Unit One English Phonemes

Exercise 1 Getting familiar with English phonemes

Exercise 2 English phonemes in words

Exercise 3 Homophones

Exercise 4 English phonemes in phrases

Exercise 5 Relaxation

Unit Two Sound Recognition Vowels Ⅰ

Exercise 1 Distinguishing confusing sounds:/？/,/i/,/e/and/？/

Exercise 2 Dictation

Exercise 3 Distinguishing confusing sounds in groups of words

Exercise 4 Identifying a word in the context of a sentence

Exercise 5 Distinguishing confusing sounds:/？/,/u/,/？/and/？/

Exercise 6 Dictation

Exercise 7 Distinguishing confusing sounds in groups of words

Exercise 8 Identifying confusing words in the underlined words

Exercise 9 Distinguishing teens from tens

Exercise 10 Relaxation

Unit Three Sound Recognition Vowels Ⅱ

Exercise 1 Distinguishing confusing sounds:/？/？/,/e/and/ei/

Exercise 2 Dictation

Exercise 3 Distinguishing confusing sounds in pairs of words

Exercise 4 Identifying a word in the context of a sentence

Exercise 5 Distinguishing confusing sounds:/？/,/ai/,/？/and/？/

Exercise 6 Dictation

Exercise 7 Identifying a word in the context of a sentence

Exercise 8 Identifying confusing sounds in the underlined word

Exercise 9 Identifying ordinal numbers

Exercise 10 Relaxation

Unit Four Sound Recognition Consonants Ⅰ

Exercise 1 Distinguishing confusing sounds:/s/,/？/,/？/and/t？/

Exercise 2 Dictation

Exercise 3 Distinguishing confusing sounds in groups of words

Exercise 4 Identifying a word in the context of a sentence

Exercise 5 Distinguishing confusing sounds:/f/,/v/,/s/and/z/

Exercise 6 Dictation

Exercise 7 Distinguishing confusing sounds in pairs of words

Exercise 8 Identifying a word in the context of a sentence

Exercise 9 Years and Dates

Exercise 10 Relaxation

Unit Five Sound Recognition Consonants Ⅱ

Exercise 1 Distinguishing confusing sounds:/v/,/w/,/l/and/n/

Exercise 2 Dictation

Exercise 3 Distinguishing confusing sounds in pairs of words

Exercise 4 Identifying a word in the context of a sentence

Exercise 5 Distinguishing confusing sounds:/n/,/？/d/and/？/

Exercise 6 Dictation

Exercise 7 Identifying a word in the context of a sentence

Exercise 8 Identifying the words containing:/d/or/？/

Exercise 9 Telephone Numbers

Exercise 10 Relaxation

Quiz Unit 1-Unit 5

Unit Six Consonant Clusters

Exercise 1 lnitial clusters imitation

Exercise 2 Hunting initial clusters

Exercise 3 Medial clusters imitation

Exercise 4 Final clusters imitation

Exercise 5 Hunting final clusters

Exercise 6 Matching definition

Exercise 7 Passage understanding

Exercise 8 Relaxation

Unit Seven Strong and Weak Forms

Exercise 1 Sentence dictation

Exercise 2 The weak form of determiners

Exercise 3 Dictation for verb forms

Exercise 4 The weak form of special verbs

Exercise 5 The weak form of pronouns

Exercise 6 The weak form of conjunctions and prepositions

Exercise 7 Testing your ears

Exercise 8 Relaxation

Unit Eight Incomplete Plosion

Exercise 1 Imitating incomplete plosives

Exercise 2 Sharpening up your ears

Exercise 3 Getting acquainted with incomplete plosives(Plosive+Fricative/Affricate)

Exercise 4 Taking a dictation of phrases

Exercise 5 Getting familiarized with incomplete plosives(Plosive+Nasal/Lateral)

Exercise 6 Taking a dictation of words and expressions

Exercise 7 Testing your ears

Exercise 8 Relaxation

Unit Nine Assimilation andElision

Exercise 1 Historical assimilation Ⅰ

Exercise 2 Historical assimilation Ⅱ(Coalescent assimilation)

Exercise 3 Contextual assimilation

Exercise 4 Sentence dictation

Exercise 5 Sharpening up your ears

Exercise 6 Spotting differences

Exercise 7 Dictation for elision

Exercise 8 Spotting silent-letters

Exercise 9 Relaxation

Unit Ten Liaison

Exercise 1 Taking a dictation of sentences

Exercise 2 Linking final consonant with initial vowels

Exercise 3 Imitating"r"liaison

Exercise 4 Sharpening up your ears

Exercise 5 Linking final vowels with initial vowel sounds

Exercise 6 Spotting liaison

Exercise 7 Testing your ears

Exercise 8 Getting acquainted with liaison

Exercise 9 Relaxation

Quiz Unit 6-Unit 10

Unit Eleven Sense Groups and Pausing

Exercise 1 Marking pauses in sentences

Exercise 2 Marking pauses in a passage

Exercise 3 Punctuating a proverb

Exercise 4 Spotting pauses

Exercise 5 Pauses and imitation

Exercise 6 Passage understanding

Exercise 7 Relaxation

Unit Twelve Word Stress and Sentence Stress

Exercise 1 Marking the stressed syllables

Exercise 2 Identifying differences

Exercise 3 Marking the stressed words

Exercise 4 Marking the stressed words in a poem

Exercise 5 Poem appreciation

Exercise 6 Relaxation

Unit Thirteen Stress Shifts

Exercise 1 Spotting stress

Exercise 2 Stress distinction

Exercise 3 Identifying stress

Exercise 4 Stress application

Exercise 5 Matching stress patterns

Exercise 6 Relaxation

Unit Fourteen Rhythm

Exercise 1 Spotting longer vowels in each pair

Exercise 2 Liaison revision

Exercise 3 Experiencing rhythm

Exercise 4 Identifying rhythm

Exercise 5 Identifying stress patterns

Exercise 6 Rhythm appreciation

Exercise 7 Relaxation

Unit Fifteen Intonation Ⅰ

Exercise 1 Experiencing intonation

Exercise 2 Intonation distinction

Exercise 3 Intonation identification

Exercise 4 Intonation application

Exercise 5 Intonation appreciation

Exercise 6 Dictation

Exercise 7 Relaxation

Unit Sixteen Intonation Ⅱ

Exercise 1 Spotting stress

Exercise 2 Identifying meaning

Exercise 3 Intonation implication

Exercise 4 Intonation application

Exercise 5 Relaxation

Quiz Unit 11-Unit 16

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