English Pronunciation in Use

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The best-selling English Pronunciation in Use is a comprehensive reference and practice title suitable for self-study or classroom work. Sixty easy-to-use units cover all aspects of pronunciation, including individual sounds, word stress, connected speech and intonation. An additional reference section offers a glossary of specialized terms, help with the pronunciation of numbers and geographical names and fun exercises on phonemic symbols and minimal pairs. Versions of this title with audio CDs, and a CD-ROM for additional interactive practice, are available to purchase separately.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Notes to the student
• Notes to the teacher
• Map of contents described in phonological terms
• Section A Letters and sounds
• Unit 1 Bye, buy: introducing letters and sounds
• Unit 2 Plane, plan
• Unit 3 Back pack
• Unit 4 Rice, rise
• Unit 5 Down town
• Unit 6 Meet, met
• Unit 7 Carrot, cabbage
• Unit 8 Few, view
• Unit 9 Gate, Kate
• Unit 10 Hear, we're, year
• Unit 11 Wine, win
• Unit 12 Sheep, jeep, cheap
• Unit 13 Flies, fries
• Unit 14 Car, care
• Unit 15 Some, sun, sung
• Unit 16 Note, not
• Unit 17 Arthur's mother
• Unit 18 Sun, full, June
• Unit 19 Shirt, short
• Unit 20 Toy, town
• Section B Syllables, words and sentences
• Unit 21 Eye, my, mine: Introducing syllables
• Unit 22 Saturday September 13th: Introducing word stress
• Unit 23 Remember he told her: Introducing sentence stress
• Syllables
• Unit 24 Oh, no snow!: Consonants at the start of syllables
• Unit 25 Go - goal - gold: Consonants at the end of syllables
• Unit 26 Paul's calls, Max's faxes: Syllables:plural and other -s endings
• Unit 27 Pete played, Rita rested: Syllables:past tense endings
• Word stress
• Unit 28 REcord, reCORD: Stress in two-syllable words
• Unit 29 Second hand bookshop: Stress in compound words
• Unit 30 Unforgettable: Stress in longer words 1
• Unit 31 Public, publicity: Stress in longer words 2
• Sentence stress
• Unit 32 Don't look now!; Sentences with all the words stressed
• Unit 33 That could be the man: Unstressed words
• Unit 34 I'll ask her (Alaska) : Pronouns and contractions
• Unit 35 She was first: Pronouncing the verb be
• Unit 36 What do you think?: Auxiliary verbs
• Unit 37 A piece of cheese: Pronouncing short words (a, of, or)
• Unit 38 Pets enter, pet centre: Joining words 1
• Unit 39 After eight, after rate: Joining words 2
• Unit 40 Greet guests, Greek guests: Joining words 3
• Section C Conversation
• Unit 41 Could you say that again? Understanding conversation
• Unit 42 "was that the question?", he asked. Reading aloud: pronouncing punctuation
• Unit 43 A shirt and a tie/ a shirt and tie Grouping words
• Unit 44 Ehm
• Showing you want to continue
• Unit 45 Well, anyway
• Telling a story
• Unit 46 I mean, it's sort of like
• Understanding small talk
• Unit 47 Right, OK
• Understanding instructions
• Unit 48 "Like father like son" as they say Quoting speech
• Unit 49 He will win Introduction to emphatic stress
• Unit 50 Schwartz
• Pedro Schwartz Emphasizing added details
• Unit 51 I think you're in my seat Emphasizing important words
• Unit 52 Chips or salad Emphasizing contrasting alternatives
• Unit 53 Fifty? No, fifteen! Emphasizing corrections
• Unit 54 Look who's talking!: introducing tones
• Unit 55 Here? Yes, here! Asking and checking tones
• Unit 56 Where were you born? Tones in asking for information
• Unit 57 We're closed tomorrow Tones in new and old information
• Unit 58 Oh really? Continuing or finishing tones
• Unit 59 It's fun, isn't it? Agreeing or disagreeing tones
• Unit 60 It was brilliant! High tones
• Section D Reference
• D1 Introduction to phonemic symbols
• D2 Pronunciation test
• D3 Guide for speakers of specific languages
• D4 Sound pairs
• D5 Sentence stress phrasebook
• D6 Glossary
• Answer key