Unit One English Phonemes 1
Exercise 1 Getting familiar with English phonemes 1
Exercise 2 English phonemes in words 3
Exercise 3 Homophones 4
Exercise 4 English phonemes in phrases 4
Exercise 5 Relaxation 5
Unit Two Sound Recognition Vowels Ⅰ 7
Exercise 1 Distinguishing confusing sounds:/？/,/i/,/e/and/？/ 8
Exercise 2 Dictation 8
Exercise 3 Distinguishing confusing sounds in groups of words 9
Exercise 4 Identifying a word in the context of a sentence 9
Exercise 5 Distinguishing confusing sounds:/？/,/u/,/？/and/？/ 10
Exercise 6 Dictation 10
Exercise 7 Distinguishing confusing sounds in groups of words 11
Exercise 8 Identifying confusing words in the underlined words 11
Exercise 9 Distinguishing teens from tens 12
Exercise 10 Relaxation 13
Unit Three Sound Recognition Vowels Ⅱ 17
Exercise 1 Distinguishing confusing sounds:/？/？/,/e/and/ei/ 17
Exercise 2 Dictation 17
Exercise 3 Distinguishing confusing sounds in pairs of words 18
Exercise 4 Identifying a word in the context of a sentence 18
Exercise 5 Distinguishing confusing sounds:/？/,/ai/,/？/and/？/ 19
Exercise 6 Dictation 19
Exercise 7 Identifying a word in the context of a sentence 20
Exercise 8 Identifying confusing sounds in the underlined word 20
Exercise 9 Identifying ordinal numbers 21
Exercise 10 Relaxation 22
Unit Four Sound Recognition Consonants Ⅰ 25
Exercise 1 Distinguishing confusing sounds:/s/,/？/,/？/and/t？/ 25
Exercise 2 Dictation 26
Exercise 3 Distinguishing confusing sounds in groups of words 26
Exercise 4 Identifying a word in the context of a sentence 27
Exercise 5 Distinguishing confusing sounds:/f/,/v/,/s/and/z/ 28
Exercise 6 Dictation 28
Exercise 7 Distinguishing confusing sounds in pairs of words 29
Exercise 8 Identifying a word in the context of a sentence 29
Exercise 9 Years and Dates 30
Exercise 10 Relaxation 31
Unit Five Sound Recognition Consonants Ⅱ 34
Exercise 1 Distinguishing confusing sounds:/v/,/w/,/l/and/n/ 34
Exercise 2 Dictation 34
Exercise 3 Distinguishing confusing sounds in pairs of words 35
Exercise 4 Identifying a word in the context of a sentence 35
Exercise 5 Distinguishing confusing sounds:/n/,/？/d/and/？/ 36
Exercise 6 Dictation 36
Exercise 7 Identifying a word in the context of a sentence 37
Exercise 8 Identifying the words containing:/d/or/？/ 37
Exercise 9 Telephone Numbers 38
Exercise 10 Relaxation 39
Quiz Unit 1-Unit 5 42
Unit Six Consonant Clusters 45
Exercise 1 lnitial clusters imitation 45
Exercise 2 Hunting initial clusters 46
Exercise 3 Medial clusters imitation 47
Exercise 4 Final clusters imitation 48
Exercise 5 Hunting final clusters 48
Exercise 6 Matching definition 49
Exercise 7 Passage understanding 50
Exercise 8 Relaxation 51
Unit Seven Strong and Weak Forms 53
Exercise 1 Sentence dictation 54
Exercise 2 The weak form of determiners 54
Exercise 3 Dictation for verb forms 55
Exercise 4 The weak form of special verbs 55
Exercise 5 The weak form of pronouns 56
Exercise 6 The weak form of conjunctions and prepositions 56
Exercise 7 Testing your ears 57
Exercise 8 Relaxation 58
Unit Eight Incomplete Plosion 63
Exercise 1 Imitating incomplete plosives 64
Exercise 2 Sharpening up your ears 64
Exercise 3 Getting acquainted with incomplete plosives(Plosive+Fricative/Affricate) 65
Exercise 4 Taking a dictation of phrases 65
Exercise 5 Getting familiarized with incomplete plosives(Plosive+Nasal/Lateral) 66
Exercise 6 Taking a dictation of words and expressions 66
Exercise 7 Testing your ears 67
Exercise 8 Relaxation 67
Unit Nine Assimilation andElision 70
Exercise 1 Historical assimilation Ⅰ 71
Exercise 2 Historical assimilation Ⅱ(Coalescent assimilation) 71
Exercise 3 Contextual assimilation 72
Exercise 4 Sentence dictation 73
Exercise 5 Sharpening up your ears 73
Exercise 6 Spotting differences 74
Exercise 7 Dictation for elision 75
Exercise 8 Spotting silent-letters 75
Exercise 9 Relaxation 76
Unit Ten Liaison 80
Exercise 1 Taking a dictation of sentences 81
Exercise 2 Linking final consonant with initial vowels 81
Exercise 3 Imitating"r"liaison 82
Exercise 4 Sharpening up your ears 83
Exercise 5 Linking final vowels with initial vowel sounds 83
Exercise 6 Spotting liaison 84
Exercise 7 Testing your ears 84
Exercise 8 Getting acquainted with liaison 85
Exercise 9 Relaxation 86
Quiz Unit 6-Unit 10 88
Unit Eleven Sense Groups and Pausing 92
Exercise 1 Marking pauses in sentences 92
Exercise 2 Marking pauses in a passage 93
Exercise 3 Punctuating a proverb 94
Exercise 4 Spotting pauses 95
Exercise 5 Pauses and imitation 95
Exercise 6 Passage understanding 96
Exercise 7 Relaxation 97
Unit Twelve Word Stress and Sentence Stress 100
Exercise 1 Marking the stressed syllables 102
Exercise 2 Identifying differences 103
Exercise 3 Marking the stressed words 104
Exercise 4 Marking the stressed words in a poem 105
Exercise 5 Poem appreciation 106
Exercise 6 Relaxation 107
Unit Thirteen Stress Shifts 110
Exercise 1 Spotting stress 110
Exercise 2 Stress distinction 111
Exercise 3 Identifying stress 112
Exercise 4 Stress application 113
Exercise 5 Matching stress patterns 114
Exercise 6 Relaxation 115
Unit Fourteen Rhythm 118
Exercise 1 Spotting longer vowels in each pair 119
Exercise 2 Liaison revision 120
Exercise 3 Experiencing rhythm 120
Exercise 4 Identifying rhythm 121
Exercise 5 Identifying stress patterns 122
Exercise 6 Rhythm appreciation 123
Exercise 7 Relaxation 123
Unit Fifteen Intonation Ⅰ 126
Exercise 1 Experiencing intonation 127
Exercise 2 Intonation distinction 128
Exercise 3 Intonation identification 129
Exercise 4 Intonation application 129
Exercise 5 Intonation appreciation 130
Exercise 6 Dictation 131
Exercise 7 Relaxation 132
Unit Sixteen Intonation Ⅱ 134
Exercise 1 Spotting stress 134
Exercise 2 Identifying meaning 136
Exercise 3 Intonation implication 138
Exercise 4 Intonation application 138
Exercise 5 Relaxation 140
Quiz Unit 11-Unit 16 143
Tapescripts and Key 149
Bibliography 199