6. To raise the students awareness that Chinese has very few consonant clusters.
教学内容：
1. Three ways of dividing consonants (1) the places of articulation (2) the manners of articulation (3) the state of the vocal cords
2. Three stages of a complete plosion /p/ /b/ /t/ /d/ /k/ /g/ (1) the closure/closing
(2) the stop/compression (3) the release/explosion
3. Incomplete plosion
4. Fricatives and Affricates /f/ /v/ /θ/ /e/ /s/ /z/ /?/ /?/ /h/ 5. Nasals, Approximants and Lateral /m/ /n/ /?/ /w/ /r/ /j/ /l/
考核要求：
1．To know the three ways of dividing consonants. 2．To be familiarized with the description of a consonant. 3．To know the three stages of a complete plosive. 4．To pronounce the consonants correctly.
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/?/ /?/ 5．To know the common forms of consonant clusters.
6．To pronounce the consonant clusters correctly and avoid squashing any vowels in between.
Unit 4 Word Stress & Sentence Stress
教学时数：2学时 教学要点：
1. The definition of stress
2. Two kinds of stress: word stress and sentence stress
教学内容： 1. Word stress
1) The definition of stress
2) Word stress: primary stress, secondary stress and zero stress 3) Stress vs. unstress in terms of loudness, pitch, vowel quality
2. Sentence stress
1) The definition of sentence stress 2) Words usually stressed in a sentence 3) Words usually unstressed in a sentence
考核要求：
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1. Definition of stress 2. Degrees of word stress
3. Word stress; to get word stress correctly
4. Sentence stress: to know which words are usually stressed in a sentence
Unit 5 Weakening
教学时数：2学时 教学要点：
1. The strong and weak forms of the functional words 2. The pronunciation of the weak forms
教学内容：
1. The importance of learning weak forms of the words 2. The strong and weak forms of the functional words 3. The practice of the weak forms
考核要求：
1. To know the strong and weak forms of the functional words. 2. To know the most frequently reduced weak forms. 3. To pronounce the weak forms correctly.
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Unit 6 Rhythm (I)
教学时数：4学时 教学要点：
1．To raise students’ awareness of the importance of stress in English through clearly patterned rhythm in speech.
2．To perceive differences between the rhythmic patterns of English and Chinese and acquire more rhythmic and fluent speech in oral communication.
教学内容：
1. Stress-timed rhythm vs. syllable-timed rhythm 2. Metric foot in English poetry 3. Rhythm and music 4. Work on rhythms 5. Rhythm-group 6. Rhythmic structure 7. Division of rhythmic group 8. Work on rhythmic patterns
考核要求：
1. Get the students know what the rhythm is in English speech. 2. Get the students to understand the rhythmic structure. 3. Let the students practise common rhythmic patterns.
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4. Help the students to read nursery rhymes, sentences, paragraphs rhythmically. 5. Ask students to read nursery rhymes, jazz chants, phrases, sentences and passages rhythmically.
6. Let them work in pairs. First mark the rhythmic stress, and then read the passages.
Unit 7 Liaison (Linking)
教学时数：2学时 教学要点：
7. The definition of linking
8. The different speech flows between Chinese and English 9. Types of linking 10. The practice of linking
教学内容： 1. Definition
2. The different speech flows between Chinese and English 3. Types of linking:
1) Liaison: consonant + vowel
2) Hiatus: vowel + vowel: [j]-glide and [w]-glide 3) Linking [r] 4) Intrusive [r]
5) Practice of linking 2学时
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