Improvisa Tu Ingles

Improve Your American English Accent
Charlsie Childs

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Introduction
understand and produce the accents of North American English speakers. The course consists of six sessions on three compact disks and this accompanying booklet, which parallels the information on the disks. Your are strongly encouraged to listen to each session a minimum of five times beforegoing on to the next session. Also try to listen to each session at least three times before you look at the corresponding text in this booklet. (Many times new language learners hear what they expect to hear; you may be surprised by what you learn when you don’t have expectations.) Although the recordings can be studied on their own, this written guide to the material covered in the audiosessions will help reinforce your understanding. It also serves as a quick reference to the tracks on the three CDs. In this guide, you will find summaries of the key instruction in each lesson, along with all the model words, phrases, and sentences to be repeated (marked by ). This booklet also provides the questions and answers to the main audio exercises on the recording, so do not look at thesesections until you have completed the relevant exercise on the recording (at least three times).

Improve Your American English Accent is an audio course designed to help non-natives

A quick review of grammar terms
(If you wish, there’s room for translations of these terms into your first language.) Parts of Speech: ________________________________ Noun: ____________________ A naming word; e.g.,man, woman, John, sun, country, life, action. Pronoun: __________________ A word that substitutes for a noun; e.g., it, that, I, you, us, ours. Infinitive:__________________ A word, usually preceded by to, that is used as a noun: e.g., to be, to go, to have, to work. Gerund: ___________________A word that finishes with –ing that is used as a noun: e.g., being, living, swimming, working.

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Singular: ________________ (one) Plural: ___________________ (more than one) Verb: _______________ Auxiliary Verb: ___________________ A word that works with the main verb in a phrase; e.g., am, is, are, was, were, been, do, does, did, have, has, had. Modal Auxiliary Verb: _____________________ A helping verb that gives us added information; e.g., can, could,might, should. Verb Forms: _______________________ E.g., forms of a regular verb: work, works, working, worked; forms of an irregular verb: take, takes, taking, took, taken. Adjective: ________________________ A word that describes a noun; it tells how many, which one, what kind; e.g., three, strange, little, old, blue. Present Participle: ___________________ A word that has a verb or gerund form butfunctions as an adjective; e.g., the man speaking, bleeding heart, sleeping giant. Past Participle: __________________ A word with a verb form (e.g., -ed, -en) that can function as an adjective; e.g., written contract; spoken word; baked potato. Adverb: _______________________ A word that describes a verb or adjective or another adverb; e.g., carefully, quickly, well, fast, very, quite, pretty.Preposition: ___________________________ E.g., of, in, on, at, with, to, from, between. Conjunction: ___________________________ E.g., and, but, however. Noun (or pronoun, gerund, or infinitive) Functions in a Sentence Subject of the Verb: ______________ E.g., Good health is important; it is important; exercising is important; to exercise is important; it is important to exercise.

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Object of the Verb: _________________ E.g., I want good health; I want it; I want to have good health; I enjoy having good health; I enjoy it. Object of the Preposition: _________________ E.g., Long life is the result of good health; long life is the result of it; exercise is an aid to good health; exercising is an aid to it.

Points of speech articulation

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