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Table of Contents

Introduction 01

Session 1 R and W………………………………………………….. 03

Session 2 Voicing, S and Z ……………………………………… 08

Session 3 TH, Voiced T………………………………………….. 11

Session 4 F and V, Sh and Voiced SH……………………….. 15

Session 5 L………………………………………………………….… 20

Session 6 Word Endings…………………………………………. 24

Session 7 DG and Ch, H………………………………………… 27

Session 8 Vowel Overview, I and EE………………………… 32

Session 9 OW and AE……………………………………………. 35

Session 10 OO, UH, EH………………………………………….. 38

Session 11 AU, AH, A……………………………………………… 41

Session 12 Tongue Twisters………………………………………. 44

Session 13 Phrase Reductions, Intonation…………………... 46

Session 14 Reading Passages……………………………………… 50

Session 15 Reading Passages……………………………………... 52

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Welcome!

Congratulations! You are about to embark on a very exciting program. Learning

to speak English clearly, with proper pronunciation is the single most important

skill you must have to communicate eectively in today’s world market. e

Pronunciation Workshop Video Training Program will enhance your English

speaking abilities and vocal skills, improve your self-condence and will greatly

increase your chances for success.

is course is based on years of linguistic research and has produced dramatic

results for thousands of individuals around the globe. It is designed to help you

sound “more American” for oral presentations, interviews, teaching, business

situations, telephone conversations and general daily communication.

When a person learns English as a Second Language, they are speaking English

“ltered” through their rst language. ey are using their native language’s

“speech rules” of pronunciation (and oen grammar) on their new language…

ey are not aware of the American set of “speech rules”. is is basically what

the Pronunciation Workshop program teaches you… “e Speech Rules of

American English”.

ere are many schools and classes which teach English all around the world;

however, very few of them address the “speech rules” that you will learn in this

course. is is because many of the teachers who are providing English training,

do not know of these “speech rules”. Many of them are even making errors

themselves and teaching them to you! We hear this daily from our clients.

When you were a child and learned your rst language, you constructed a mental

inventory of your native language’s speech sounds. ose sounds became a part

of your speech repertoire. Unfortunately, you are now inserting these speech

sounds into your English. Today, when you speak English, you reach into that

inventory and come out with many substitute sounds, something that is close,

but nonetheless incorrect. ese repeated errors in conversation oen cause you

to be misunderstood.

Some people call what we do “Foreign Accent Reduction”…this is not quite

accurate, for you are not reducing your foreign accent...you are actually gaining

an American Accent - - you are adding new sounds and new “speech rules” to

your speech inventory.

While you progress through this program, you will be learning things you were

never aware of before. You most likely will nd yourself saying, “Wow! I never

INTRODUCTION

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knew that!” Changing your old speech habits takes time. At rst you may

possibly be apprehensive using the learned techniques. However, eventually you

will relax and the words and sounds will ow smoothly and clearly on their own.

Once you complete each session, it should not be your objective to start speaking

dierently right away. Your focus should be on listening to the sounds of your

speech and the speech of those around you. For example, when you say “Tank

you” instead of “ank you”, your focus should not be on saying it correctly…but

rather, “Oops – I just said that word wrong…I should have used a TH sound”. It is

this AWA R ENE S S that will eventually lead you to the improved pronunciation

skills you are striving for.

Each video training session has its own accompanying chapter in this manual

with practice material. You will notice during the video classes that I oen speak

slowly and exaggerate certain target sounds. I do this purposely so that you

can ‘hear’ and understand what I am teaching you. I recommend that you try

practicing the material a little everyday using the learned techniques. Practice

speaking VERY SLOWLY, out loud, in a strong voice and exaggerate the mouth

movements. You will be retraining the muscles of your mouth and tongue to

move in new and dierent ways while mastering your new pronunciation

patterns. eoretically, once you understand the concepts and have retrained

yourself, eventually these new speech patterns will progress into your own

spontaneous conversational rapid speech.

To receive maximum benets, we recommend that you take our course over a

period of two to three months, focusing on one session per week. Try to practice

daily with the videos.

e program you are about to begin was created to help people “sound American”

for the purposes of teaching, interviewing, lecturing, business and general

daily communication. Although America has many regional pronunciation

dierences, the accent you will learn is that of standard American English as

spoken and understood by the majority of educated native speakers.

Changing your old speech habits takes time. At rst, the information presented

on the videos may seem unusual, but eventually, you will see that these techniques

will transform your speech, providing you with clearer, more intelligible English

speaking abilities.

Good Luck and have fun! I hope you enjoy this program as much as I enjoy

teaching it!

Paul S. Gruber MS, CCC-SLP

Speech Language Pathologist

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This session covers:

Consonant ‘R’

Consonant ‘W’

Two things to remember

when making an American ‘R’ sound…

• Your mouth and lips come forward, like you are going to kiss.

• Your tongue moves back in your mouth, NOT forward.

‘R’     

Rock

Rip

Reach

Road

Rain

Rich

Rome

Raise

Robe

Rice

‘R’         

Car

Far

Star

Door

Bear

Four

Air

Year

Turn

Poor

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‘R’     

Ve r y

Direction

Arrange

Erase

Correct

Marry

Garage

Original

Hurry

Zero

Marine

Berry

Operation

Caring

Arrive

Everyone

‘R’ S

e round rooster rushed into the wrong road.

R’ B

Remember…

•‘R’ is the strongest sound of the blend.

•When the blend is at the beginning of a word, your mouth prepares

for the ‘R’, by coming forward before you even say the word.

‘R’      

Training

Trust

Trip

Great

Tropical

Bring

Print

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President

Product

Cracker

Crawl

Break

‘R’      

Subtract

Waitress

Nutrition

Australia

Introduce

Compress

Oppression

Betray

‘R’  

- e story he read on the radio was incorrect.

- Her career in the law rm is permanent.

- Richard and Brooke took a ride in their brand new Range Roer truck.

- Everyone will respect the Royal Family when they arrive at the airport.

- e trip to the Rocky Mountains will be rescheduled on Friday.

C ‘W’

Practice rst with » ‘OO’

then go into » ‘OOOOOWAWAWA’

Remember, A “W” is always makes a “W” sound.

It NEVER makes a “V” sound.

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‘W’ S

What will we do?

C ‘R’  ‘W’

Rick – Wick

Right – White

Remember, the ‘W’ sound is also at the

beginning of the words One and Once.

‘W’     

Why

Which

When

What

Wipe

Wish

Weight

Wing

‘W’     

Always

Away

Beware

Rewind

Awake

Someone

Halloween

Hollywood

‘W’  

- e wind om the west was very wet.(Notice very has a /v/ sound)

- We woke up and washed the white washcloth.

- We waited for the waitress to give us water.

- We had a wonderful time in Washington and Wisconsin.

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‘Q’  (   KW )

Question

Quiet

Queen

Qualify

Quit

Quebec

Quilt

Choir

P P

Word Review -

Ray

Russia

Dreamed

Roller Coaster

Grand Canyon

Arizona

Friend

Fred

Norway

Railroad

Traveling

Creative

Perfect

Construct

Everyone

Ray was born in Russia. He dreamed of building the perfect roller coaster at the

Grand Canyon in Arizona. He had a iend named Fred who lived in Norway.

Fred’s profession was designing railroad tracks and his career inoled traveling

around the world. Ray thought it would be perfect if Fred designed his roller

coaster ride. Fred was creative, brilliant and worked well with railroad tracks. He

would be the perfect engineer for the project. e ride took two years to construct

and was painted red and white. Everyone really wanted to ride the brand-new

roller coaster.

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This session covers:

Voicing

Consonant pairs

Consonant ‘S’

Consonant ‘Z’

V…

Is when your vocal cords are vibrating in your throat, creating a “buzzing

sound”.

Say “Ahhhh”

Can you feel the vibrations in your neck?

- all vowels are voiced

- some consonants are voiced, some are not

Paired Consonants:

Unvoiced Voiced Voiced

P » B

T » D

F » V

SH » ZSH

K » G

S » Z

T   S/Z 

is is easier than it looks!

Rule #1

If a word ends in a sound that is unvoiced (such as P,T,K,F), you add an

unvoiced /S/

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Examples:

1 cup, 2 cups

(the ‘p’ in cup is unvoiced, so you just add an unvoiced ‘s’)

1 cat, 2 cats

(the ‘t’ in cat is unvoiced, so just add an unvoiced ‘s’)

I break, he breaks

I stop, he stops

Rule #2

If a word ends in any of these sounds: ‘s,z,sh,ch,or dg (j)’

when adding an ‘S’ ending, add… IZZZZZZ

Examples:

1 Page 2 Pages

1 Bus 2 Buses

1 Lunch 2 Lunches

I Raise, He Raises

I Brush, He Brushes

I Push, He Pushes

Rule #3

If a word ends in a vowel sound (like the word Tree) or a voiced consonant (like

the word Game), then when you add an ‘S’, continue the voicing throughout

the entire word, and it should become a voiced ZZZZ.

Examples:

1 Tree, 2 Treezzzz (correctly spelled Trees)

1 Day, 2 Days

1 Shoe, 2 Shoes

I Fly, He Flies

1 Game, 2 Games

1 Head, 2 Heads

1 Train, 2 Trains

1 Song, 2 Songs

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Some common words where S’s are pronounced as Z’s

IS

HIS

AS

WAS

THESE

THOSE

EASY

BECAUSE

P P

If you have a color printer, notice that all oiced S/Z sounds are in the color Red to

help you remember to add oicing.

Another zippy, zappy, crazy day comes to a close. As we zoom up to Joe’s

snooze zone, Zoe Jones of Zodiac Zoo plays with her zipper.

Last week, Jim’s brothers were picked to represent their country in the Olympic

Games. Two of the brothers were swimmers, while the other two were long

distance runners. All of the brothers wore glasses. ese athletes worked hard

at qualifying for the games and were hoping to come home with prizes. Since

the brothers go to the same university, they oen take the same courses. is

makes studying easier and gives them more time to do other things.

On ursday, I had a very lazy day. I woke up early and rst squeezed oranges

into juice. I then got dressed and watched the sunrise come up over the

mountains. It was so beautiful that I took many pictures with my camera and I

used three rolls of lm. Aer drinking two cups of coee, I got dressed, le the

house, and walked three miles home.

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This session covers:

e Unoiced ‘TH’ Sound

e Voiced ‘TH’ Sound

‘THR’ Blends

Voicing the ‘T’ Sound

T ‘U TH’ S

Flat tongue protruding through your teeth. Maintain a steady air stream.

Stretch out the ‘TH’ sound.

Example:

ink of the word ‘umb” as having two beats

 » umb

1 2

‘TH’  

Beginning Middle End

anks Anything Bath

ick Bathmat North

under Toothpick Beneath

ursday Athletic Fourth

ink Mouthwash South

The ‘Voiced TH’ Sound

V ‘TH’     

e (e book)

at (at house)

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ey (ey came over)

em (Give them water)

ere (ere it is)

is (is is my nose)

ose (ose boys are good)

ese (ese are my parents)

V ‘TH’     

Clothing

Leather

Mother

Another

Weather

Northern

V ‘TH’     

Smooth

Bathe

Breathe

P P

is and that

A tablecloth

Winter clothing

Athens, Greece

at’s the one

Her skin is smooth

irty Day’s notice

A famous author

Here and there

False teeth

read the needle

A thoughtful gi

under and lightening

umbs up

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P S

- elma arrived in town last ursday.

- I’m having trouble threading this needle.

- I need 33 thick thermometers.

- e thing they like best about Athens is the weather.

- is thrilling novel was written by a famous author.

- He will be through with his work at three-thirty.

- Now and then, she likes to buy new clothing.

- ey thought they were going to Northern Spain.

- Which tablecloth shall we use for the party?

- at was the thirty-third theatre to open.

THR B

read “thread the needle”

row “throw the ball”

roat “my throat is sore”

rill “a thrilling ride”

ree “three more days”

rew “he threw the ball”

rone “the king sits on a throne”

P P

Nurse atcher was thankful it was ursday. She knew that on ursday she

had to deliver 33 boxes of thermometers to the North American Athletic Club.

ey thought that thermometers were necessary for testing the hydrotherapy

baths. is was thought to benet the athletes with arthritis. e athletic

trainers required authorization to provide hydrotherapy to the youthful

athletes on the three bulletin boards with thumbtacks throughout the athletic

club. Rather than risk the health of the athletes, they thoroughly checked the

thousands of thermometers to insure their worthiness; otherwise they needed

to be thrown away.

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“TH” E

Although the following words are spelled with a ‘TH’, they are pronounced as

a ‘T’:

omas

ompson

eresa

ailand

ames

Esther

yme

V  ‘T’ S

If a ‘T’ falls within two voiced sounds (usually vowels), the ‘T’ becomes voiced

like a ‘D’.

Examples:

Water » Wader (the whole word is voiced)

Better » Bedder

Butter » Budder

V ‘T’ P

Betty bought a bit of better butter.

But, said she,

is butter’s bitter.

If I put it in my batter,

It’ll make my batter bitter.

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This session covers:

Consonant ‘F’

Consonant ‘V’

e Unoiced ‘SH’ Sound

e Voiced ‘ZSH’ Sound

C ‘F’  ‘V’

Consonants ‘F’ and ‘V’ are produced with contact of your upper teeth and

lower lip. ink of it as “biting your lower lip”. Maintain a steady air stream.

ey are both identical, except the ‘F’ is unvoiced, and the ‘V’ is voiced.

Correct voicing will make your speech clearer and more intelligible.

P W  ‘F’

Foot

Find

Finally

Family

Freedom

Laugh

Telephone

Symphony

Rough

P S

Do you feel like a physical wreck? Are you fed up with your feeling of fatigue?

Have you had enough of feeling rough? Why don’t you ght fever with

Pharaoh’s Friend. A medicine that is tough on Flu.

P W  ‘V’

Vote

Vine

Oven

Evaluate

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Voice

Travel

River

Every

Glove

Alive

Leave

C ‘F’  ‘V’

Feel – Veal

Safe – Save

Fat – Vat

Fine – Vine

Face – Vase

Fan – Van

Foul – Vowel

Proof – Prove

P P

A famous athlete

A food vendor

e Foreign Service

Summer vacation

Vocabulary test

Over the rainbow

Our rst victory

Harvard University

Husband and wife

Very well done

P S

- Her promotion in the rm was well deserved.

- ere was only one survivor on the island.

- Steve noticed that the olive juice must have stained his sleeve.

- e street vendor was selling souvenirs to tourists.

- Dave gave me his car so that I could drive on New Year’s Eve.

- ere were several dents in the rear fender.

- Tom placed several tomatoes from the vine into a basket.

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T U ‘SH’ S

To make the Unvoiced ‘SH’ sound, bring your mouth and lips forward,

teeth should be slightly apart. Produce air stream. Words beginning with

‘SH” begin with this sound. (So are the words “Sugar”, “Sure”, “Chef” and

“Chicago”.)

‘SH’  

Beginning

She

Sugar

Sure

Shadow

Sheep

Shirt

Shoe

Shape

Chicago

Chef

Middle

Nation

Motion

Mission

Special

Reputation

Ocial

Machine

Fishing

Insurance

Sunshine

Ocean

Tissue

Addition

Subtraction

End

Rush

Dish

Establish

Splash

Irish

Fresh

Finish

‘SH’ S

- e shing trip was planned and we le to go to the ocean.

- Was the chef ashamed to use the precious sugar?

- Sharon gave a special performance.

- He will be stationed in Washington, D.C, the nation’s capital.

- She went to a fashion show aer taking a shower.

- She sells seashells by the seashore.

- e social club was praised for their cooperation.

‘SH’ P

Joe’s weather machine shows a sharp drop in air pressure, especially oshore.

Ships in motion on the ocean should be sure to use caution.

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T V ‘ZSH’ S

e Voiced ‘ZSH’ sound is exactly like the ‘SH’ except voicing is added. is is

an important sound in American English.

‘ZSH’  

Middle

Usual

Unusual

Usually

Vision

Visual

Conclusion

Asia

Version

Division

Casual

Television

End

Beige

Massage

Prestige

P S

- It’s not unusual for people to study division in Asia.

- I usually use a measuring cup to measure erosion.

- e beige walls were the usual color in the treasury building.

List things that are appropriate for each column. en say them out loud in

full sentences for practice.

Example: “It’s usually hot in the summer.”

“It’s unusual for me to be late for an appointment.”

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Usually Unusual

Hot in the summer Late for appointments

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This session covers:

Consonant ‘L’

ings to remember when making an American ‘L’ sound…

• Your bottom jaw should be as wide open as possible.

• Your tongue should RISE UP (independently of your jaw) and touch right

behind your top teeth.

• Produce the ‘L’ sound by dropping and relaxing your tongue.

• Practice “LA, LA, LA”, keeping your bottom jaw lowered and open while

only raising your tongue.

‘L’     

Lunch

Local

London

Learn

Large

Life

Lobby

Library

Lucky

Li

Laugh

Long

‘L’     

Ination

Believe

Volume

Glue

Elevator

Sole

Pulling

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Flood

Delete

Elect

Alive

Color

‘L’      

• To produce an ‘L’ at the end of a word, remember to slowly raise your tongue

upward, towards your upper teeth, while keeping your bottom jaw as open

as possible. e ‘L’ sound comes from the tongue movement, not from the

placement.

(Using your nger to push down on your bottom teeth to keep your jaw open,

may be helpful for practicing.)

P 

Will

Ball

Tall

Call

Small

Control

Bowl

Apple

Miracle

Powerful

Control

Financial

People

‘L’ S

- e lollipop fell into the cool water.

- Her driver’s license was pulled out of the blue golf bag.

- Blake’s bowling ball fell under his tools.

- Carl could not locate the lemons or the limes.

- e school was a mile away from the hill.

- e golf club was made of steel.

- Al’s goal was to play baseball with Carol.

- A certied letter was delivered for the enrollment list.

- It was revealing to look at the smiling lawyer.

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‘FL’ B P

A ea and a y, ew up in a ue.

Said the ea, “Let us y!”

Said the y, “Let us ee!”

So they ew through a aw in the ue.

P  ‘W’

Will you empty the garbage?

Will you ask her to clean the kitchen?

Will you prepare a meal for the children?

When will you begin your studies at college?

When will she purchase the dress for her wedding?

Why will he ask them to stay late at work?

Why will she bring her baby to the meeting?

How will they know if our ight is delayed?

Where will the child be going next year?

Where will they put all of the pillows?

What will she do with the millions of dollars she won?

C ‘R’  ‘L’

Red - Led

Rick - Lick

Reef - Leaf

Rear - Lear

Rest - Less

Grass - Glass

Crime - Climb

Free - Flee

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‘L’  ‘R’ C

seal ring

toll road

already

civil rights

railroad

rivalry

coral reef

jewelry

schoolroom

gravel road

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This session covers:

Word Endings

Make sure that the nal sounds in your words come through

clearly and fully. Don’t drop o or shorten the endings!

‘P’ 

- I hope the group will sleep on the ship.

- e soda pop spilled out of the cup, over the map and onto her lap.

- Was the Egg Drop Soup cheap?

‘B’ 

- We cleaned the cobweb from the doorknob in the bathtub.

- Rob broke his golf club when he slipped on the ice cube.

- e crab was under the cement slab at the yacht club.

- e ticket stub was found in the taxicab.

‘T’ 

- Kate le her cat on the mat as she ew a kite.

- e sailboat came into the port to join the eet.

- What bait will make the sh bite? A cricket or a piece of meat?

‘D’ 

- Fred will decide which sled should be painted red.

- David tried to send a refund back to England.

- He could not hide his report card behind the chalk board.

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Three rules for ‘–ED’ endings

Many verbs that are in the past tense, end in ‘–ed’.

(Example: “Today I walk, yesterday I walked”)

Rule #1

If a word ends in an unvoiced consonant, when adding ‘-ed’, just add an

Unoiced ‘T’

Example:

Today I jump, yesterday I jumped. (pronounced jump-T)

Today I walk, yesterday I walked. (pronounced walk-T)

Rule #2

If a word ends in a voiced consonant, add a Voiced ‘D’

Example:

Today I rub, yesterday I rubbed. (pronounced rub-D)

I cleaned the kitchen.

I poured the milk.

I scrubbed the oor.

I tagged the clothing.

I spilled some juice.

I trimmed the tree.

I moed to California.e clock buzzed all night.

Rule #3

If a word ends in a ‘T’ or a ‘D’ sound, we add a Voiced ‘ED’

Example:

Today, I li the ball. Yesterday, I lied the ball.

I heated up my dinner.

He oted this morning.

He handed me his report.

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I traded in my old car.

She added some information.

If you have a color printer, notice that all oiced ‘D’ endings are in the color

Red to help you remember to add oicing.

Bob raked the leaves and then started to wash his car. He then loaded up the

dishwasher and nished washing his dishes.

Susan spilled her drink on the spotted rug. She cleaned it up with a napkin,

which wasted a lot of time.

He thanked me and oered me money, if I picked up the used equipment.

3 N S

‘M’

‘N’

‘NG’

 – 

Ring Sing ing Bring

 

- I have a feeling that she is working too much.

- She has been wearing a hearing aid so that she could sing.

- He is looking forward to speaking at the anksgiving celebration.

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This session covers:

‘CH’ sound

‘e American J’ sound (DG)

Consonant ‘H’

CH – Unvoiced as in Ch-ur-ch

American J – Voiced as in J-u-dge

‘C’     

China

Cherry

Charge

Chocolate

Challenge

Cheese

Chunk

Chairman

‘C’     

Key chain

Lunch box

Richard

Picture

Teacher

Fortune

Nature

Beach ball

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‘C’     

Detach

Teach

Porch

March

Patch

Wrench

Coach

Approach

‘C’ 

Chop-chop, children, it’s Charlie’s Kitchen adventure!

Today, Chuck will be teaching future champion cooks how to make a

chocolate cheesecake.

‘A J’     

Juice

Jump

Juggle

Jury

Japan

Giant

Genetic

Junior

Generate

German

‘A J’     

Algebra

Legend

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Magic

Subject

Digest

Rejoice

Objective

Majesty

Educate

Suggestion

‘A J’     

Age

College

Postage

Stage

Pledge

Village

Average

Page

Courage

Knowledge

‘A J’ 

A German judge and jury have charged and jailed a strange giant, who

sat on the edge of a bridge throwing jelly onto large barges.

C ‘H’

When an ‘H’ is at the beginning of a word it is pronounced with a strong, loud

air-stream.

Practice:

Ha... Ha… Ha.

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‘H’     

Hand

Hide

Hope

Hair

House

Harvard

Honey

Happy

Who

Whole

‘H’  

Old- Hold

Is- His

It- Hit

At- Hat

Arm- Harm

Ill- Hill

Ate- Hate

As- Has

‘H’     

Ahead

Behave

Anyhow

Inhale

Downhill

Dehydrate

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Wholehearted

Overhaul

‘H’ 

He thought that he should….

wash the car.

thank his teacher.

watch television.

use the telephone.

shut the door.

breathe deeply. (Voiced TH)

tell the truth.

Henry the hungry hippo, who hogged a huge heap of one hundred

hamburgers, has had hiccups for one whole week.

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This session covers:

American English Vowels

Vowel ‘EE’

Vowel ‘I’

e best way to learn American vowels is by Ear Training.

Listen carefully and repeat.

F V: (From high to low)

EE - as in Heat

I - as in Hit

AE - as in Hate

EH - as in Het (nonsense word)

A - as in Hat

Back Vowels: (From high to low)

OO - as in Boot

U - as in Book

OW - as in Boat

AW - as in Bought

AH - as in Bot (nonsense word)

C H (EE)  H (I)

Remember,…

Heat is high

Hit is lower

Heat – Hit

Keen – Kin

Deal – Dill

Seek – Sick

Seen – Sin

Reap – Rip

Teal - Till

Bean –Been*

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* Bean – I ate a bean (noun). – ‘high’

Been – I have been here (verb). – ‘low’

‘EE’ V S …remember, smile and think high

See

Me

Each

Even

Key

Green

Tree

Ve ry

Happy

Soly

Mary

Busy

Finally

Country

‘EE’ P

Speeding on the Freeway

Happily eating cheese

He and She

Skiing very Rapidly

She sees a monkey eating honey. We see a pony stealing money. Who can

he see? It must be me!

‘I’ V S

Bit

Bill

Li

Fizz

Kitchen

Build

Bigger

Chimp

Fih

Listen

Business

Fist

Display

Filming

Live

Fish

Discuss

Fig

Fiy

Been

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‘EE’  ‘I’ P

(All ‘EE’ sounds are underlined.)

e beans have been cooking since six o’clock.

Sit in that seat by the window.

We ate our meal, by the mill.

e seal will live in the ocean.

Tim’s team grinned aer seeing the green eld.

Pip and Pete shipped the sheep cheaply.

ose bins are for Bill’s beans.

Does Jim still steal Jill’s jeans?

e girls put concrete on Jill’s sneakers.

Pick cherries at their peak or you will eat the pits.

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This session covers:

Vowel ‘OW’

Vowel ‘AE ’

V ‘O’

e Hidden ‘W’

“OWE, OWE, OWE, OWE, OWE”

‘O’ V S

Open

Oatmeal

Blown

Bold

Owner

Phone

Cold

Robe

Coach

Rotate

Loan

Slow

Road

Roam

‘O’ P

How did you know that?

I don’t know where the hole is on the coat.

Does Joe know how to drive on the road?

I need to blow my nose when I have a cold.

Has it ever snowed in Rhode Island?

Cold winds will slowly blow snow over most of Ohio.

is low is no joke. So folks, don’t go out without coats!

W  W’

Practice: WOWOWOWOWO

Woke = WOW + K

Won’t = WOW + ’NT

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I want the ball.

I won’t give you the ball.

She wants to sleep.

She woke up.

He wants to buy a car.

He won’t buy a car.

ey want to speak with you.

He won’t speak with you.

V ‘AE’

Age

Aid

Eight

Able

Chain

Date

Eighteen

Fake

Lazy

Made

Baby

Gain

Change

Gave

Nation

Day

Paper

Angel

Basic

Face

‘AE’ P

e ape gave the trainer a cane.

David began shaving when he was eighteen.

e rainbow appeared when daylight changed.

e baby snake lived in a painted cage.

My neighbor’s basement was changed om blue to beige.

Hey, take away the strain! Weigh the gains of a great break with Lazy

Day Vacations. Lines are open eight till late. ey aim to make your day!

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The 50 United States

(Stressed sounds are in bold)

Alabama

Alaska

Arizona

Arkansas

California

Colorado

Connecticut

Delaware

Florida

Georgia

Hawaii

Idaho

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

Kansas

Kentucky

Louisiana

Maine

Maryland

Massachusetts

Michigan

Minnesota

Mississippi

Missouri

Montana

Nebraska

Nevada

New Hampshire

New Jersey

New Mexico

New Yo rk

North Carolina

North Dakota

Ohio

Oklahoma

Oregon

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

South Carolina

South Dakota

Tennessee

Te xas

Utah

Ve r mont

Virginia

Washington

West Virginia

Wisconsin

Wyoming

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This session covers:

Vowel ‘OO’

Vowel ‘UH’

Vowel ‘EH’

‘OO’ V S

Blue

Booth

News

Juice

Loosen

Ruler

Food

Choose

Mood

Moving

Loop

Knew

Tooth

Smooth

Pool

Moon

Shoes

Zoo

Grew

Room

‘OO’ P

e room in the school was very cool.

Tuesday at noon in the studio.

Viewing the moon on June nights.

Do you remember the woman who lived in a shoe? She hadn’t a clue what

to do when her family grew. Well, through your help, they are moing in

June into two big boots.

‘D OO’      ‘UH’

Food has a high vowel – ‘OO’

Foot has a lower vowel – ‘Uh’

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‘UH’ V S (that are spelled with ‘OO’)

Foot

To o k

Cook

Shook

Stood

Good

Look

Book

Wool

Swoosh

L  – ‘U’

Wood

Would you help me?

Hollywood, California

‘UH’ P (‘OO’ sounds are in RED)

He took a good look under the hood and found a ute.

Julie enjoys good books aer school.

He put his foot in the new boot.

She took her students to the brook to wash their shoes.

We pulled him out of the swimming pool.

e fool ate until he was full.

‘EH’ V S

Egg

Get

Friend

Better

Healthy

Lettuce

Wrench

Spread

Best

Ready

Every

Red

Exit

Check

Fence

Headset

Necklace

Wealth

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‘EH’ P

Resting on the edge of the bed.

Ten letters om the enemy.

Dennis will enter the festival.

e message was given to the chef.

Hello again, iends! Let’s do a weather check. Well, whoever said

temperatures are getting better, better get ready to spend a wet weekend in

Tennessee.

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This session covers:

Vowel ‘A U ’ as in Out

Vowel ‘AH’ as in Top

Vowel ‘A’ as in Hat

‘A’ V S

Back

Dad

Fax

Value

Sat

Hatch

Jacket

Taxi

Apple

Catch

Rabbit

Tack

‘A’ P

e fat cat wore a jacket.

Pack your sack and bring your magnet.

He sang about an actor named Jack.

‘AU’ V S

is is an important sound! If mispronounced, it can oen make you

misunderstood.

Begin this sound with the ‘A’ sound as in ‘ h a t’…

en, slide your mouth forward to form a small ‘W’ sound.

Example:

‘Downtown’ » “DA – wn…TA – wn”

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‘AU’ P

Now

House

Round

Loud

Gown

Sound

Ouch

Out

Found

South

Ounce

Rebound

Mouth

Bounce

Flower

ousand

Spout

Count

e brown couch is downstairs.

Her house is on the South side of the mountain.

I was proud of the sounds that came out of my mouth.

‘A’ . ‘O’

Are – Close with strong ‘R’ sound - tongue retracts back

Are you going?

Our – Begin with the ‘AU’ sound (‘A’ as in Hat),

en close your mouth and say “We r e ”.

ink of the word ‘Our’ as having two syllables.

Pronounced as …“AU-WERE”

* (e word “Hour” is also pronounced the same way).

A/O P S

- Are you going to our house?

- Sales are down, but our projections for next year are very good.

- Our plans will be changing in the next hour.

- Are you sure that our meeting will be an hour late?

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‘AH’ V S

‘O’ words that are pronounced with ‘A H ’

Hot

To p

Stop

Probably

Follow

Not

Blob

Sock

Mop

Product

Solve

Problem

‘AH’ P

(‘A H ’ sounds are underlined)

Bob opened the box and followed the instructions.

To m put some cotton, rocks and a doorknob in his locker.

His mom made a concrete model of a hockey rink.

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This session covers:

Tongue Twisters

(F, W, V Z)

Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear,

Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair.

Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t fuzzy, was he?

(V V)

Vincent owed vengeance very viciously.

(P)

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.

If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,

How many peppers did Peter Piper pick?

(SH, S  Z)

She sells seashells by the seashore.

e shells she sells are surely seashells.

So if she sells shells on the seashore,

I’m sure she sells seashore shells.

(W, CH,  F C)

How much wood, would a woodchuck chuck

if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

He would chuck, he would, as much as he could,

and chuck as much wood as a woodchuck would

if a woodchuck could chuck wood.

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(W)

Which witch, wished which wicked wish?

While we were walking, we were watching window washers wash

Washington’s windows with warm washing water.

If two witches would watch two watches, which witch would watch which

watch?

(R)

Roberta ran rings around the Roman ruins.

(B, BR,  BL )

Bradley’s big black bathbrush broke.

(TH)

Tom threw Tim thirteen thumbtacks.

He threw three ee throws.

ere are thirty-three thousand birthdays on the third of every month.

e father gathered smooth feathers for anksgiving.

e sixth graders are enthusiastic about Jonathan’s birthday.

(GR,  GL )

Green glass globes glow greenly.

(L, ‘OO’ )

Aluminum, linoleum, aluminum, linoleum, aluminum, linoleum,

aluminum, linoleum.

(W’)

I would if I could! But I can’t, so I won’t!

(W)

I woke, he woke, she woke, they woke.

We all woke up.

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Phrase Reductions

Intonation

P R

(Going to try) becomes ‘gunna try’

I’m gunna try to nish this book.

(Want to eat) becomes ‘wanna eat’

Do you wanna eat at seven o’clock?

(Have to start) becomes ‘haa start’

I haa start a diet tomorrow.

(Has to try) becomes ‘hasta try’

He hasta try harder.

(Got to leave) becomes ‘gotta leave’

I gotta leave in een minutes.

(Ought to believe) becomes ‘oughta believe’

She oughta believe what he is saying.

(Out of bed) becomes ‘outa bed’

I got outa bed when I heard the alarm clock.

(Did you go?) becomes ‘Didja go’

Didja go to the store?

(Would he help?) becomes ‘Woody help’

Woody help me move the furniture?

(Won’t you play?) becomes ‘Wonc ha play’

Woncha play one more song on the piano?

(Didn’t you know?) becomes ‘Didincha know’

Didincha know that she was coming home tomorrow?

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(Is he?) becomes ‘Izzy’

Izzy the one that called?

(What do you want?) becomes ‘Whadaya_want’

(Give it to me.) becomes ‘GividaMe’

Gividame right away.

I P

Have you ever tried one of Diane’s Donuts? ey are so delicious. I have eaten

many dierent kinds of donuts, from all over the country; however, I have

never tasted anything, quite like Donuts made by Diane. I have been told that

she uses the nest and freshest ingredients that money can buy. e best our,

the best eggs and the best milk. I am sure, that once you taste these incredible

donuts, you will run and tell all of your friends.

S S

Generally, two-syllable words have stress on the rst syllable.

T-S W ( 1



)

Sofa

Oven

Aer

Finger

Station

Second

Enter

Oen

Uncle

Carpet

Father

Children

Walking

Jacket

Lucky

Comment

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T-S W ( 2 )

Delete

Decline

Survive

Protect

Adopt

Advance

Below

Resolve

Advice

Acquit

Control

Arrive

Involve

Massage

Disease

Relate

Generally, three-syllable words have stress on the second syllable.

T-S W ( 2 )

Reduction

Arrangement

Audition

Companion

Detective

Ambitious

Companion

Appliance

Discover

Unlawful

Conclusion

Assemble

Adjustment

Aected

Acceptance

Ferocious

S S P

e pictures are fantastic.

He needs permission to nd a solution.

e party is in honor of his retirement.

Her son exhibited bad behavior on their vacation.

C S

Joe drinks cheap wine.

Sue only drinks expensive wine.

Don’t forget his birthday.

We would never forget his birthday.

She’s planning to leave tomorrow.

He made plans to leave a month ago.

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e Teacher’s meeting is at 9:00.

e students announced that they will never have a meeting.

My telephone isn’t working.

e telephone needs to work by lunchtime.

He’s painting his house blue and green.

Your house would look terrible if it were green.

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Putting it all together – Part I

e 10 Key steps towards Improement

P 

Keeping a family photograph album is a good way to save family memories for

yourself and future generations of your family. Very old pictures can be taken

to a photo shop and reprinted so that they can be placed in an album. Be sure

to write on the back of the picture any information you remember about the

people in it. Also, write the date if you remember it. Looking at photo albums

is a relaxing way to spend the day and it is a fun activity to share with family

and friends. Your children, grandchildren and their children will appreciate

your eorts too.

T P L

Your library card can be your ticket to entertainment, current events and new

ideas. Almost every city has a public library and there is no charge for a library

card. Libraries have books about many subjects, but there are also other things

at the library. ese include books on cassette tape, videotapes, large print

books, CD’s, DVD’s and magazines. Many have free programs in the aernoon

or evening about travel, hobbies or other topics of interest. Some cities also

have a bookmobile or traveling library, which brings the library right into your

neighborhood.

J D. R

John D. Rockefeller did three amazing things. First, he acquired probably the

greatest fortune in all history. He started out in life digging potatoes under the

hot sun for four cents an hour. In those days, there were not half a dozen men

in all the United States who were worth even one million dollars. Eventually,

John D. managed to collect a fortune said to be anywhere from one to two

billion dollars. And yet, the rst girl he fell in love with refused to marry him.

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e reason given was because her mother refused to allow her daughter to

“throw herself away” on a man who had such poor prospects.

S

How many stars can you see on a dark, clear night? You can see about 3,000

stars with your eyes alone. But keep in mind that you are viewing only part

of the sky. If the whole sky were visible, you could count about 5,000 stars. If

you look through a small telescope you might see as many as 600,000 stars.

rough the most powerful telescopes, astronomers can spot millions of stars.

No one is sure exactly how many stars there are altogether, but astronomers

believe there are at least 200 billion, billion stars out in space.

T 10 K  I

Number 1. Practice and listen.

Number 2. Do not leave o the endings of words.

Number 3. Make a list of equently used words.

Number 4. Open your mouth more when you speak English.

Number 5. Don’t be aaid to speak.

Number 6. Read aloud in English for ten to 15 minutes every day.

Number 7. Record your own oice and listen for pronunciation errors.

Number 8. Watch the mouth moements of native speakers and imitate them.

Number 9. Buy books on tape. Read along with the tape - out loud.

Number 10. Be patient.

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Putting it all together – Part II

A  

When a student from another country comes to study in the United States,

he has to nd out for himself the answers to many questions, and he has many

problems to think about. Where should he live? Would it be better living in

a dormitory or in a private room o campus? Should he spend all of his time

studying, or should he take advantage of the many cultural and social activities

that are oered? At rst, he may not feel that he ts in with the American

culture. He may not feel condent when he speaks. Little by little, however, he

learns how to handle himself in various situations. Finally he begins to feel very

secure and ‘at home’. Unfortunately, this long-awaited feeling doesn’t develop

suddenly. It takes time.

V

Volcanoes are holes in the Earth’s crust which allow molten rock to escape from

beneath. e molten rock, or lava, may ow out gently or it may be blasted

high in the air with gas and ash in a violent explosion. ere are eight hundred

and y active volcanoes around the world. Do you know where these

mountains of re are found? ree quarters of them are found within a zone

called the “Ring of Fire.” One edge of the zone stretches along the west coast

of the Americas from Chile to Alaska. e other edge runs along the east coast

of Asia from Siberia to New Zealand. Twenty percent of these volcanoes are

located in Indonesia. Other big groupings are in Japan, e Aleutian Islands,

and Central America.

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T C L

Chinese is a most unusual language. It diers from English and most other

major languages in that it has hundreds of dierent dialects. A person who

lives in one section of the vast country of China, oen cannot understand

a fellow Chinese who lives in another section. ese two major dialects are

Cantonese and Mandarin. Cantonese is a southern dialect. Mandarin, a

dialect that originated in northern China, is spoken by more Chinese than any

other dialect.

Non-Chinese people oen say that the Chinese seem to “sing” their language.

Chinese sounds as though it is sung, because many words are only one-syllable

long and because the tone of voice changes for each word. As in English, many

words have more than one meaning. e speaker’s tone of voice indicates each

word’s specic meaning.

Even more fascinating than the variety of spoken sounds is the Chinese written

language. It has no alphabet. Instead, it employs signs called “characters.”

Each spoken word in the language is represented by a separate character.

Originally, the characters were drawings that depicted the meanings of words,

but over the years, they have simplied, and most no longer look like the things

they represent.

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T S

Around 100 to 150 million years ago, there may have been only one continent

on our planet. At least that is what some earth scientists have decided aer

years of research. If you look at the map of the world carefully, you can see

that the present-day continents could be thought of as the pieces to a gigantic

jigsaw puzzle. In your imagination carefully put the pieces together to form

the supercontinent. You will see that if you took away the South Atlantic

Ocean and pressed South America and Africa together they would t very

nicely. You could continue removing oceans and seas and put other parts

of the world together quite easily until you get to those last two pieces of

Australia and Antarctica. Scientists believe that the continents of Australia and

Antarctica were once linked together. ey may have split slowly o from the

supercontinent and then separated from each other as recently as 40 million

years ago.

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T 50 M M W  E

accounting

argue

actually

available

arrangements

basically

business

calls

complete

continue

contribute

corporation

dierences

directly

exactly

educational

every

exceptional

familiar

nancial

frustrating

general

immediately

inconvenience

introduce

irrational

justice

likeable

loosen

measurements

middle

multiple

national

original

outrageous

particular

partnership

problem

prohibit

quality

question

referring

regardless

request

similar

specic

value

visualize

vulnerable

working

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Congratulations! You’ve made it to the end!

We always loe hearing om people who have taken our course! Please call us,

contact us via our website, or send e-mail to info@pronunciationworkshop.com

and tell us how our program has helped you.

Also, if you would like to work with a Pronunciation Workshop Certied Speech

Language Pathologist directly to receive more personalized attention, just let us

know. Working with one of our trainers on your specic pronunciation issues is fun

and can be extremely helpful.

Good luck in all your endeavors and thank you for taking our program!

Paul S. Gruber, MS, CCC-SLP, CEO

Speech Language Pathologist