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Targeting Pronunciation: Communication Clearly in English, 2nd edition / Sue F. Miller (Houghton Mifflin, 2006)
Rev: September 13, 2005
University of Wisconsin - Madison
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Room 259
Set Call Number: EN1.055
TYPE OF PROGRAM: English as a second language
ACCESSION DATE: September 2005
DESCRIPTION: Audio to accompany text. ISBN 0-618-44211-1.
AUDIENCE: beginning ESL
FORMAT: Originally 5 CDs ; available on the web only to students enrolled in the course
CONTENT TIME CALL NUMBER
CD 1: Chapters 1-3
CD 2: Chapters 4-6
CD 3: Chapters 7-9
CD 4: Chapters 9-12
CD 5: Chapter 12-Appendix B
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Unit I: Getting Started
Chapter 1: Improving your Pronunciation
- P.5, Syllables
- P.5, Word Stress
- P.5, Important Endings
- P.6, Missing Sounds
- P.6, Reduced Speech
- P.6, Focus Words
- P.7, Focus Words
- P.7, Phrases
- P.7, Thought Groups
- P.8, Intonation
- P.8, Intonation
- P.8, Intonation
- P.12, Learn by Listening 1, Part 1
- P.12, Learn by Listening 1, Part 2
Chapter 2: Pronunciation Basics
- P.16, Intonation
- P.17, A relaxed jaw
- P.17, A flat, low tongue
- P.17, Relaxed lips
- P.18, Learn by Listening 1
- P.18, Learn by Listening 2
- P.19, Learn by Listening 3, #1
- P.19, Learn by Listening 3, #2
- P.20, Partner Practice
- P.21, Improve Your Monitoring
- P.22, Improve Your Monitoring
- P.22, Learn by Listening 4
- P.23, Partner Practice
- P.24, Partner Practice
- P.25, Learn by Listening 5
- P.26, Improve Your Monitoring
- P.27, Group Practice 2
- P.27, Join the Chorus
- P.28, Partner Practice
- P.29, Sing Along
- P.32, Diction
Unit II: Words
Chapter 3: Stressing Syllable and Speaking Clearly
- P.35, Learn by Listening 1
- P.36, Learn by Listening 2
- P.37, Learn by Listening 3
- P.37, Group Practice 1
- P.39, Partner Practice
- P.40, Figure out the guidelines
- P.41, Learn by Listening 4
- P.41, Learn by Listening 5
- P.42, Group Practice 2, #1
- P.43, Group Practice 2, #2
- P.44, Group Practice 3
- P.45, Improve Your Monitoring: Same or different?
- P.45, Improve Your Monitoring: Which Sentence do you hear?
- P.46, Join the Chorus
- P.46, Learn by Listening 6
- P.48, Learn by Listening 7
- P.48, Partner Practice
- P.50, Join the Chorus
- P.51, Self-Quiz
- P.53, Making your new Pronunciation a Habit, #3
Chapter 4: More Intonation Patterns: More Words
- P.58, Learn by Listening 1
- P.59, Pattern II
- P.59, Prefixes
- P.60, Learn by Listening 2
- P.62, Learn by Listening 3
- P.62, Improve your Monitoring
- P.64, For your information
- P.65, Learn by Listening 4
- P.66, Join the Chorus
- P.67, Learn by Listening 5
- P.68, Communicative Activity
- P.69, Sing Along #1
- P.69, Sing Along #2
- P.71, Dialogue
Unit III
Chapter 5: Speech Rhythm: Stress and Unstress
- P.77, Learn by Listening 1
- P.77, Learn by Listening 2
- P.78, Group Practice 2
- P.79, Learn by Listening 3
- P.81, Group Practice 3
- P.82, Group Practice 4
- P.83, Learn by Listening 4, Guidelines 1 and 2
- P.84, Guidelines 3 and 4
- P.84, Guidelines 5 and 6
- P.85, Dialogue
- P.85, Join the Chorus
- P.85, Partner Practice, #1
- P.86, Partner Practice, #3
- P.86, Join the Chorus
- P.87, Learn by Listening 5
- P.89, Learn by Listening 6, Guidelines 1-2
- P.90, Guidelines 3-5
- P.90, Guideline 6
- P.93, Partner Practice
- P.94, Partner Practice: Two dialogues
- P.94, Partner Practice: Giving a choice
- P.95, Partner Practice, #1
Chapter 6: Vowels and Speech Music
- P.100, Learn by Listening 1
- P.101, Partner Practice
- P.101, Communicative Activity
- P.102, Learn by Listening 2
- P.103, Improve your Monitoring
- P.104, Learn by Listening 3
- P.106, Dialogue
- P.106, Learn by Listening 4
- P.107, Partner Practice
- P.108, Learn by Listening 5
- P.109, Learn by Listening 6
- P.111, Learn by Listening 7
- P.112, Moving your mouth for English: Contrast 3 short vowels
- P.112, Moving your mouth for English: Contrast 2 more short vowels
- P.113, Partner Practice
- P.114, Learn by Listening 8
- P.114, Improve your Monitoring
- P.115, Partner Practice
- P.116, Learn by Listening 9
- P.117, Story
- P.117, Proverbs
- P.118, Dialogue
- P.121, Dictation
- P.121, Talk Times in Class
- P.122, On Your Own
Chapter 7: Sing Along: The Melody of Speech
- P.123, How Much Melody Do People Use?
- P.124, Group Practice
- P.125, Guidelines 1-3
- P.126, Improve your Monitoring
- P.126, Learn by Listening 1
- P.127, Improve your Monitoring
- P.127, Guidelines 4-5
- P.128, Partner Practice
- P.129, Guideline 6
- P.129, Partner Practice
- P.130, Partner Practice
- P.131, Learn by Listening 2
- P.131, Learn by Listening 3
- P.132, Join the Chorus
- P.134, Learn by Listening 4
- P.134, Partner Practice
- P.135, Dialogues
- P.136, Learn by Listening 5
- P.136, Sing Along
- P.137, Partner Practice
- P.138, Learn by Listening 6
- P.139, Partner Practice
- P.140, Learn by Listening 7
- P.140, Partner Practice
Unit IV: Sounds: Consonants and Vowels
Chapter 8: The Speech Pathway-What's Happening Where?
- P.151, Group Practice 6
- P.152, Learn by Listening 1
- P.153, Communicative Activity
- P.154, Learn by Listening 2
- P.154, Improve your Monitoring
- P.155, Learn by Listening 3
- P.156, Group Practice 7
- P.158, Learn by Listening 4
- P.158, Improve your Monitoring
- P.161, Group Practice 10
- P.162, Dialogue
- P.163, Partner Practice
- P.165, Group Practice 12
- P.165, Group Practice 13
- P.167, Group Practice 14
- P.167, Group Practice 15
- P.169, Join the Chorus
- P.171, Dictation
Chapter 9: Important Endings
- P.173, Examples of "ed" and "s" endings
- P.173, Improve your Monitoring
- P.174, "ed" or "ed"?
- P.175, Learn by Listening 1
- P.176, Join the Chorus
- P.177, Improve your Monitoring
- P.178, Dialogue
- P.179, Learn by Listening 2, #1
- P.180, Learn by Listening 2, #2
- P.181, "S" endings
- P.181, Learn by Listening 1
- P.181, Learn by Listening 2
- P.182, Improve your Monitoring
- P.182, Group Practice 1
- P.183, Two Dialogues
- P.184, Improve your Monitoring
- Introductory Music
- P.184, Group Practice 2
- P.185, Partner Practice
- P.186, Voiced Sibilants
- P.186, Improve your Monitoring
- P.187, Join the Chorus
- P.188, Group Practice 3
- P.189, Measure
- P.189, Chip
- P.189, Jump
- P.191, Improve your Monitoring
- P.191, Group Practice 4
- P.192, Group Practice 5
- P.192, Partner Practice
- P.192, Learn by Listening
- P.194, Join the Chorus
- P.195, Dictation
Chapter 10: More about vowels and consonants
- P.197, Group Practice 1
- P.198, Voiceless and Voiced Final Continuants
- P.199, Improve Your Monitoring
- P.200, Learn By Listening 1
- P.200, Learn By Listening 2
- P.202, Learn By Listening 3
- P.202, Learn By Listening 4
- P.203, Story
- P.203, Join the Chorus
- P.205, Learn By Listening 5
- P.206, Improve Your Monitoring
- P.206, Learn By Listening 6
- P.207, Learn By Listening 7
- P.208, Group Practice 2
- P.209, Join the Chorus
- P.209, Dialogue with r
- P.210, Role Play
- P.211, Sing Along
- p.213, Dictation
UNIT V: PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER
Chapter 11: More about conversational speech
- P.216, Partner practice
- P.217, Improve Your Monitoring
- P.217, Group Practice 1
- P.219, Group Practice 2
- P.220, Partner Practice
- P.221, Cartoon
- P.222, Join the Chorus
- P.223, Dialogue
- P.223, Learn By Listening 1
- P.224, PSA 1
- P.224, PSA 2
- P.225, PSA 3
- P.225, PSA 4
- P.227, sing Along
- P.229, Dictation
Chapter 12: More about Thought Groups
- P.231, Learn By Listening 1, Guidelines 1 and 2
- P.232, Learn By Listening 1, #1-3
- P.233, Partner Practice
- P.234, Dialogue
- Introductory Music
- P.235, Learn By Listening 2
- P.236, PSA 1
- P.236, PSA 2
- P.236, PSA 3
- P.237, Learn By Listening 3
- P.238, PSA 5
- P.239, Communicative Activity
- P.249, PSA 6
- P.240, PSA 7
- P.242, Join the Chorus
- P.243, Talk Times in Class
Appendix A: Consonants
- P.A-1, Improve your Monitoring
- P.A-2, Contrast f and p
- P.A-2, Contrast b and v (voiced)
- P.A-3, Contrast w and v
- P.A-4, Contrast o and s
- P.A-5, Target 3
- P.A-6, Paragraph
- p.A-6, ("sh", "ch" and "j")
- P.A-6, ("ch" and "j")
- P.A-7, Improve Your Monitoring
- P.A-7, Improve Your Monitoring
- P.A-7, Another sibilant"x"
- P.A-8, Improve Your Monitoring: r and w
- P.A-8, Improve Your Monitoring: r and l
- P.A-9, Vowel + r
- P.A-9, Paragraph
- P.A-10, Improve Your Monitoring
- P.A-11, Clusters across World Boundaries
Appendix B: Vowels
- P.A-12, Introducing fifteen Vowels
- P.A-13, Long Vowels
- P.A-13, Five Long Vowels
- P.A-14, Two more Long Vowels
- P.A-14, Six Short Vowels
- P.A-15, Contrast short Vowels
- P.A-15, Improve your Monitoring #1
- P.A-16, Improve your Monitoring #3
- P.A-16, YES, FAT and a STOP
- P.A-16, Contrast with a Vowel + r
- P.A-17, Improve your Monitoring
- P.A-17, Learn about Shirley
- P.A-18, Spelling Variations for 3r
- P.A-18, Other Vowels + r
- P.A-19, The Unstressed 3r
- P.A-19, Contrasting word pairs
- P.A-20, Contrasting i (see) and i (it) (Vowels 1 and 2)
- P.A-20, Improve your Monitoring
- P.A-21, Improve your Monitoring: short and long vowels
- P.A-21, Improve your Monitoring: Say and yes
- P.A-21, Contrast u (two) and u (books) and o (show) and o (boss)
- P.A-22, Contrast u (two) and u (books)
- P.A-22, Vowel Practice
- P.A-23, Vowel Practice
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