Cambridge Clear Speech Pronunciation and Listening Comprehension in North American English

Cambridge Clear Speech Pronunciation and Listening Comprehension - the world's favorite pronunciation series, helps students master the most important features of spoken English. The world’s favorite pronunciation series helps students master the most important features of spoken English. By emphasizing stress, rhythm, and intonation, this series ensures that students learn to speak clearly. In addition, students study practical spelling rules, which allow them to pronounce new words correctly.
It provides learners with visual representations of important pronunciation features, such as voicing and syllable length. It also includes a greater emphasis on listening recognition, expanded coverage of vowel sounds, and a new appendix with additional exercises on consonant sounds and advanced-level exercises for higher-level classes. The student’s book contains an audio CD, so students can complete and practice many of the exercises on their own.

* Hundreds of exercises, now in full color, help students comprehend what they hear and communicate more clearly
* A focus on the most important concepts makes the best use of class time and builds student confidence
* Every teaching point is designed not only to help intelligibility but also to improve listening comprehension

Clear Speech is a highly successful and innovative pronunciation text for intermediate to high-intermediate students of English. It focuses on those features of English pronunciation that contribute the most to intelligibility – rhythm, stress, and intonation – as well as on individual speech sounds that carry important grammatical meaning, such as the plural “s” for English nouns and past tense “d” for verbs. Pronunciation and listening comprehension for learners of English. Speaking Clearly aims to help intermediate and advanced learners of English overcome problems of understanding and being understood by other speakers of English. It integrates pronunciation and listening; provides systematic ear-training and practice from individual words and sounds to longer stretches of speech; contains diagnostic tests and explains phonological features in clear, non-technical terms.