© Aira Celt) and video eons ere) I hheks Accent Helen Ashton oe i & Sarah Shepherd , mContents How to use this book Language groups SectionA Getting started Accent softening The need for mirror practice What accent will I learn? The anatomy of speech Why use the IPA? SectionB =‘ The sounds of English The consonant sounds 1 PET&BET /p/ and /b/ 2 TO&DO /t/ and /d/ 3. COT&GOT {k/ and /g/ 4 ME /m/ 5 NO in] 6 SING /n/ 7 SOON &ZOOM Is/and /z/ 8 FAST & VAST If/ and /v/ 9 CHOKE & JOKE Itf/ and /d3/ 10 THIN & THIS /8/ and /8/ 11 SHINE & TREASURE IS} and /3/ 12 LOVE ih 13 HILL itl 14 HELLO /h/ 15 YES jl 16 WEEK /w/ 17 ROCK hf 18. The spoken and the silent r The vowel sounds 19 LETTER, COMMA [al 20 NURSE [33/ 21 KIT [tf 22 SHEEP Tit 23. DRESS Je/ 24 CAP. /e/ 25 CUP [al 26 BATH fax/ 27 FOOT [ov] 28 GOOSE /uz/ 29 LOT /o/ 30 THOUGHT J>:/ 4 6 7 1 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 32 34 36 38 40 42 44 46 48 50 52 54 56 58 60 62 64 66 68 70 74Diphthongs in RP 31 GOAT /20/ 32 MOUTH /evu/ 33. FACE Jet/ 34 PRICE In] 35 CHOICE Jor) 36 NEAR /t9/ 37 HAIR Jea/ 38 CURE /va/ Section C Connecting your speech Connecting your speech 39. Changing sounds 40. Linking sounds 41 Contractions Section D RP rhythm Finding the rhythm of RP 42_ It’s not what you say, but the way that you say it 43. The roller coaster of English speech 44 Intonation in action 45. Arising tone 46 Afalling tone 47 Why is stress so important? 48 The schwa 49 Word stress 50. Irregularities in word stress 51. Sentence stress 52 Combining the stresses Section E Practice exercises Section F Appendices Appendix 1 Spelling patterns of unstressed sounds Appendix 2 The spoken and the silent r~ a quick guide Appendix 3 Suffixes and word stress Answer key Note to teachers What next? Glossary 78 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 91 92 94 95 97 98 100 102 104 106 108 110 112 114 17 120 124 142 144 145 146 147 148 150