Introduction Part 1. Background:A What is pronunciation?
B Key issues in pronunciation teaching and learning
Part 2.Activities:1 Developing awareness of English pronunciation:1.1 Introducing features of pronunciation,1.2 Getting you thinking: A pronunciation questionnaire,1.3 Making vowel sounds,1.4 Consonant clusters: English and L1 differences,1.5 Comparing slow and quick speech,1.6 Sounding English,1.7 Pronouncing names in English,1.8 Pronouncing places, products and planets,1.9 Impersonations,1.10 Intonation in print
2 Sounds: vowels, consonants and consonant clusters:A Vowels:2.1 Matching vowel sounds: A family tree,2.2 Finding words including the same vowel sound: Word routes,2.3 Hearing and saying differences between vowels and between consonants: Minimal pairs,2.4 Communicating with single vowel sounds,2.5 Classifying words according to their first vowel
B Consonants:2.6 Who lives where? Minimal pair names, 2.7 Lip-reading, 2.8 Classifying words according to their first consonant,2.9 Getting rid of unwanted vowels C Consonants clusters,2.10 Word chains, 2.11 Definitions quiz,2.12 Consonant cluster towers
3 Connected speech:A Links between words: 3.1 Matching adjectives and nouns: consonant to vowel links,3.2 Changing sounds: consonant to consonant links,3.3 Predict the linking sounds: vowels linked with /j/ ("y") and /w/,3.4 Matching opposites and words that go together: vowels linked with /r/
B Contracted forms:3.5 Dialogues,3.6 Talking about families,3.7 Comparing speech and writing
C Weak and strong forms of grammar words,3.8 Comparing weak and strong forms,3.9 Predicting weak and strong forms,3.10 Listening to weak forms
D Leaving out sounds:3.11 Leaving out consonants: /t/ and /d/ in clusters,3.12 Leaving out vowels in words
4 Syllables, word stress, and stress in phrases:A Syllables:4.1 How many syllables?, 4.2 The same or different number of syllables?,4.3 Eliminating words
B Word stress:4.4 Demonstrating syllable length,4.5 Matching words with their stress patterns,4.6 Group the words,4.7 Country names,4.8 At the supermarket, 4.9 Stress patterns in "-ty" and "-teen" numbers (1): Bingo,4.10 Stress patterns in "-ty" and "-teen" numbers (2): Talking about accommodation,4.11 Stress in noun - verb pair,4.12 Rules of word stress in two-syllable nouns, adjectives and verbs
C Stress and word formation:4.13 Rules of word stress: prefixes and suffixes,4.14 Suffixes and word stress: words ending -ian, 4.15 Suffixes and word stress: words ending -ic and -ical,4.16 Stress in phrasal verbs and related nouns,4. 17 Rules of stress in compound nouns
D Stress in phrases:4.18 Same or different stress patterns?,4.19 Find your partners,4.20 Stress shift in nationality words, 4.21 Stress shift in compounds
5 Intonation A Prominence: highlighting words and syllables: 5.1 Introducing prominent and non-prominent words: James Bond,5.2 Hearing and saying prominent words: They"re on the table,5.3 Prominence contrasts within words: stalactites and stalagmites
B Tone units and tonic placement:5.4 Dividing speech into tone units, 5.5 Tonic word placement: At ten to seven, or ten to eight?
C Tones:5.6 Choosing tones: Fall or rise?,5.7 Tone choice in questions,5.8 Falling and falling-rising tones: Reservation, 5.9 "News" and "not news": correcting
6 Pronunciation and other parts of language: spelling, grammar and vocabulary:A Pronunciation and spelling:6.1 Grouping English alphabet letters,6.2 Pronouncing single vowel letters (1),6.3 Pronouncing single vowel letters (2),6.4 Pronouncing pairs of vowel letters: OU, OA, OE, OI, OO,6.5 Pronouncing consonant letters: C and G,6.6 Pronouncing consonant pairs: PH, CH, SH, and GH,6.7 Homographs: a row about rowing?
B Pronunciation and grammar:6.8 Pronouncing -s in plurals, verbs and possessives,6.9 Pronouncing -ed in past tense verbs:C Pronunciation and vocabulary,6.10 Classifying words,6.11 Odd one out, 6.12 Problem pronunciations
7 Testing pronunciation:7.1 General evaluation of pronunciation,7.