Unit 1 Introduction

1-1 Course Description

1-2 Description of English Speech Sounds

1-3 Physiology of speech sounds

Achievement Test 1

Unit 2 Vowel

2-1 Description of Vowels

2-2 Description of English Monophthongs

2-3 Front vowels

2-4 Back Vowels

2-5 Central Vowels

2-6 Diphthongs

2-7 Diphthongs

2-8 Summary & Achievement Test

Achievement Test 2

Unit 3 Consonants

3-1 Description of Consonants

3-2 Plosives

3-3 Nasals

3-4 Fricative

3-5 Affricates

3-6 Approximants

3-7 Summary & Achievement tests

Achievement tests 3

Unit 4 Sounds and Spelling

4-1 English spelling system

4-2 Vowel letters

4-3 Consonant letters

4-4  Summary & Achievement test

Achievement tests 4

Unit 5 Syllables and Consonant Clusters

5-1 Syllables

5-2 Syllabic consonants

5-3 Syllable types

5-4 Consonant clusters

5-5 Syllabification

5-6 Achievement test

Achievement test 5

Unit 6 Word Stress and Vowel Reduction

6-1 Word stress

6-2 Vowel reduction

6-3 Pitch patterns of a word

6-4 Placement of word stress

6-5 Stress of compounds

6-6 Achievement tests

Achievement tests 6

Unit 7 Sentence Stress & Weak Forms

7-1 Sentence stress (I)

7-2 Sentence stress (II)

7-3 Weak forms

Achievement tests

Unit 8 Connected Speech

8-1 Rhythm (I)

8-2 Rhythm (II)

8-3 Linking

8-4 Assimilation

8-5 Elision

8-6 Achievement test

Achievement tests 8

Unit 9 Intonation

9-1 Tonality-the Division of the Intonation Phrase

9-2 Tonicity-the placement of Nuclear Syllable (I)

9-3 Tonicity-the placement of Nuclear Syllable (II)

9-4 Tone-the Selection of Nuclear Tone (1)

9-5 Tone-the Selection of Nuclear Tone (2)

9-6 Tone-the Selection of Nuclear Tone (3)

9-7 Tone-the Selection of Nuclear Tone (4)

Achievement tests 9

Unit 10 Pitch Contour

10-1 The Components of the intonation phrase

10-2 Pitch contour of prenuclear segment

10-3 Pitch contour of nuclear segment

10-4 Pitch contour of the whole intonation phrase

10-5 Achievement tests

Achievement tests