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Pronunciation Practice Activities A resource book for teaching English pronunciation Martin Hewings CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Contents Acknowledgements x Introduction i Atms i Organisation i What is pronunciation? 3 Key issues in pronunciation teaching and learning io Activities 23 1 Developing awareness of English pronunciation 23 1.1 Introducing features of pronunciation 23 1.2 Gettingyou thinking: a pronunciation questionnaire 25 1.3 Making vowel sounds 2,7 1.4 Consonant clusters: English and first language differences 23 1.5 Comparing slow and quick speech 30 1.6 Sounding English 31 1.7 Pronouncing names in English 33 1.8 Pronouncing places, products and planets 34 1.9 Impersonations 36 1.10 Intonation in print 38 2 Sounds: vowels, consonants and consonant clusters 42 Vowels: correcting particular vowels 42 2.1 Matching vowel sounds: a family tree 44 2.2 Finding words including the same vowel sound; word routes 48 2.3 Hearing and saying differences between vowels and between consonants: minimal pairs 51 2.4 Communicating with single vowel sounds 5 8 2.5 Classifying words according to their first vowel 61 v
Contents Consonants: correcting particular consonants 63 2.6 Who lives where? Minimal pair names 65 2.7 Lip-reading 68 2.8 Classifying words according to their first consonant 69 2.9 Getting rid of unwanted vowels 71 Consonant clusters 73 2.10 Word chains 73 2.11 Definitions quiz 74 2.12 Consonant cluster towers 77 3 Connected speech 751 Links between words 79 3.1 Matching adjectives and nouns: consonant to vowel links 79 3.2 Changing sounds: consonant to consonant links 80 3.3 Predict the linking sounds: vowels linked with/j/ (y) and /w/ 82 3.4 Matching opposites and words that go together: vowels linkedwith/r/ 85 Contracted forms 87 3.5 Dialogues 87 3.6 Talking about families 89 3.7 Comparing speech and writing 91 Weak and strong forms of grammar words 94 3.8 Comparing weak and strong forms 94 3.9 Predicting weak and strong forms 96 3.10 Listening to weak forms 9 8 Leaving out sounds 99 3.11 Leaving out consonants: It/ and/d/in clusters 99 3.12 Leaving out vowels in words 101 4 Syllables, word stress and stress in phrases 103 Syllables 103 4.1 How many syllables? 103 4.2 The same or different number of syllables? 104 4.3 Eliminating words 105 VI
Contents Word stress 106 4.4 Demonstrating syllable length 106 4.5 Matching words with their stress patterns 107 4.6 Group the words 108 4.7 Country names 109 4.8 At the supermarket rn 4.9 Stress patterns in -ty and -teen numbers (1): Bingo 113 4.TO Stress patterns in -ty and -teen numbers (2): talking about accommodation 115 4,TT Stress in noun-verb pairs TT8 4.12 Rules of word stress in two-syllable nouns, adjectives and verbs 120 Stress and word formation 122 4.73 Rules of word stress: prefixes and suffixes 122 4.14 Suffixes and word stress: words ending -ian 124 4.15 Suffixes and word stress: words ending -ic and -teal ixy 4.T6 Stress in phrasal verbs and related nouns T29 4. yj Rules of stress in compound nouns 131 Stress in phrases 132 4.18 Same or different stress patterns? T32 4.19 Find your partners 134 4.20 Stress shift in nationality words 137 4.21 Stress shift in compounds 139 5 Intonation 142 Prominence: highlighting words and syllables 142 5.T Introducing prominent and non-prominent words: 'James Bond' 142 5.2 Hearing and saying prominent words: 'They're on the table' 144 5.3 Prominence contrasts within words: stalactites and stalagmites T47 Tone units and tonic placement 151 5.4 Dividing speech into tone units 151 5.5 Tonic word placement: 'At ten to seven, or ten to eight?' T53 vii