Part One English Consonants 1
Unit One Stops 4
Classroom Work 4
Listening&Imitation 9
Reading&Reciting 11
Unit Two Fricatives 13
Classroom Work 13
Listening&Imitation 20
Reading&Reciting 23
Unit Three Affricatives 25
Classroom Work 25
Listening&Imitation 29
Reading&Reciting 32
Unit Four Nasals,Laterals&Semi-Vowels 34
Classroom Work 34
Listening&Imitation 41
Reading&Reciting 43
Unit Five Consonant Clusters 45
Classroom Work 45
Listening&Imitation 49
Reading&Reciting 51
Unit Six Incomplete Plosion,Nasal&Lateral Plosion 54
Classroom Work 54
Listening&Imitation 58
Reading&Reciting 60
Part Two English Vowels 62
Unit Seven Front Vowels 63
Classroom Work 63
Listening&Imitation 67
Reading&Reciting 70
Unit Eight Central Vowels 72
Classroom Work 72
Listening&Imitation 75
Reading&Reciting 77
Unit Nine Back Vowels 79
Classroom Work 79
Listening&Imitation 84
Reading&Reciting 87
Part Three Diphthongs 89
Unit Ten Centering 89
Classroom Work 90
Listening&Imitation 93
Reading&Reciting 95
Unit Eleven Closing 97
Classroom Work 97
Listening&Imitation 102
Reading&Reciting 104
Part Four Flow of Speech 107
Unit Twelve Word Stress and Sentence Stress 107
Classroom Work 110
Listening&Imitation 111
Reading&Reciting 114
Unit Thirteen StrongWeak Form&Rhythm 115
Classroom Work 117
Listening&Imitation 119
Reading&Reciting 121
Unit Fourteen Liaison 123
Classroom Work 124
Listening&Imitation 125
Reading&Reciting 126
Unit Fifteen Intonation 127
Classroom Work 131
Listening&Imitation 132
Reading&Reciting 134
Part Five Recitation of Classical English Poems with Rhymes 135
Love Poems 135
01 Her Hands 135
02 Dad 136
03 When I Collided with That Girl 136
04 You Are All through the Nature 136
05 The Furthest Distance in the World 137
06 The Ocean of Love 137
Passion Poems 138
07 Alone 138
08 I Think I Can 138
09 I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud 138
10 The Forgotten Mother 139
11 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 140
12 Nurse's Song 141
13 Not Just a Teacher,But a Friend 142
14 How to Create the Perfect Family 143
15 Joy 143
Nature Poems 144
16 Summer 144
17 Our Mother Earth 144
18 Look Outside 145
19 Summer Sun 146
20 The Star 147
21 The Moon 147
22 Who Has Seen the Wind? 148
Pathetic Poems 148
23 Remember 148
24 Beautiful 149
25 Loss and Gain 149
26 Dreams 150
27 The Broken Field 150
28 He Wishes His Beloved Dead 150
29 Fire and Ice 151
30 Auguries of Innocence 151
Part Six Recitation of Good English Articles with Rhythms 153
Love and the Love of Books 153
01 A Box Full of Kisses 153
02 The Happy Door 154
03 Love Your Life 154
04 Wait for the Brick 155
05 Companionship of Books 156
06 Reading a Good Book Is One of My Favorite Things in the World. 157
Charms of Being a Chinese 158
07 The Charm of Chinese Language 158
08 Chinese New Year 159
09 The Silk Road—Ancient Trading Route between Europe and Asia 160
10 How China's Inventions Changed the World 161
11 Chinese Luxury Goods Want to Compete with the West 161
Modern Life 162
12 How E-Commerce Is Changing People's Shopping Habits 162
13 Social Media Networks Are Changing Our Way of Having Relationships 163
14 Web 3.0 164
15 Twitter 165
Health 166
16 How Healthy Is Coffee Reay? 166
17 Water in Our Daily Lives 167
18 Shorter Lives for Couch Potatoes? 167
19 Physical Fitness 168
20 People Spend Half the Day Daydreaming 169
21 Dreams 169
Entertainment and Social life 170
22 Colors—What They Mean and How They Affect Us 170
23 Barbie at 50—the Most Famous Doll in the World 172
24 Amusement Parks 173
25 Generation Y—Their Attitudes towards Work and Life 173
26 Chocolate—History and Production 174
27 Teaching Children How to Deal with Money 175
28 Teens,Television and Depression 176
29 Do Women and Men Play Soccer Differently? 177
30 Beauties of English 178
Appendix Ⅰ 180
Appendix Ⅱ 182
Exercise Keys 187
Bibliography 200