CONTENTS

Unit 1．Characteristics of English Sounds

1.1 The Articulatory Characteristics of Vowels

1.2 The Articulatory Characterislics of Consonants

1.3 List of Phonetic Symbols

1.4 Positions of the English Speech Organs

1.5 Positions of the English Vowels

1.6 Chart of the English Consonants

Unit 2．The Vowel Sounds

2.1 Comparison of Vowels

Unit 3．The Consonant Sounds

Unit 4．Length，Sound Linking Assimilationi and Weakening of the English Sounds in Practical Usage

4.1 Length

4.2 Sound Liuking

4.3 Assimilation

4.4 Weakening

4.5 Exercise

Unit 5．Stress and Rhythm

5.1 Words Stress

5.2 Sentence Stress

5.3 Cases with No Stress

5.4 The Rhythm of Sentences

5.5 Exercises

Unit 6．Intonation

6.1 A Brief Analysis of English Intonation

6.2 Falling Tune

6.3 Risirrg Tune

6.4 The Treatment of Parentheises

6.5 Emphatic Sentences

7.1 Sentences of Different Types

Unit 7．Practice Materials

7.2 Practice Dialogue

Caroline Arrives

The Folk Music Concert

An Outing to Brighton

Out Shopping

On the Telephone

Doctor Metcalfe

Trouble For Michael at University

A Rehearsal of Oscar Wilde's “The Importance of Bei g Earnest”