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1. Pronunciation Matters : Communicative, Story-Based
Activities for Mastering the Sounds of North American
English by Lynn Earl Henrichsen, Brent Green, Atsuko
Nishitani, Carol Lynne Bagley, Paperback: 112 pages,
Publisher: University of Michigan Press/ESL
Using a story-based approach, Pronunciation Matters
provides ESL/EFL learners with nearly two hundred
communicative and motivating practices leading to
mastery of a variety of sound contrasts in North
American English that are problematic for speakers of
other languages. Units address the many areas that
experienced ESL/EFL teachers have noted as troublesome
for learners of English--not only vowels and consonants
but also stress and intonation, for example. Contexts
have been carefully engineered to focus on important
sound contrasts in North American English.
Chalkboard-style pictures illustrate each context and
make practice more meaningful and interesting.
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American Accent Training (American Accent Training) by Ann Cook, Paperback: 210 pages, Publisher: Barron's Educational
The second edition, now on 5 audio CDs, is for
foreign-born students and business people working,
traveling or studying in the United States and Canada.
Through extensive intonation and pronunciation
exercises, students learn how to speak with a standard
American Accent. At the same time, listening
comprehension improves dramatically. Supplementary
materials included detailed nationality guides for eight
languages (Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Spanish, French,
German, Russian and Korean), access to a comprehensive
website, and referral to a qualified telephone analyst
for an individual diagnostic speech analysis. Also
included are colored markers for written exercises, and
a mirror to practice accurate pronunciation.
3. Active Listening 1: Introducing Skills for
Understanding Audio CDs (Active Listening) by Marc
Helgesen, Steven Brown , Dorolyn Smith, Audio CD,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
The lowest level of the Active Listening series, a
three-level listening course in North American English
that draws on recent research in comprehension. This
high-beginning to low-intermediate text offers 20
engaging, task-based units, each built around a topic,
function, or grammatical theme. Active Listening
activates students' knowledge of a topic before they
listen, giving them a frame of reference to make
predictions about what they will hear. Students learn to
listen through a careful balance of activities including
listening for gist, listening for specific information,
and making inferences. Major features: - a “Before You
Begin” unit to develop awareness of listening strategies
- pre-listening schema-building activities - a carefully
balanced variety of listening tasks - natural recordings
with a range of accents - short readings to provide
cross-cultural information - a speaking activity in
every unit. This level of Active Listening consists of a
Student's Book, an interleaved Teacher's Edition, two
Cassettes, and three audio CDs.
4. Listening 3; Cassettes (2): Upper-intermediate
by Joanne Collie, Stephen Slater, Adrian Doff (Series
Editor), Audio Cassette, Publisher: Cambridge University
Press
Cambridge Skills for Fluency is a learner-centred range
of materials designed specifically to develop students'
fluency and confidence in listening, speaking, reading
and writing. The books are at four levels from
pre-intermediate through to advanced and are suitable
for use as supplementary texts or as core texts on
skills development courses. Each book in the Cambridge
Skills for Fluency series: promotes fluency by
presenting a wide variety of both old and new topics in
creative and imaginative ways, genuinely engages
students' interest and encourages them to share personal
reactions and opinions fluently - focuses on a
particular skill but the other skills are integrated in
a way that reflects real life use of language - contains
twenty units designed to take about an hour of class
time, a detailed contents map and brief teaching notes.
5. Intermediate Listening Comprehension:
Understanding and Recalling Spoken English (College ESL)
by Patricia Dunkel, Phyllis L. Lim, Paperback: 177
pages, Publisher: Heinle & Heinle
Intermediate Listening Comprehension 2/E is an intensive
training program in listening fluency development.
6. Ship or Sheep? Student's book : An Intermediate
Pronunciation Course (Introducing English Pronunciation)
by Ann Baker, Paperback: 176 pages, Publisher: Cambridge
University Press
This is a comprehensive pronunciation course for
intermediate students of English. It provides systematic
practice of English pronunciation, stress and intonation
through a wide variety of interesting exercises and
activities. The course is accompanied by a recording of
all the practice material on three cassettes. The book
and the recordings are both designed for use in class
and by students working alone.
7. Listening Extra Book and Audio CD Pack: A Resource
Book of Multi-Level Skills Activities; Paperback: 136
pages Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Listening Extra contains a bank of imaginative
photocopiable materials designed for young adults (16+)
and adults. There are over 50 easy-to-prepare activities
at elementary, intermediate and upper-intermediate
level. The material offers teachers a refreshing
approach to 18 familiar topics and can be used to
supplement existing coursebooks. Activities are designed
around authentic scenarios and practise specific
listening skills, such as listening for details,
identifying emotions or listening for opinions. At the
same time as practising a key listening skill, the
activities integrate the other skill areas. Students are
exposed to a variety of native and non-native speaker
accents. The recordings cover a range of genres from
radio and television to academic lectures, presentations
and conversational dialogues.
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