Living English Speech [antikvár]

WHAT THIS BOOK IS ABOUTThis book is designed for use in English classes for foreign students, its purpose being to present the basic principles of stress and intonation and to provide copious practical exercises. The vocabulary of the exercises is deliberately simple, many of them being quite suitable for students who have been learning for less than six months.This book is not a course in itself, but rather a graded set of supplementary exercises for providing practice in stress, rhythm and intonation at all stages of learning English. The notes and remarks are intended for the teacher, to acquaint him with the point of each exercise and suggest how it might be practised. Exercises appro-priate to the standard of the class can be worked through as part of the conversation or spoken English hour, pre-ceded where necessary by a blackboard exposition of the points to be practised.Apart from the stress exercises with polysyllabic words, the vocabulary of even the advanced exercises is fairly simple. As this book is intended for the use of all types of foreign students of English1 and not only students specializing in the language, it has not been written in a phonetic script. Examples and exercises are in the normál orthography apart from a few isolated instances, where a broad type of transcrip-tion (as found in Dániel Jones's Pronouncing Dictionary) is used. It would be an unnecessary obstacle to the average student if he had to learn to read a phonetic script fluently first. The diacritics necessary as a guide to the required stress or intonation have been added to a normál script, and by