Practice exercises to be used in conjunction with the accompanying audio cd.

Clear Speech from the Start concentrates on basic pronunciation and listening comprehension in North American English stressing features that will have the most significant impact on a student's ability to understand and communicate with others. These features include rhythm, stress, intonation, and speech sounds that carry specific grammatical meaning. The text presents these features through kinesthetic exercises and visual and auditory modeling, thus making them accessible even to beginners. Each Student's Book comes with a student Audio CD that contains roughly one third of the exercises included in the class audio program.

Clear Speech, Second Edition, is a highly successful and innovative pronunciation course for intermediate and advanced students of English. The Teacher's Resource Book contains an overview of the book, and contains invaluable, creative ideas for presenting the teaching points, as well as theoretical background. In addition, it contains a suggestions for additional activities, and an exercise answers.

3 class audio CD's ; teacher's resource manual with accompanying audio CD ; student's book with accompanying audio CD.

Practice exercises to be used in conjunction with the accompanying audio cd.

Provides students with practice in pronunciation and listening comprehension from individual sounds to stretches of continuous speech. Gives a practical approach to the intonation, stress, and rhythm of Norrh American English.

Clear Speech from the Start gives beginning students immediate help in mastering the crucial elements of English pronunciation. The audio program for Clear Speech From the Start includes a broad selection of exercises recorded by a variety of speakers in natural-sounding speech. The program is also available on Audio CD.