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| A Resource Book for Teaching English Pronunciation | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Background:A What is pronunciation?;B Key issues in pronunciation teaching and learning | |
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| Activities | |
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| Developing awareness of English pronunciation | |
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| Introducing features of pronunciation | |
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| Getting you thinking: A pronunciation questionnaire | |
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| Making vowel sounds | |
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| Consonant clusters: English and L1 differences | |
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| Comparing slow and quick speech | |
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| Sounding English | |
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| Pronouncing names in English | |
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| Pronouncing places, products and planets | |
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| Impersonations | |
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| Intonation in print | |
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| Sounds: vowels, consonants and consonant clusters:A Vowels | |
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| Matching vowel sounds: A family tree | |
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| Finding words including the same vowel sound: Word routes | |
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| Hearing and saying differences between vowels and between consonants: Minimal pairs | |
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| Communicating with single vowel sounds | |
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| Classifying words according to their first vowel;B Consonants | |
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| Who lives where? Minimal pair names | |
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| Lip-reading | |
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| Classifying words according to their first consonant | |
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| Getting rid of unwanted vowels C Consonants clusters | |
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| Word chains | |
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| Definitions quiz | |
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| Consonant cluster towers | |
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| Connected speech:A Links between words | |
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| Matching adjectives and nouns: consonant to vowel links | |
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| Changing sounds: consonant to consonant links | |
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| Predict the linking sounds: vowels linked with /j/ (''y'') and /w/ | |
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| Matching opposites and words that go together: vowels linked with /r/;B Contracted forms | |
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| Dialogues | |
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| Talking about families | |
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| Comparing speech and writing; C Weak and strong forms of grammar words | |
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| Comparing weak and strong forms | |
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| Predicting weak and strong forms | |
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| Listening to weak forms;D Leaving out sounds | |
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| 1 Leaving out consonants: /t/ and /d/ in clusters | |
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| Leaving out vowels in words | |
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| Syllables, word stress, and stress in phrases:A Syllables | |
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| How many syllables? | |
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| The same or different number of syllables? | |
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| Eliminating words;B Word stress | |
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| Demonstrating syllable length | |
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| Matching words with their stress patterns | |
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| Group the words | |
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| Country names | |
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| At the supermarket | |
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| Stress patterns in ''-ty'' and ''-teen'' numbers (1): Bingo | |
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| Stress patterns in ''-ty'' and ''-teen'' numbers (2): Talking about accommodation | |
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| Stress in noun - verb pair | |
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| Rules of word stress in two-syllable nouns, adjectives and verbs;C Stress and word formation | |
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| 3 Rules of word stress: prefixes and suffixes | |
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| Suffixes and word stress: words ending -ian | |
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| Suffixes and word stress: words ending -ic and -ical | |
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| Stress in phrasal verbs and related nouns,4. 17 Rules of stress in compound nouns;D Stress in phrases | |
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| 8 Same or different stress patterns? | |
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| Find your partners | |
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| Stress shift in nationality words | |
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| Stress shift in compounds | |
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| Intonation A Prominence: highlighting words and syllables | |
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| Introducing prominent and non-prominent words: James Bond | |
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| Hearing and saying prominent words: They''re on the table | |
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| Prominence contrasts within words: stalactites and stalagmites; B Tone units and tonic placement | |
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| Dividing speech into tone units | |
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| Tonic word placement: At ten to seven, or ten to eight?;C Tones | |
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| Choosing tones: Fall or rise? | |
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| Tone choice in questions | |
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| Falling and falling-rising tones: Reservation | |
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| ''News'' and ''not news'': correcting | |
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| Pronunciation and other parts of language: spelling, grammar and vocabulary:A Pronunciation and spelling | |
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| Grouping English alphabet letters | |
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| Pronouncing single vowel letters (1) | |
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| Pronouncing single vowel letters (2) | |
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| Pronouncing pairs of vowel letters: OU, OA, OE, OI, OO | |
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| Pronouncing consonant letters: C and G | |
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| Pronouncing consonant pairs: PH, CH, SH, and GH | |
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| Homographs: a row about rowing?;B Pronunciation and grammar | |
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| Pronouncing -s in plurals, verbs and possessives | |
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| Pronouncing -ed in past tense verbs:C Pronunciation and vocabulary | |
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| Classifying words | |
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| Odd one out | |
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| Problem pronunciations | |
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| Testing pronunciation | |
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| General evaluation of pronunciation,7 | |