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Introduction
Section A English Phonemes
Unit 1 Front Vowels£ºBeat£¬Bit£¬Bet£¬Bat
1£®1 Warming up
1£®2 Making the four sounds
1£®3 Learning for communication
Exercises
Unit 2 Back Vowels£ºToo Good to Be True
2£®1 Warming up
2£®2 Making the five sounds
2£®3 Learning for communication
Exercises
Unit3 Central Vowels£ºWords Touch Her
3£®1 Warming up
3£®2 Making the three sounds
3£®3 BE and AE accents in /3£º/and/a
3£®4 Learning for communication
Exercises
Unit 4 Diphthongs£ºTime Waits for No Man
4£®1 Warming up
4£®2 Making these sounds
4£®3 Pairs recognition
4£®4 Learning for communication
Exercises
Unit5 stops£ºPlayed the Guitar in the Pub
5£®1 Warming up
5£®2 Making these sounds
5£®3 Different /p£¬b£¬t£¬d£¬k£¬g
5£®4 Special/t
5£®5 Learning for communication
Exercises
Unit6 Fricatives£º The Music of Brothers Four
6£®1 Warming up
6£®2 Making these sounds
6£®3 Learning for communication
Exercises
Unit7 Affricates£º Chips and Orange Juice
7£®1 Warming up
7£®2 Making the two sounds
7£®3 Learning for communication
Exercises
Unit 8 Nasals and Lateral£ºLovely Morning
8£®1 Warming up
8£®2 Making these sounds
8£®3 Syllabic /n/ and
8£®4 Learning for communication
Exercises
Unit 9 Approximants£ºWill You Be There
9£®1 Warming up
9£®2 Making these sounds
9£®3 Special /r
9£®4 Learning for communication
Exercises
Review

Section B Connected and Communicative Speech
Unit 10 Consonant Cluster£ºSlip£¬Slide into Stream
10£®1 Warming up
10£®2 What is a consonant cluster
10£®3 Consonant clusters in speech
10£®4 Learning for communication
Exercises
Unit 11 Syllables and Letters'Reading£ºOne House£¬Two Houses
11£®1 Warming up
11£®2 What is the syllable
11£®3 Types of English syllable
11£®4 How to count syllables
11£®5 Strong and weak syllables
11£®6 Vowel letters'reading
11£®7 Learning for communication
Exercises
Unit 12 Word Stress£ºSaturday£¬September£¬Thirteen
12£®1 Warming up
12£®2 What is the stress
12£®3 Identification of the word stress
12£®4 Three features of the word stress
12£®5 Word stress patterns
12£®6 Learning for communication
Exercises
Unit 13 Rules of Word Stress£ºMy Checklist
13£®1 Warming up
13£®2 Words stress rules
13£®3 Learning for communication
Exercises
Unit 14 Stressed Words in the Sentence£ºThat Is a Question
14£®1 Warming up
14£®2 What is the sentence stress
14£®3 Basic rules for sentence stress
14£®4 Clarifying the meaning of sentence stress
14£®5 How to read descriptive phrases and set phrases
14£®6 How to read phrasal verbs
14£®7 Learning for communication
Exercises
Unit 15 Stressed Function Words in the Sentence£ºIt's Not Me
15£®1 Warming up
15£®2 Stressed function words
15£®3 Unstressed content words
15£®4 Learning for communication
Exercises
Unit 16 Strong Form and Weak Form£ºWhat Should I Do
16£®1 Warming up
16£®2 What is the weak form
16£®3 Weak forms of function words
16£®4 Contracted forms
16£®5 Learning for communication
Exercises
Unit 17 Rhythm£ºThrough the Day and the Night
17£®1 Warming up
17£®2 What is the rhythm
17£®3 Rhythm patterns
17£®4 Learning for communication
Exercises
Unit 18 Linking and Assimilation£ºThere Are a Lot of Books in the Picture
18£®1 Warming up
18£®2 What is the linking
18£®3 Three types of linking
18£®4 Assimilation
18£®5 Silent sound
18£®6 Elision
18£®7 Learning for communication
Exercises
Unit 19 Phrasing and Pausing£ºWas That the Question He Asked
19£®1 Warming up
19£®2 What is a sense group
19£®3 Phrase and thought group
19£®4 Sense group and pausing
19£®5 Learning for communication
Exercises

Section C Intonation
Unit 20 Basic Concepts of Intonation£ºIsn't It Fantastic
20£®1 Warming up
20£®2 What is the intonation
20£®3 Tone unit£¬tonic syllable and tone
20£®4 Structure of the tone unit
20£®5 Learning for communication
Exercises
Unit 21 Function of Intonation£ºWhat? Bear
21£®1 Warming up
21£®2 Main functions of intonation
21£®3 Other functions of intonation
21£®4 Listening for communication
Exercises
References
Appendix 1 Phonological Terms
Appendix 2 Transcription
Appendix 3 English Foreign Words and Their Pronunciation
Key