Unit 1 English spelling and English sounds
Vocabulary:
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consonant
distribution
final
initial
IPA
medial
minimal pair
orthography
phoneme
phonetic alphabet
spelling
vowel
1. The spelling system, p. 4
a. Same letter, different sounds: see, sure, busy, Asia
b. Same sounds, different letters: baby, stake, rain
c. Letters representing no sound: design, island, bomb
2. Check your spelling, p. 5
a. More letters than sounds (silent letters): knee, debt
b. More sounds than letters: fix, extra
3. The phonetic alphabet, p. 6
4. Further practice, p. 9
Unit 2 the speech mechanism
Vocabulary:
articulators
diaphragm
1. Articulators, p. 11
2. identify your speech organs, p. 11
3. Voiced and voiceless sounds, p. 11
4. Consonants, p. 12
5. Vowels, p. 13
6. Further practice, p. 15
voiced/voiceless
Unit 3 syllable stress
Vocabulary:
stress
primary
secondary
intonation
pitch
1. Identifying syllables, p. 18
a. Syllables in words, p. 19
1. One syllable, p. 19
2. Two syllables, p. 19
3. Three or more syllables, p. 19
b. Check your listening, p. 19
2. Syllables stress, p. 19
a. Syllable stress in words, p. 20
1. One syllable words, p. 20
2. Two syllable words, p. 20
a. Stress on first syllable, p. 20
b. Stress on second syllable, p. 20
3. Three syllable words, p. 21
a. Stress on first syllable, p. 21
b. Stress on second syllable, p. 21
c. Stress on third syllable, p. 21
4. Four syllable words, p. 21
a. Stress on first syllable, p. 21
b. Stress on second syllable, p. 21
c. Stress on third syllable, p. 21
5. Five and six syllable words, p. 22
3. Check your listening, p. 22
4. Reduced vowels in unstressed syllables, p. 23
5. Check your listening, p. 24
6. Stress in words with prefixes and suffixes, p. 24
a. Prefixes, p. 24
b. Suffixes, p. 25
c. Fill in the blanks, p. 25
7. Shifts in stress, p. 26
8. Stress in compound nouns, p. 28
a. Noun + noun compounds, p. 28
b. Compound proper nouns, p. 28
c. Compound nouns ending in the word "day", p. 28
d. Adjective + noun compounds, p. 29
e. Verb + noun compounds, p. 29
f. Work with a partner, p. 30
g. Days of the week, p. 31
h. Months of the year, p. 31
9. Further practice, p. 32