James Linda, Smith Olga. Get Rid of Your Accent: The English Pronunciation and Speech Training Manual. Part II: Advanced Level

Business and Technical Communication Services, 2011. — 120 p.Get Rid of your Accent is a speech training manual for mastering British English pronunciation. In the first part of this speech training manual, we provide practical exercises for difficult speech patterns, such as word endings, consonant clusters, schwa, strong and week forms of words. The second part is devoted to connected speech patterns. The third part deals with natural flow of speech, intonation, sentence stress and and onomatopoeia. The fourth part covers how to make your speech interesting to listen to using power, pitch, pace and pause. At the end of the book, we provide useful vowel and consonant comparisons, difficult to pronounce London stations and place names. The book contains words, word pairs, colloquial expressions and idioms, sentences, dialogues, prose passages and poetry. You need to listen to a small section at a time and repeat.