Synopses & Reviews
\[I\]Pronunciation Pairs\[/I\] is designed to teach students to recognize and produce the sounds of American English, providing practice with individual sounds, word stress, intonation, and sound-spelling relationships. This comprehensive course covers the most common problem areas in pronunciation, using minimal pairs, dialogs, games, and listening and speaking exercises. The book contains a wealth of amusing illustrations to help students understand the words used and to make the practice more interesting.\[P\]\[P\]The Teacher's Manual contains extensive teaching suggestions and ideas for further practice. A set of four cassettes can be used in class or by students working individually.\[P\]\[P\]\'[This book] has excellent illustrations that relate well to the work in each unit. It presents the material in a nonthreatening, nontechnical way that makes the content clear for both students and teachers. It is a versatile text that can be used by itself or as supplemental material . . . makes it clear that pronunciation is not an end in itself, and overall provides teachers with a useful resource for teaching pronunciation as a part of communication.\' - TESOL Quarterly
Synopsis
A classic listening and pronunciation text teaching students to recognize and produce all of the speech sounds of North American English.
Synopsis
Pronunciation Pairs is a classic listening and pronunciation text that teaches students to recognize and produce the speech sounds of North American English. It also covers important features such as word and sentence stress, and intonation.