This 4-title set includes everything you need to help you reduce the effects of your first language accent and become a better speaker of the English language! Included are volumes 1 & 2 of "Practice Makes Perfect", "1000 Key English Words & Idioms", and "ESL PRO". "ESL PRO" is a cutting-edge software product that will help you learn how to make the key sounds in the English language, while "Practice Makes Perfect" 1 provides additional practice activities for the lessons in the "ESL PRO" program. It also identifies the typical English pronunciation errors made by speakers of the top ten most influential world languages. "Practice Makes Perfect" 2 takes learners past the individual sounds of the English language and on to word stress, sentence stress, and intonation. "1000 Key English Words & Idioms" not only helps you learn important words and phrases in English, but also allows you to hear the pronunication of each one and then record your own voice for comparison. This package will be of great benefit to anyone who wants to improve his or her pronunciation!
Includes the following titles (click on each CD for more details):
ESL
PRO: ESL PRO accelerates learning by teaching the key
sounds that make up the English language. The student is then taught how to
combine these sounds into words and sentences. The software provides the learner
with native-speaker models to listen to and imitate. Students are able to record
their voices and then compare the result with a native speaker's voice. Also included is a student
workbook that emphasizes key concepts taught in the software. A companion teacher's
manual provides lesson plans and exercises for the classroom environment that
can also be used by parents and tutors to stress key components of language
acquisition.
Practice Makes Perfect Volume 1: Designed for non-native English speakers who want to improve their pronunciation and reduce the effects of their first language accent. Topics covered include: The Individual Sounds of the English Language, Consonant Sounds, Vowel Sounds, Common Pronounciation Problems, and Specific Pronounciation Problems for Speakers of Major Languages (including French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Chinese, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Hindi, and Korean).
Practice Makes Perfect Volume 2: This workbook is the companion product to Volume 1 and builds on the content learned by moving on to the suprasegmental features of English pronunciation such as word stress, sentence stress, and common intonation patterns.
1000 Key English Words and Idioms: With this product you will not only be able to learn the definitions of 1000 key words and idioms in the English language, but you will also be able to see how they are used in example sentences and hear each word's pronunciation as spoken by a native speaker. That's not all! You can also record your own pronunciation of each word and then compare it back to the native speaker's. In addition, you can also print out the words and idioms to make flashcards that you can study on the bus, in the classroom, or anywhere else!