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English Pronunciation in Use (Advanced)

English Pronunciation in Use (Advanced)

Acknowledgements

I would like to thank Frances Amrani for guiding the project, and Roslyn Henderson and Alyson Maskell for their invaluable suggestions and their attention to detail in editing the material.

I also wish to thank the following reviewers for their suggestions in the early stages of writing: Barbara Bradford, Kent, UK

lan Chitty, Melbourn, UK David Deterding, Singapore Amanda Lloyd, Cambridge, UK

Andrea Paul, Melbourne, Australia Dolores Ramirez Verdugo, Madrid, Spain

A number of people have provided inspiration and information, and also specific advice on the pronunciation of non-native English speakers. Thanks in particular to Richard Cauldwell, Frances Hotimsky, Philip King, Gerard O'Grady and Dorota Pacek. I have drawn extensively for information and ideas on a wide variety of teaching materials and reference works, and I acknowledge the part they have played in shaping the book. In particular, I wish to acknowledge Hahn, L. D. & Dickerson,

W. B. ( 1 999) Speechcraft: Workbook for academic discourse. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (Units 40 & 4 1 ) for the analysis of stress adapted for Unit 12.

At home, thanks to Ann, Suzanne, and David for their support and willingness to listen. Martin Hewings 2007

The author and publishers are grateful to the following for permission to reproduce copyrighted material in English Pronunciation in Use Advanced.

Jones, D. (2006) Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary, 1 7th edn. Edited by P. Roach, J. Setter and J. Hartman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary (2005), 2nd edn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Development of this publication has made use of the Cambridge International Corpus (CIC).

The CIC is a computerized database of contemporary spoken and written English, which currently stands at 1 billion words. It includes British English, American English and other varieties of English. It also includes the Cambridge Learner Corpus, developed in collaboration with the University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations. Cambridge University Press has built up the CIC to provide evidence about language use that helps to produce better language teaching materials.

Audio recording by James Richardson, AVP studios, London.

Illustrations by Jo Blake, Mark Draisey, Julian Mosedale and David Shenton. Cover design by Dale Tomlinson.

Designed and typeset by Kamae Design, Oxford.

About this book

English Pronunciation in Use Advanced gives students of English practice in pronunciation to help improve both speaking and listening. Although it has been written so that it can be used for self-study, it will work equally well in a class situation with a teacher.

It will be particularly useful for students whose English is adequate for most social, professional or educational purposes, but who want to work further on pronunciation to improve their understanding and ensure that they are easily understood both by native and non-native English speakers. The focus is primarily on improving pronunciation in communication rather than practising individual sounds' or words.

Organ isation

There are 60 units in the book. Each unit looks at a different .point of pronunciation. Each unit has two pages. The page on the left has explanations and examples, and the page on the right has exercises. The 60 units are divided into four sections.

•Section A introduces accents in different varieties of English, resources for independent study of pronunciation and differences between pronunciation in slow and fast speech.

•Section B is about pronunciation in words and phrases, including consonant clusters and stressed and unstressed syllables, and pronunciation of foreign words.

•Section C is about pronunciation in conversation, including how intonation contributes to meanmg.

•Section D is about pronunciation in formal settings, including professional contexts such as giving business or conference presentations.

After the 60 units there is a fifth section, Section E, which contains the following:

•Exercises to practise the phonemic alphabet

•Further practice of consonant clusters

•Further practice of word stress

•Glossary

•Further reading

At the end of the book there is a Key with answers.

To accompany the book, there is a set of five CDs, available separately or as part of a pack.

A CD-ROM is also available for use on a computer. On the CD-ROM additional practice exercises are provided on all of the units (different from those in the book). The CD-ROM can be bought separately or as part of a pack.

Additional equipment needed

A CD player is needed to listen to the recorded material that goes with this book. It will also be useful for students to have equipment to record their o wn voices.

The symbol . At indicates the CD track number for recorded material, i.e. CD A, track 1 .

English Pronunciation in Use Intermediate and

English Pronunciation in Use Advanced

It is not necessary to have worked on English Pronunciation in Use Intermediate (see Section E5 Further reading) before using this book. However, to practise pronunciation of particular letters and sounds, it is recommended that students use English Pronunciation in Use Intermediate, where additional practice of stress and intonation can also be found. Both books have the same format of explanations and examples on the left page and exercises on the right page in each unit

English Pronunciation in Use (Advanced)

Accents (1): Varieties of English

Although we commonly talk about 'English pronunciation' (including in the title of this book), obviously not all speakers of English pronounce it in the same way. Even between countries where English is the first language of the majority of the population there are considerable differences, and we can distinguish between the pronunciation of 'British English', 'American English', 'Australia n English', 'South African English', and so on.

Section E5 Further reading gives suggestions on where you can find more information about pronunciation in national and regional varieties of English.