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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.
You can choose to listen to a female or a male voice.
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: Presents all the vowel sounds and consonant sounds in English.
Shows the sounds in words, in different positions in words and in sentences.
Title: Pronunciation Lessons
Units/pgs: Lesson 2: Syllables and word stress; Lesson 3: Weak syllables;
Lesson 4: The rhythm of English; Lesson 5: Syllable structure in English and
Chinese; Lesson 8: Sentence Stress; Lesson 14: Sentence stress and intonation to
convey a writer’s message; Lesson 15: Making keywords stand out; Lesson 16:
Using sentence stress to contradict or correct; Practice 16 and 17: Stress
Type: Web
Accent: UK
Features: Gives a brief explanation and exercises to practise with. Click the
‘Key’ button for feedback.
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Title: In Tempo
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Units/pgs: Unit 5: 69-84; Unit 7: 99-116; Unit 9: 141-154; Unit 13: 185-187
Type: Book + Cassette
Area A: Pronunciation Shelf
Accent: Australian
Features: Explains about stressed and unstressed words and the main
information focus in a sentence, and gives practice in listening to and speaking
short conversations. Answer key at the back.
Before you start the exercises, it’s a good idea to read the INTRODUCTIONS on
pages 69-70 and page 85. Unit 13 (pp.185-7) gives good ideas on how to practise
and improve your pronunciation.
Doing Units 5, 7 and 9 will give you a good sense of how ‘information’ words
and ‘grammar’ words are stressed differently in English.
Title: Better English Pronunciation
Units/pgs: 90-91
Type: Book + Cassette
Accent: UK
Features: If you can read phonetic symbols, this book will be useful. It explains
how ‘picture’ and ‘grammar’ words are stressed differently. There are no
practice tasks but there is detailed explanation.
Title: Sound Advantage
Units/pgs: Unit 1: 1-14; Unit 8: 111-125; Unit 9:126-136
Type: Book + Cassette
Accent: US
Features: Explains and gives practice examples of syllable recognition, sentence
stress and information focus. It provides both listening and speaking practice.
There’s a useful section at the end of each unit for speaking on your own, which
includes paragraph reading and giving a short presentation. Answer key at the
back.
Title: Targeting Pronunciation
Units/pgs: Unit 2: 22-41; Unit 3: 48-50; Unit 4: 59-80
Type: Book + Cassette
Accent: US
Features: Explains and provides listening and speaking practice. Includes
poems, songs, dialogues and role-plays. Provides useful tips and strategies and
an ‘On Your Own’ section at the end of each unit, which suggests ways of
practising and evaluating your progress. Answers in the Instructor’s Resource
Manual.
Title: Speaking Clearly
Units/pgs: Unit 1: 4-9; Unit 2: 10-14; Unit 3: 5-16; Unit 4: 17-20; Unit 6: 28-30
Type: Book + Cassette
Accent: UK
Features: Provides listening and speaking practice and brief explanations. Use
the ‘Check your progress’ tasks at the end of each unit so that you can easily see
your progress and improvement. Answers are in the Teacher’s Book.
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Title: Phrase by Phrase
Units/pgs: 37, 39, 41, 49, 50, 80-82, 100-101, 104, 113, 126, 134-138, 147
Type: Book + Cassette + Video
Accent: US
Features: Going through the pages mentioned above, you can get good practice
in stressing content words and unstressing function words. You can practise
reading out the whole passage ‘phrase by phrase’ in the ‘Sounds in Context’
section. This book gives explanations and practice exercises for listening and
speaking. Answers are in the Instructor’s Manual.
Tip: If you practise each ‘Sounds in Context: Phrase by Phrase’ passage several
times (e.g. page 82, pages104-6, pages136-8) you can gradually build up from
saying short phrases to saying whole sentences and you’ll be ready to try the ‘On
your own’ section at the end of the unit.
Title: Sound Advice
Units/pgs: Unit 1: 4-12; Unit 8: 84-98; Unit 11: 129-138
Type: Book + Cassette
Accent: US
Features: Focuses on hearing syllables, word and sentence stress. Answers in
the Instructor’s Manual.
Title: Sound Advice (Second Edition)
Units/pgs: Unit 1: 3-14; Unit 6: 59-68; Unit 11: 115-120
Type: Book + Cassette
Accent: US
Features: Focuses on hearing syllables, word and sentence stress. There is a
‘Chapter Review’ and a ‘Test Yourself’ section at the end of each Unit. This is
very useful for helping you keep track of your progress. Answers are in the back
of the book.
Title: Elements of Pronunciation
Units/pgs: 76-95
Type: Book + Cassette
Accent: UK
Features: This book has lots of funny conversations. You can listen to the
dialogues and see where the syllable, word and sentence stress are and practise
your speaking by repeating the dialogues.
Title: Pronunciation Tasks
Units/pgs: Units 27-34: 38-48; Units 43-45: 59-62
Type: Book + Cassette
Accent: UK
Features: Provides explanation with a variety of examples to practise hearing
syllables, word stress and sentence stress. You can check your answers in the
key at the back of the book.
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Title: Test Your Pronunciation
Units/pgs: Units 9-18, 20-22, 29, 40-41, 43
Type: Book + Audio CD
Accent: UK
Features: You can use this book and audio CD to test yourself on syllables,
word stress and sentence stress. There are brief explanations and tips at the
bottom of each short test. Answers are in the back of the book
Title: Pronunciation for Advanced Learners of English
Units/pgs: All
Type: Book + Cassette
Accent: UK
Features: This book shows how sentences can be cut up into units and
highlights where the syllables or words in the sentence are stressed using
CAPital letters. It contains many useful exercises both for listening and for
speaking. Answers are in the Answer Key at the back of the book and further
explanation for exercises and ways to practise can be found in the Teacher’s
book.
Title: Intonation in Context
Units/pgs: All
Type: Book + Cassette
Accent: UK
Features: This book shows how meanings change depending on where stress is
used in sentences. Example sentences are shown with highlights (in CAPital
letters) where the syllables or words in the sentence are stressed. It contains
many useful exercises both for listening and for speaking. Answers and further
explanation for exercises and ways to practise can be found in the Teacher’s
book.
Title: Connected Speech (British English)
Units/pgs: Stress – Level 1: Mark and Record, Content Words, Information
Words, Tutorial. Level 2: Mark and Record, Structure Words, Correction,
Tutorial. Level 3: Mark and Record, Contrasting Content and Focus, Tutorial.
Pause Groups – Level 1: Mark and Record, Listen for pauses, Predict pauses,
Tutorial. Level 2: Mark and Record, Count and Identify, Number groups,
Tutorial. Level 3: Mark and Record, Grouping numbers, Punctuation, Tutorial.
Type: CD-ROM
Accent: UK
Features: Explains stress and pause groups through tutorials and provides
listening exercises based on short video clips with text so that you can raise your
awareness of why we use stress and how to use it. There are lots of practice
exercises to choose from and you can easily get feedback on your answers by
clicking the ‘feedback ball’. Once you have finished a section, you can take a
test using the test function so that you can easily evaluate your progress. You can
also practise your pronunciation using the record function. You can record your
own version and then immediately compare it with the computer version.
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Pronunciation)
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Disk.)
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Title: Connected Speech (North American English)
Units/pgs: Stress – Level 1: Mark and Record, Content Words, Information
Words, Tutorial. Level 2: Mark and Record, Structure Words, Correction,
Tutorial. Level 3: Mark and Record, Contrasting Content and Focus, Tutorial.
Pause Groups – Level 1: Mark and Record, Listen for pauses, Predict pauses,
Tutorial. Level 2: Mark and Record, Count and Identify, Number groups,
Tutorial. Level 3: Mark and Record, Grouping numbers, Punctuation, Tutorial.
Type: CD-ROM
Accent: US
Features: Explains stress and pause groups through tutorials and provides
listening exercises based on short video clips with text so that you can raise your
awareness of why we use stress and how to use it. There are lots of practice
exercises to choose from and you can easily get feedback on your answers by
clicking the ‘feedback ball’. Once you have finished a section, you can take a
test using the test function so that you can easily evaluate your progress. You can
also practise your pronunciation using the record function. You can record your
own version and then immediately compare it with the computer version.
© Copyright 2009 Language Centre of HKUST. All rights reserved.
HKUST SAC
Orientation Area A: CDROM Shelf (English
Pronunciation)
(Hand in your Student ID at
Reception and ask for the
Disk.)
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