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Supplementary Pronunciation Lessons

For the Teacher

The following activities are intended to supplement the lessons in the Student’s Book
by providing more extensive information and practice about English pronunciation.
Stress, intonation patterns, and the linking of sounds are graphically shown in both the
examples and in the exercises to facilitate learning.

Each of these lessons is designed to be covered in one class period.

Below are the target pronunciation topics in the Supplementary Pronunciation Lessons.
Each topic is followed by the suggested point in the Top Notch Fundamentals Student’s
Book when these lessons can best be presented.

UNIT 1 Letters of the alphabet and their pronunciation

• After Exercise 2, Listening Comprehension, on page 8

UNIT 2 Rhythm and intonation

• Before Exercise 2, Rhythm and Intonation, on page 13

UNIT 3 Stress in compound nouns

• Exercise A: Before asking students to practice the pronunciation of the items in
Exercise 1, Vocabulary, on page 20
• Exercise B: After Exercise 2, Rhythm and Intonation, on page 21

UNIT 4 Word stress

• Before asking students to practice the pronunciation of the items in Exercise 1,
Vocabulary, on page 28

UNIT 5 Contractions and linking

• Before Exercise 2, Rhythm and Intonation, on page 37

UNIT 6 Stress in do / does

• Before Exercise 2, Rhythm and Intonation, on page 47

UNIT 7 Simple present tense endings and linking sounds

• After Exercise 4, Pronunciation, on page 56

UNIT 8 Rising and falling intonation in questions with alternatives

• Before Exercise 2, Rhythm and Intonation, on page 67

UNIT 9 Intonation in sentences and questions

• Before Exercise 2, Rhythm and Intonation, on page 77

UNIT 10 Unstressed syllables

• Before asking students to practice the pronunciation of the items in Exercise 1,
Vocabulary, on page 82

UNIT 11 Syllables in regular simple past tense verbs

• Exercise A: After Exercise 2, Pronunciation, on page 90
• Exercise B: After Exercise 1, Reading, on page 94

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UNIT 12 The sound of h

• Exercise A: Before asking students to practice the pronunciation of the items in
Exercise 3, Vocabulary, on page 98
• Exercise B: Before Exercise 2, Rhythm and Intonation, on page 99

UNIT 13 Could you . . . ?

• Exercise A: Before asking students to practice the pronunciation of the items in
Exercise 2, Vocabulary, on page 108
• Exercise B: Before Exercise 2, Rhythm and Intonation, on page 109

UNIT 14 Word stress

• Before asking students to practice the pronunciation of the items in Exercise 7,
Vocabulary, on page 113

Students can do the exercises either individually or in pairs.

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