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These five sentences are designed to give students broad pronunciation practice<\/strong>, including difficult consonants, vowel contrasts, diphthongs, consonant clusters, word stress, connected speech, and common problematic sounds such as \/\u03b8\/, \/\u00f0\/, \/\u0283\/, \/\u0292\/, \/t\u0283\/, \/d\u0292\/, \/r\/, \/l\/, \/v\/, \/w\/, and \/\u014b\/.<\/p>\n

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  1. The thoughtful manager thanked three colleagues for their valuable contributions to the project.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. She usually chooses fresh fruit, but this week she is drinking warm vegetable soup.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. The young engineer worked very carefully while checking the new equipment in the warehouse.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  4. Would you like to arrange a meeting with our regional sales manager on Thursday afternoon?<\/strong><\/li>\n
  5. Although the presentation was challenging, the enthusiastic team successfully answered every question from the audience.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Pronunciation features covered<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
    Sentence<\/th>\nMain pronunciation features<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
    1<\/strong><\/td>\n\/\u03b8\/, \/\u00f0\/, \/\u0283\/, \/v\/, consonant clusters, word stress<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    2<\/strong><\/td>\n\/\u0283\/, \/t\u0283\/, \/d\u0292\/, \/f\/, \/w\/, long vs. short vowels<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    3<\/strong><\/td>\n\/j\/, \/\u014b\/, \/r\/, \/l\/, \/k\/, \/w\/, consonant clusters<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    4<\/strong><\/td>\n\/w\/, \/d\u0292\/, \/r\/, \/m\/, \/\u03b8\/, connected speech and weak forms<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    5<\/strong><\/td>\n\/\u00f0\/, \/\u03b8\/, \/t\u0283\/, \/d\u0292\/, \/v\/, \/\u0283\/, \/\u014b\/, multisyllabic word stress<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

    For a pronunciation class<\/strong>, I would recommend having students practice each sentence at three levels: (1) individual sounds \u2192 (2) word stress \u2192 (3) connected speech and natural rhythm<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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    These five sentences are designed to give students broad pronunciation practice, including difficult consonants, vowel contrasts, diphthongs, consonant clusters, word stress, connected speech, and common problematic sounds such as \/\u03b8\/, \/\u00f0\/, \/\u0283\/, \/\u0292\/, \/t\u0283\/, \/d\u0292\/, \/r\/, \/l\/, \/v\/, \/w\/, and \/\u014b\/.   The thoughtful manager thanked three colleagues for their valuable contributions to the project…. Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ardian.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2016"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ardian.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ardian.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ardian.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ardian.id\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ardian.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2017,"href":"https:\/\/ardian.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2016\/revisions\/2017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ardian.id\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}