Course Strucrure

Pronunciation of words and phrases
Consonant clusters at the beginning of words, at the end of words,  within and across words
Stress in words and phrases
Word stress and prominence
Suffixes, Prefixes and word stress
Stress in compound nouns, adjectives and in abbreviations,  in longer compound nouns
One-stress phrasal verbs
Two-stress phrasal verbs
Stressed and unstressed syllables
Weak forms of function words
Prominent function words
Vowels in unstressed syllables in content words
Syllabic consonants
Foreign words

Pronunciation in conversation
Features of fluent speech
Li nking sounds
Contracted forms
Ellipsis and near ellipsis'
Leaving out consonant sounds
Words that lose a syllable

Organising information in conversation
Break ing speech i nto units
Prominent words in speech units
Fixed phrases and idioms i n speech units
Non-prominence on final 'empty' content words
Non-prominence on final vague expressions
Prominence i n reflexive and personal pronouns