I. Educational Television: Read each of the following sentences from page 30 in your course packet. Pay attention to proper word stress on all i+vowel words as well as good thought groups.  Some of these sentences will be included in your mid-term exam. Listen to Educational TV Audio Files

• Educational television is rapidly catching on across the nation.

 
• Educational television provides shows with an intellectual challenge for children and adults.

 
• The majority of educational television programs are funded by foundations and individual contributions.

 
• With public television, parents are surely happier that their children are not subjected to unwanted types of persuasion.

 
• But even with educational television, parents worried initially that their children might have too much exposure to the ‘boob tube,’ as television was once called.

 
• Now, many parents think of educational television as more than just a diversion for their children’s leisure time.


Listen to the passage you just read.  Did you pause between thought groups correctly?
 

II. Words of Wisdom: (From page 1 in your course packet) Read each word of wisdom two times. Pay attention to thought groups and focus.   Listen to Words of Wisdom

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech..

We have nothing to fear but fear itself.
 

III. Reduced function words: Record each sentence. Pay attention to the disappearing /h/ and other unstressed function words.  You may listen to a model of each of the four sentences below by clicking the sentence.  Additional practice: What's the Fastest Way to Send His Packages?

1. Is he running in the marathon?
2. Will her car be ready by this evening?
3. Could he have gotten lost?
4. That’s what he said.

Listen to the sentences you just read and evaluate how well you reduced the soft function words.
 

IV. Can and can’t: Record each sentence.

1. I can’t call you tomorrow.
2. I can understand this equation.
3. He can come to the party.
4. I can’t be there by 9:00.
 

V. Sounds of the –s ending: Read each line paying special attention to the –s ending.

1. opens and closes

2. cartons and cases

3. notes and messages

4. hits and misses

5. diseases and cures

Read your own sentences using phrases from the course packet on page 31.  Please type your sentences in the text box of the Wimba Voice Board so that I can follow along.

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