Pronunciation Pairs Student's Book with Audio CD 2nd Edition

I am very satisfied with this purchase; the book was in excellent condition and arrived on time.

I am an English tutor for people from Japan. I think this is an awesome book in many ways. My students also like it. There is a very helpful audio cd and the lessons contain a variety of pronunciation related topics. Infortunately, there were a few sellers on Amazon and Ebay that were false advertising their used books and the books were in very bad condition. I recommend ording this in New! condition only (or sellers you already know and trust)as those sellers were truthful. I also highly recommend the teachers manual as it has a great deal of insight into how to teach people coming from specific language backgrounds.

This minimal pairs pronunciation book is exactly what I have been looking for to use in my beginners ESL Listening/Speaking class. A lot of books that I have looked at and bought didn't have enough in class activities to practice, read aloud, and connect with other sounds. This is such a GREAT book to help with pronunciation. They only draw back is the British English focus, but I really like this book and excited that I bought it ^-^

It's amazing how we take for granted the very different sounds in English and how easily we produce them. Not so easy for someone learning English as a second language! The minimal pair contrasts between the different vowels is particularly helpful, along with the CD. I'm a speech pathologist and I'm helping tutor an advanced ESL student who is having some difficulty with the subtle difference between the many different vowel sounds we have- his book has really helped.

Overall I like this book as a way to teach pronunciation to learners of English as a Second Language. The use of similar words that are pronounced differently is a great way to highlight pronunciation problems and to effectively overcome those problems. The book is broken up into units, each of which treating a different phoneme. Although there is a teachers' edition of the book, this one is fine for both teachers and learners.My only complaint deals with the audio CD that is included. Whereas each unit has a number of tasks (starting with the pronunciation pair exercise), the CD only includes one task per unit, and never the pronunciation pairs. This has been frustrating for my current learner.

I have several books to teach pronunciation to ESL students, but this is by far one of the best. The illustrations are fantastic. It works on a different sound each chapter while also talking about intonation patterns and stress in different contexts - numbers, lists, pronouns, negative structures, compound nouns, questions, -ed verbs, connected speech. There are review chapters, dialogs to contextualize practice, discussions, and games. I'm love with this book. I recommend it to everyone.

Unfortunately, I must have put this book in my cart before Mara Moreno posted her review. She is right; the CD contains a very small portion of the listening activities, and it seems the activities were chosen in such a manner as to be sure the ones a reader would most want are not included. The activities on the CD are not very useful. I bought the book to use with a student I tutor. Fortunately I purchased another book at the same time: Mastering the American Accent, by Lisa Mojsin. Mojsin's book is much more useful. It comes with four great CDs that cover all the listening exercises. Also, the Mojsin book addresses prosidy (although the word 'prosidy' is not used). Prosidy, the rhythm and melody of speech, is very important in English. The Mojsin book covers such prosidy concepts as thought groups, focus words, content words, and function words. If a student does not learn the proper English prosidy, he will not only have speech problems, but will also have problems understanding the spoken word. For instance, when tested, my student could hear no difference between "Is that Mr. Fogg?" and "is that mist, or fog?" Before purchasing Pronunciation Pairs, consider Mojsin's book.

I use this book with all my clients. I find it well designed and organized as a systematic approach to learning all the vowels and consonants of the English language. With every chapter is a new skill to help the student learn the correct intonation and phrasing patterns of English. My clients love this book and so do I!