Elements of Pronunciation provides intensive and enjoyable practice in features of English pronunciation that intermediate and more advanced students usually find difficult. The clever and convincing dialogues concentrate on stress timing, weak forms, contractions, linking and consonant clusters, as well as providing valuable intonation practice. The dialogues are recorded in the following form: a ‘listen-and-repeat’ section, then a recording of the dialogue at natural speed, and then a version with pauses to allow intensive practice. The material can be used in the classroom, in the language laboratory and by a student working alone with a cassette recorder. This book is. | Elements of Pronunciation Intensive practice for intermediate and more advanced students This hook provides intensive and enjoyable practice in features of English pronunciation that intermediate and more advanced students usually find difficult. The clever and convincing dialogues concentrate on stress timing weak forms contractions linking and consonant clusters as well as providing valuable intonation practice. The dialogues are recordedun the following form a Misten-and-repeaf section then a recording of the dialogue at natural speed and then a version with pauses to allow intensive practice. The material can be used in the classroom in the language laboratory and by 1 student working alone with a cassette recorder. This book is accompanied by a set of four cassettes. 3 Elements of Pronunciation O O c 3 Intensive practice for intermediate and more advanced students o 3 Colin Mortimer This is a very good clearly written hook on pronunciation divided into five crucially important sections . . . lad section contains an introduction and a delightful practice section. Perspectives Cambridge UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge UNIVERSITY PRESS Elements of Pronunciation Intensive practice for intermediate and more advanced students Colin Mortimer IjjM Cambridge UNIVERSITY PRESS PUBLISHED BY THE PRESS SYNDICATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE The Pitt Building Trumpington Street Cambridge CB2 1RP United Kingdom CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS The Edinburgh Building Cambridge CB2 2RU United Kingdom 40 West 20th Street New York NY 10011-4211 USA 10 Stamford Road Oakleigh Melbourne 3166 Australia Cambridge University Press 1985 This book is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 1985 Twelfth printing 1997 Printed in the United Kingdom by Athenaeum Press Gateshead Tyne Wear ISBN 0 521 26938 5 Book
