Project Description
Elementary Level
- Consonant overview
- Word endings: plurals and present tense.
- Word endings: past tense.
- Consonant groups.
- Strong stress and secondary stress in words.
- Weak syllables in words.
- Stress in compound nouns and numbers.
- Strong words and weak words in sentences.
- Contractions.
- Rising and falling intonation.
Intermediate Level
- Beginning and final consonants.
- Past tense endings.
- Beginning consonant clusters.
- Final consonant clusters.
- Stress in words overview.
- Stressed syllables; vowel length; vowel reduction.
- Parts of speech; suffixes; numbers.
- Compound nouns; noun-verb pairs.
- Content and function words; thought groups.
- Highlighting important words.
- Reduced words.
- Contractions and reductions of verbs.
- Rhythm patterns of prepositions.
- Rising and falling intonations.
- Other uses of intonations.
Advanced Level
- Beginning and final consonants; joining final consonants.
- Beginning consonant clusters.
- Final consonant clusters; joining final consonants.
- Syllables and stress in words overview.
- Primary and secondary stress ; unstressed syllables; movable stress.
- Predicting stress; parts of speech and suffixes.
- Stressed and unstressed words.
- Highlighting.
- Thought groups.
- Rhythm patterns and personal pronouns.
- Rhythm patterns: articles.
- Rhythm patterns: prepositional phrases.
- Rhythm patterns: phrasal verbs.
- Contractions and reductions of verbs.
- Final intonation patterns.
- Listing intonation; rising intonation on question words.
- Contrastive stress; non final intonation.
