Phonetic symbols i asin see (sis 3: asin fur /fs:(r)/ 1 asin sit /sit/ 3 asin ago /o'goo/ ¢ asin ten /ten/ et asin _ page /peids/ asin hat /het/ 296 asin home /houm/ @: asin arm /a:m/ av asin five /fawv/ basin got /got/ av asin mow /nav/ 3 asin saw /so:/ or asin join /dgomn/ & asin put /pot/ 12 asin ear /nta(cy/ u: asin too /tu/ ca asin hair /hea(r)/ a asin cup /kap/ ua asin pure /pjva(ry i asin happy /hepi/ p asin pen /pen/ 8 asin 0 /sou! b asin bad /bed/ z asin 200 /zu;/ 1 asin tea /ti/ $ asin she /fiy d asin did /did/ 3 asin vision /'vign/ k asin cat /ket/ h asin how /haw/ g asin got /gol m asin man /men/ tf asin chin /t{m/ n asin no /nau/ ds asin June /dsu:n/ p asin sing /sin/ f asin fall /fV/ 1 asin leg fleg/ v asin voice /vos/ r asin red /red/ @ asin thin /Om/ j asin yes /jes/ 3 asin — then /oen/ w asin wet /wetfUpper-intermediate New Pronunciation Course Bill Bowler Sarah Cunningham OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESSContents Introduction 4 Unitt Unit 4° Sounds and spelling Sounds and spelling 1. The sounds fir, /v, and sav 6 1 The sounds fai, /o:7, and /o! 8 2 The silent -¢ rule 7 2 Pronunciation of the letter 0 B Connected speech Connected speech 3 Pronouns and verbs in fast speech 7 3 Sentences with and without the indefinite Intonation article 9 4 Hellos and goodbyes 8 Intonation and sentence stress Word focus 4. Wh- questions with up intonation 20 5 Word families, stress, and the sound /a/ 9 Word focus 5 Homographs a Unit2 ‘Sounds and spelling ‘ 1 The sound Ay’ and linking /w/ and jj’ 10 ‘Sounds and spelling 2 Silent letter u 1 ‘Dark’ Vand ‘clear’ il! 2 Conneeted speech 2 Silent letter? 3 3 Strong and weak forms of prepositions Connected speech in questions and answers u 3 Linking with and in common phrases 3B {ntonation and sentence stress. Stress and intonation 4 Exclamations bP 4 Special stress of ith countable and uncoutable noun: with countable and uncoutable nouns Word focus Word focus & Words ending in -ion 25 5 Stress in phrasal verbs, B Unit 6 o Unt3:. Sounds and spelling Sounds 1 The sound /y/ (and /n/, /ng/, /nh/, and ‘nd3/) 26 1 The sound /r/in British and American 2 Silent letters g, k, and 27 English i“ Connected speech Connected speech 3. Unpronounced plosives (/d, ’/,/g/, 1, pl, 2 Linking with book and film titles B and /k/) a7 intonation . Intonation and sentence stress 3 Rising and falling intonation in questions 5 4 Sentence phrasing Word focus with defining and non-defining relative clauses 28 4 Stress in compound adjectives, 16 Word focus 5 Opposites with diss, i, imine, rand un- 17 5 -ed adjectives + /d/, /U, and /id/ (and exceptions) 29