Chris Black

Excellent workbook for pronunciation practice, July 27 2008

I volunteer as an English tutor and find this book invaluable for accent reduction exercises. I tend to use the diagnostic exercises (for vowels, consonants, consonants clusters, sentence stress) in the back of the book to identify the most important problem areas and then choose the corresponding chapters for drill work.

Example diagnostic sentences for the letter p: Pick up a pack of ripe apples. Mom will bake apple pie for supper.

Example drill work for the letters b and p: robe/rope, mob/mop, tab/tap, rib/rip, stable/staple, symbol/simple (one exercise out of 7 pages for b and p).

Additionally, during 'read aloud' sessions, I note mispronounced words,… Read more