English Pronunciation Made Simple (with 2 Audio CDs)

by Paulette Dale and Lillian Poms

Book Overview

With a friendly writing style and abundant illustrations, Pronunciation Made Simple (formerly English Pronunciation for International Students) helps students understand and achieve the pronunciation... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0131115960
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Pearson Education ESL
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.9" x 0.7" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

CD 1 Missing

The CD 1, Lesson 1-25 is missing. I really need this CD, I don't know how to request. Hopefully seller see my review and please send it to me.

Excellent workbook for pronunciation practice

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, then after the reading, I go over the words with the student, and when there is a thematic problem (such as trouble with the letter p) I find the corresponding exercises and do some drill work with the student. Final comments: Each chapter has sufficient material for the drill work to be effective (as compared to some books that provide a few examples/exercises to illustrate the sound, but not enough to 'master' the sound). Also, I agree with the previous comment that the book is not really suitable for self-study (although the hints for common spellings for each sound are valuable and suitable for self-study).

Really simple

I purchased this book a month ago. It really helped me a lot, It has simple graphics for the different sounds and exercises well prepaid. I love this book.

Fast shipping as expecting

Delivery faster than i expected. 2 CDs included don't cover the whole exercises in the book. If you'd like to practice more, you need to buy another set of CDs. (about 3-4CDs excluding the first 2 coming with the book). Anyway, i bought it 'cause it's my clas material.

English Pronunciation Made Simple (2nd Edition)

Excellent book! It is easy and fun to use. You can Really improve your pronunciation. Must buy for foreign students.

Very helpful

I was pleasantly surprised to find out that this course is quite comprehensive actually - there are sections on vowels, stress and rhythm, consonants...I highly recommend it if you study on your own - you got everything you need here. Especially useful if you're confused with minimal pairs - sheep or ship, bad or bed and stuff like that. You'll get lots of practice and tips with these.