Living English Speech [antikvár]

WHAT THIS BOOK IS ABOUT This 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 appropriate to the standard of the class can be worked through as part of the conversation or spoken English hour, preceded where necessary by a blackboard exposition of the points to be practised. The teacher's notes and remarks are deliberately telegraphic and concentrated, and for that reason, if the teacher feels that they would prove helpful to the class, they should always be re-stated and elaborated before an exercise is done. Apart from the stress exercises with polysyllabic words, the vocabulary of even the advanced exercises is fairly simple (falling for the most part well within the range of the well-known Essential English series), so that little difficulty is experienced in switching from one group to another if the ability of any particular set of students seems to warrant it. As this book is intended for the use of all types of foreign students of English, and not only students