English Pronunciation Made Simple (2nd Edition)

I volunteer as an English tutor and find this book invaluable for accent reduction exercises. I tend to use the diagnostic exercises (for vowels, consonants, consonants clusters, sentence stress) in the back of the book to identify the most important problem areas and then choose the corresponding chapters for drill work.

Example diagnostic sentences for the letter p: Pick up a pack of ripe apples. Mom will bake apple pie for supper.

Example drill work for the letters b and p: robe/rope, mob/mop, tab/tap, rib/rip, stable/staple, symbol/simple (one exercise out of 7 pages for b and p).

Additionally, during 'read aloud' sessions, I note mispronounced words, then after the reading, I go over the words with the student, and when there is a thematic problem (such as trouble with the letter p) I find the corresponding exercises and do some drill work with the student.

Final comments:

Each chapter has sufficient material for the drill work to be effective (as compared to some books that provide a few examples/exercises to illustrate the sound, but not enough to 'master' the sound).

Also, I agree with the previous comment that the book is not really suitable for self-study (although the hints for common spellings for each sound are valuable and suitable for self-study).

This is a very good book, specially for people that English is their second language. The book comes with two cd's with the check up exercises. However, we need to buy separetely the audio for the exercises in the book.

I purchased this book a month ago. It really helped me a lot, It has simple graphics for the different sounds and exercises well prepaid. I love this book.

I absolutely LOVE this book. I use this book in addition to another book for my ESL classes. I encourage all new teachers of ESL to use this book b/c it is helpful in assessing the problem areas of your students. This way, you can focus your attention on these areas, and see the results!

LOVE LOVE LOVE it.

Hi, do not buy this book, it is wortless.

You need teacher's CD to really hear correct sound and practice one particular sound.
From student's CD you will never teach you correct isolated sound, which you need practice.

Teacher's CD has only lang. department on Miamidade coll., they want you to spend money on courses in class with other 40 people once a week repeating like crowd of canary. Look for some other book with better CD.