Table of Contents
Introduction: Read This First
Telephone Tutoring: Preliminary Diagnostic Analysis
Chapter 1 The American Sound
Pure Sound
Voice Quality
The American Speech Music
Four Main Reasons for Intonation
Can or Can’t?
Intonation and Attitude
Squeezed-Out Syllables
Syllable Stress
Complex Intonation
Phrasal Verbs
Chapter 2 Word Linking & Phrasing
Word Groups and Phrasing
Chapter 3 Cat? Caught? Cut?
The Miracle Technique
Chapter 4 The American T
Chapter 5 The American R
Chapter 6 The El
Chapter 7 Reduced Sounds
Grammar in a Nutshell
Chapter 8 Tee Aitch
Chapter 9 S or Z?
Telephone Tutoring: Mid-Point Diagnostic Analysis
Chapters 1–9 Review and Expansion
Chapter 10 More Reduced Sounds
Chapter 11 “V” as in Victory
Chapter 12 Tense and Lax Vowels
Chapter 13 The Ridge
The Verb Map
Chapter 14 Grammar in a Bigger Nutshell
Chapter 15 Practical Application
Chapter 16 Nasal Consonants
Chapter 17 Throaty Consonants
Telephone Tutoring: Final Diagnostic Analysis
Chapters 1–17 Review and Expansion
Nationality Guides
Chinese
Japanese
Spanish
Indian
Russian
French
German
Korean
Arabic
The American South
African Languages
Answer Key
ESL Teacher’s Guide
Index