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Vowel and Consonant Sounds
Melody Noll, self-published, 2001
Melody Noll’s pronunication guides are full of useful, everyday examples, communicative games and activities, drawings and photographs, tips to help you with the correspondence between sound and spelling, and cool tricks to help you master tricky sounds. Available from Amazon.
Clear Speech
Judy Gilbert, Cambridge University Press, 2005
The Clear Speech series provides useful pronunciation exercises for learners of all levels from beginning to advanced. Study is focused on features of English speech such as rhythm, stress and intonation. Students are engaged with the material through kinesthetic exercises and activities contained within the accompanying audio CD. Available from Amazon.
Ship or Sheep?
Ann Baker, Cambridge University Press, 2006
This text is geared toward intermediate-level students who wish to refine their pronunciation skills through activities such as guided conversations and dialogues. The author emphasizes certain minimal pairs to encourage good pronunciation habits and listening skills. This course contains 4 audio CDs for use in the classroom or at home. Available from Amazon.
Pilgrims: Pronunciation Book
Tim Bowen, Longman Publishers, 1993
This book offers a range of confidence-building activities which can be incorporated into all types of lessons, at all levels, without the need for specialist training. It encourages learners to increase their awareness of sounds and to identify their own pronunciation targets. Available from Amazon.
Sounds Great books 1 & 2
Beverly Breisbier, Heinle & Heinle Publishers, 1995
Sounds Great focuses on increasing intermediate learner's intelligibility in English. It teaches learners to discover recognize and use American English word and sentence stress intonation patterns and high frequency vowels and consonants. Available from Amazon.
English Pronunciation Made Simple
Paulette Dale & Lillian Poms, Pearson ESL Publishers, 2004
With a friendly writing style and abundant illustrations, Pronunciation Made Simple (formerly English Pronunciation for International Students) helps students understand and achieve the pronunciation patterns of native English speakers. Available from Amazon. |