear explanation in easy-to-understand English from
‘Simple English Wikipedia’ to help you understand about syllables.
http://simple.wikipedia.org/w iki/Syllable
Title:
Type:
How Language Works: Word Forms: Units: Syllables
Units/pgs:
Web
All
Accent: N/A http://www.indiana.edu/~hlw
/PhonUnits/syllables.html
Features: This is an in-depth explanation of syllables from Indiana University.
It is quite long and a little difficult to understand, but if you are interested in gaining a more scientific understanding of syllables you will find it interesting.
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