美式英語正音訓練第58期:練習1&2&3&4&5
Exercise 3-1 :
Word-by-Word and in a Sentence
that
He said th't it's OK.
than
It's bigger th'n before
as
'z soon'z he gets here...
at
Look' t the time!
and
ham'n eggs
have
Where h'v you been
had
He h'd been at home.
can
C'n you do it
Exercise 3-2:
Finding , , and Sounds
There are five ,
ten ,
and seventy-five sounds in the following paragraph.
Underscore them in pen or pencil.
The first one of each sound is marked for you.
Next, check your answers with the Answer Key, beginning on page 193.
Finally, take your markers and give a color to each sound.
For example,
mark green,
blue, and yellow.
Turn your CD off
and read the paragraph three times on your own.
Exercise 3-3:
Vowel-Sound Differentiation
Here we will read down from 1 to 24,
then we will read each row across.
Give the sound a clear double sound ee.
Also, the o is a longer sound than you might be expecting.
Add the full ooh sound after each "o."
Ann
ban
can
cat
Dan
fan
gap
hat
Jan
lamp
man
matter
Nan
gnat
pan
ran
sand
shall
chance
tack
van
wax
yam
zap
on
bond
con
caught/cot
Don/dawn
fawn
gone
hot
John
lawn
monster
motto
non
not/knot
pawn
Ron
sawn
Sean
chalk
talk
Von
want
yawn
czar
un~
bun
come
cut
done
fun
gun
hut
jump
lump
Monday
mutter
none/nun
nut
pun
run
sun
shut
chuck
tuck
vug
won/one
young
result
across
1.
Ann
on
un~
2.
ban
bond
bun
3.
can
con
come
4.
cat
caught/cot
cut
To have your pronunciation tested, call 800 457-4255.
Exercise 3-4:
Reading the Sound
The Tn Mn
A fashionably tan man
sat casually at the bat stand,
lashing a handful of practice bats.
The manager,
a crabby old bag of bones,
passed by and laughed,
"You're about average, Jack.
Can't you lash faster than that"
Jack had had enough,
so he clambered to his feet
and lashed bats faster
than any man had ever lashed bats.
As a matter of fact,
he lashed bats so fast
that he seemed to dance.
The manager was aghast.
"Jack, you're a master bat lasher!"
he gasped.
Satisfied at last,
Jack sat back
and never lashed another bat.
Pause the CD and read The Tn Mn aloud.
Turn it back on to continue.
Exercise 3-5:
Reading the Sound
A Lt of Lng, Ht Walks in the Garden
John was not sorry
when the boss called off the walks
in the garden.
Obviously, to him,
it was awfully hot,
and the walks were far too long.
He had not thought
that walking
would have caught on
the way it did,
and he fought the policy
from the onset.
At first,
he thought he could talk it over
at the law office
and have it quashed,
but a small obstacle*
halted that thought.
The top lawyers always bought coffee
at the shop across the lawn
and they didn't want to stop
on John's account.
John's problem was not office politics,
but office policy.
He resolved the problem
by bombing the garden.
Pause the CD
and read A Lt of Lng, Ht Wlks in the Grden aloud.
