Syllabus in Practical Phonetics, 1st Year, 1st Term, Advanced and Upper Intermediate Groups

Weeks	Language Input Study Material and Reference		Development and Consolidation of Graded Phonetic Skills. Practice material and tape-recordings						Forms of Evaluation
	Sounds & sound phenomena	Intonation patterns & intonation phenomena	Recognition & imitation of sounds, sound phenomena & intonation patterns. Rhythm practice	Reproduction in connected speech based on imitation. Reading aloud and memory work			Performance in connected speech:
				Prose	Conversa-tion	Poetry	based on a given model in a limited situation	based on independent phonetic interpretation
1.	Loss of plosion in consonant clusters of two plosive consonants PEP, Section I., Part 1, p.210	Intonation of non-final parts of utterances. The notion of a simple & a combined tune PEP, Section I, Part 2 p.213	Sound ex-s 1-3, PEP, pp. 211. One-stress rhythm pattern. Stressed syllable only. PEP, pp.213-214;		“Have you got any children” (memory work) from “Opening strategies” PEP, p. 226		Dialogues by analogy with “Have you got any children		Current check-up
2	Nasal plosion in consonant clusters of a plosive consonant with nasal sonorants [n, m] PEP, Sect. I., Part 1 p.210	A Low-Rise in non-final intonation groups. One-stress rhythm. PEP, Section I, Part 2 p.213, Part 3 pp. 217-220	Sound ex-s 4-5, PEP, pp. 212 One-stress rhythm pattern. Stressed syllable and enclitics. PEP, pp.214-215	“Our Sitting Room”. (memory work) PEP p. 224. L.C.5			Texts by analogy with the text “Our Sitting Room”		Current check-up
3	Lateral plosion in consonant clusters of a plosive consonant with the lateral sonorant [ l ] PEP, Section I., Part 1 p.211	The Falling nuclear tone in non-final parts of utterances. PEP, p.213, pp. 217-220	Sound ex-s 6-7, PEP, pp. 212. Rhymes PEP, pp.212-213 One-stress rhythm pattern. Stressed syllable and proclitics. PEP, pp.215-217	“Aunt Emily” (memory work) PEP, pp. 224-225			”Speech ex-s pp. 222-223	Reading Practice PEP, p.225	Current check-up
4	Revision of sound phenomena PEP, Section I., Part 1 pp.210-211	The Falling-Rising nuclear tone in non-final parts of utterances. One-stress rhythm. PEP, p.213, 217-220	Intonation of non-final parts of utterances. Work-book on English intonation. Unit 1, pp. 4-5			“Bed in Summer” (memory work) by R. L. Stevenson PEP, p. 226		Extracts for independent reading (from“Developing Strategies in Reading Comprehension-1” )	Phonetic Dictation (Auditory Test) №1
5	Fricative plosion in consonant clusters of a plosive consonant with a fricative consonant PEP, Section II.,Part 1 p.227	Intonation of initial parentheses. PEP, pp.231-232; Two-stress rhythm. Structures with two stressed syllables only. PEP, Section II pp.229-230	Sound ex-s 1-2, PEP, pp. 228. Two-stress rhythm pattern. Falling Tunes PEP, pp.230-231			“Nurse’s Song” after W.Blake PEP, pp.241-242	Speech ex-s PEP, pp. 237-238 ex.1-2		Current check-up
6	Consonant clusters of alveolar consonants before [ T ], [D] PEP, Section II., Part 1 p.227	Intonation of final parentheses, PEP, pp.233; Two-stress rhythm. PEP, pp. 233	Sound ex-s 5, PEP, pp. 229. Two-stress rhythm pattern. Rising Tunes PEP, pp.230-231;		“Morning and Evening” (memory work) PEP, L.C. 14, pp.240-241		Speech ex-s PEP, pp. 237-238 ex.3-4; Dialogues by analogy with “Morning and Evening”	Reading Practice PEP, p. 239 ex. I	Current check-up
7	Consonant clusters with [w] PEP, Section II., Part 1 pp.227-228	Parentheses in the middle of an utterance, PEP, pp.231-232; Two-stress rhythm. PEP, p. 233-234	Sound ex-s 3-4, PEP, pp. 228-229. Limericks PEP, p. 229 ex. 6 Two-stress rhythm pattern. Falling-Rising Tunes PEP, pp.230-231			“The Arrow & the Song” (memory work) by H. W. Longfellow,p. 241	Speech ex-s PEP, pp. 238 ex.5-6	Reading Practice PEP, p. 239 ex. 2	Current check-up
8	Revision of sound phenomena PEP, Section II., Part 1 pp.227-228	Intonation of parentheses. Work-book on English Intonation, Unit 2 pp.6-7	Intonation of parentheses. Work-book on English Intonation, Unit 2 pp.6-7				Speech ex-s PEP, pp. 238 ex.7-8	Extracts for independent reading (from “Developing Strategies in Reading Comprehension-1” )	Phonetic Dictation (Auditory Test) №2
9	Revision of sound phenomena PEP, Sections I-II., pp.210-211, pp.227-228	Revision of intonation phenomena PEP, Sections I-II., pp.217-220, pp.231-233	Revision of rhythm patterns PEP, Sections I-II., pp.213-216, pp.229-231					Extracts for independent reading (from “Developing Strategies in Reading Comprehension-1” )	End-of-Term Phonetic Dictation; End-of-Term Test