This
self-study unit aims to help you improve your English pronunciation
at an advanced level. Elements of native speaker¡¦s speaking fluency
will be learned so that your pronunciation can arrive at native-like
fluency. These elements are supra-segmental features as we
technically call them, while the vowels and consonants are
categorized as segmental features. This program provides you with
easy drills of supra-segmental features, namely: reductions,
linking, flap, ¡K etc. Also common mistakes of pronunciation in
spoken English will also be corrected with exercises. At the end of
the five lessons, you will learn how extremely different spoken
English pronunciation can be from written words, and most important
of all, it can be learned through constant practices in a short
time.
There will
be five units in this program. In each
unit, five sections are designed to
assist you achieve the language target of the unit.
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In the
first section Focus, the assigned pronunciation features will
be introduced and how they are pronounced will be explained.
This part gives you a clear picture of how to speak very fluently
with methods. Then these features will be observed in the following
section, From Listening to
Pronunciation. This section offers you
a wholesome picture of how these features are spoken in a complete
dialogue or a reading passage. And the third section,
Pronunciation Drill, covers drills that break down the
pronunciation features and offers you chances to polish on the
fluency of each particular feature. More drills are later done in
Variety Show, where tongue twisters, nursery rhymes, or poems
are used to make practices even more interesting. Finally a
listening quiz under Listen and Check will help you examine
if you have accommodated yourself to identify the pronunciation
features that you have learned in this unit.
