Pronunciation Pairs Student's Book with Audio CD [Paperback]

Ann Baker (Author), Sharon Goldstein (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0521678080 | ISBN-13: 978-0521678087 | Publication Date: September 24, 2007 | Edition: 2

This new edition of a highly successful pronunciation text covers all of the speech sounds of North American English, as well as spelling, intonation, and stress. Pronunciation Pairs offers a variety of exercises and activities, from very controlled minimal pair and listening discrimination tasks to dialogs, games, puzzles, and guided conversations. The Pronunciation Pairs, Second Edition, Student's Book has updated dialogs, which include current and useful vocabulary. Hundreds of simple, clear illustrations help students understand the dialogs and vocabulary. An audio CD with selections from the complete class audio program is included in the back of the Student's Book.

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Book Description

The Pronunciation Pairs, Second Edition, Student's Book has updated dialogs, which include current and useful vocabulary. Hundreds of simple, clear illustrations help students understand the dialogs and vocabulary. An audio CD with selections from the complete class audio program is included in the back of the Student's Book.

Product Details

• Paperback: 200 pages
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 2 edition (September 24, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0521678080
• ISBN-13: 978-0521678087
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 7.9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #61,631 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars I Agree, the audio CD is useless!, October 18, 2010

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Unfortunately, I must have put this book in my cart before Mara Moreno posted her review. She is right; the CD contains a very small portion of the listening activities, and it seems the activities were chosen in such a manner as to be sure the ones a reader would most want are not included. The activities on the CD are not very useful. I bought the book to use with a student I tutor. Fortunately I purchased another book at the same time: Mastering the American Accent, by Lisa Mojsin. Mojsin's book is much more useful. It comes with four great CDs that cover all the listening exercises. Also, the Mojsin book addresses prosidy (although the word 'prosidy' is not used). Prosidy, the rhythm and melody of speech, is very important in English. The Mojsin book covers such prosidy concepts as thought groups, focus words, content words, and function words. If a student does not learn the proper English prosidy, he will not only have speech problems, but will also have problems understanding the spoken word. For instance, when tested, my student could hear no difference between "Is that Mr. Fogg?" and "is that mist, or fog?" Before purchasing Pronunciation Pairs, consider Mojsin's book.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars The Audio CD is useless, August 4, 2008

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Mara Moreno (Mexico City) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pronunciation Pairs Student's Book with Audio CD (Paperback)

I knew I was ordering "an audio CD with selections from the complete class audio program", but I never imagined the CD would just contain a few dialogs. Since I did expect the CD would contain most of the listening exercises and activities, I am very disappointed with this product.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Raves, March 7, 2009

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N. Hults-Rubin "Adult ESL Instructor" (Morristown, NJ) - See all my reviews
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I teach highly motivated, well-educated adult students at a Language Center in New York. I use Pronunciation Pairs with the intermediate level adults. Almost every student has purchased this book for their personal library. It's instructions are clear, exercises in listening, discrimination and practice are excellent. The layout is user friendly and appropriate for adults.