Synopses & Reviews
Sound Bites provides balanced listening and speaking practice with guided exercises to help students from all language backgrounds improve their pronunciation.
Synopsis
This low-intermediate pronunciation text provides balanced listening and speaking practice with guided exercises to help students from all language backgrounds improve their pronunciation. Throughout the text, students focus on the vowel and consonant sounds they confuse most often and practice stress, intonation, and the rhythm of English. Concise, balanced coverage of segmentals and suprasegmentals provides students with complete lessons. Balanced listening and speaking practice helps make class work relevant and improve students' language production.A comprehensive web site helps instructors and students to enhance the class with technology and includes additional practice, assessment tests, and teaching tools.Assessment tools help instructors apply the best methods of listening discrimination and pronunciation.
Table of Contents
Part One: Stress and Rhythm Part Two: Intonation Part Three: Vowels Part Four: Consonants Part Five: Putting Sounds Together