Intermediate
Pronunciation
of American English

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20 Jasmin will teach Lesson One Homework: Practice Lesson One for 30 minutes	21 Jasmin will teach Lessons One and Two Homework: Practice Lesson One for 30 minutes	23 Listening practice/dictation and warm-up International Phonetic Alphabet Lessons One and Two Go over the syllabus Homework: Practice Lesson One for 30 minutes Write eight vocabulary words from your summer elective class/es in two columns: four with [i] and four with [I]	24 Quiz on symbols for four vowels Lessons One and Two continued Homework: Study for a quiz on Lessons 1 and 2 (practice with a partner!)

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27 No class - Memorial Day	28 Quiz on lessons 1 and 2 Listening practice/dictation and warm-up Lesson 3 Homework: Memorize the parts of the head Review/Practice Lessons 1, 2 and the beginning of 3	30 Meet at 12:45 in 116 12:45 Children's opera in Smith Auditorium	31 Listening practice/dictation and warm-up Explain practice groups Lesson 3 continued Links to pronunciation websites Homework: Find the symbol in your bilingual dictionary that corresponds to the International Phonetic Alphabet symbols Practice Lessons 1, 2 and 3 (as far as we've gone) in your group

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3 Listening practice/dictation and warm-up Lesson 3 Homework: In your study groups, practice Lesson 3 (and review 1 & 2) Write four words, phrases or sentences you would like to practice	4 Listening practice/dictation and warm-up Return dictionary symbol sheet Lesson 3: Two-syllable patterns Lesson 4 Homework: Prepare a 1-minute talk about yourself using as many numbers as possible In your groups, practice Lesson 3 (and review 1 and 2) Oral quiz Thursday: I"ll ask you to say some words and expressions from Lesson 3	6 Quiz -- Oral lesson 3 "Numbers introductions" Lesson 3 Homework: Practice Lessons 1, 2 and 3 (Quiz Monday)	7 Dialogue with English words loaned to Japanese Lesson 14 /r/ & /l/ Homework: Practice Lessons 1, 2, 3 & 14 Midterm on Wednesday
10 Listening practice/dictation and warm-up Lesson 14 continued Review Explanation of midterm procedure Homework: Study and practice for the midterm	11 Listening practice/dictation and warm-up Lesson 13 [v], [b] Review Homework: Study and practice for the midterm	13   Midterm over everything we've covered	14 Return tests Lesson 13 Homework: List 20 words with the sound [b] and ten with the sound [v] from common words you use or words from your elective classes. Look up the pronunciation and be prepared to say the words.
17   Listening practice/dictation and warm-up Lesson 13 [f] [p] Tapes! Homework: Practice Lesson 13	18 Song Lesson 5: Sentence stress, unstress and rhythm Homework: Carefully read and complete page 36 Practice what we've covered in Lesson 5	20 Review of [p] & [f] & prepositions Lesson 5: Sentence stress, unstress and rhythm Homework: Practice what we've covered in Lesson 5 Page 40,6. Blacken the dots over the stressed syllables Page 43, bottom, 1-10; guess the ten ask a native speakers what these proverbs mean Practice saying the words you wrote with [b] and [v]	21 Listening practice/dictation and warm-up Lesson 5 Homework: Practice Lesson 5 Write ten sentences: 5 things you can do and 5 things you can't do
24 Listening practice/dictation and warm-up: travel Finish Lesson 5 Sentence stress, unstress and rhythm Homework: Prepare for the quiz on Lesson 5	25 Listening practice/dictation and warm-up Lesson 6: Sentence stress, rhythm groups, and linking Homework: Prepare for the final	27 Final exam Exam evaluation form	28 Class overview Tongue twisters Evaluations   You're done!