In teaching pronunciation, especially in an EFL setting, a teacher occasionally stumbles upon students making incorrect pronunciation of certain sounds. The mistakes are due to several factors, like the student may have a speech organ defect, she or he comes from a particular place whose accent influences her or his pronunciation and the like. The problems, those related to pronunciation, can sometimes be reduced or even overcome. One of the ways is by training students to focus on certain sounds and they have to pronounce them correctly and flawlessly. In doing so, a teacher plays an important role, that is as the model for the students.

A teacher should give modeling of these pronunciations of the sounds. The students have to focus on how each sound is produced. The follow-up activities will employ parroting or repeating after the teacher. At the end of the activity, it is hoped that the students begin to feel how to pronounce these sounds. Have a try on this exercise.

• EASY TO USE Full teaching rubrics allow the material to be used both for self-study and classroom use. Stand-alone units allow you to focus on sounds which you find difficult.
• SYSTEMATIC Each unit offers comprehensive practice of sounds, with additional work on stress and intonation.
• MORE AUDIO Four audio CDs give lots of listening and pronunciation practice.
• FULL COLOUR Attractive full colour artwork aids understanding and makes the material memorable.

• EASY TO USE Full teaching rubrics allow the material to be used both for self-study and classroom use. Stand-alone units allow you to focus on sounds which you find difficult.
• SYSTEMATIC Each unit offers comprehensive practice of sounds, with additional work on stress and intonation.
• MORE AUDIO Four audio CDs give lots of listening and pronunciation practice.
• FULL COLOUR Attractive full colour artwork aids understanding and makes the material memorable.

The following phonemic chart is a software named "Sounds Right". Sounds Right is the British Council's first pronunciation chart for learners and teachers worldwide.

Features:

• Pure vowels are arranged the same way as in the IPA chart: according to mouth shape (left to right, lips wide / round - top to bottom, jaw closed / open).
• Diphthongs are grouped in rows according to their second sound.
  

This book contains a collection of varied and imaginative activities for the practice of English pronunciation. the activities can be used as awareness raisong activities or for controlled practice or revision.

Introducing English Pronunciation provides teachers with all the information and guidance they need to use Tree or Three? and Ship or Sheep? enjoyably and successfully in the classroom. Detailed notes are provided for each unit of both books, incorporating suggested teaching procedures and ideas for additional practice. One chapter lists the errors likely to be made by students of different mother tongues and, for students not included in this list, a diagnostic pronunciation test is included.

A straightforward primer on the theory and teaching of pronunciation, this text offers detailed analysis and teaching techniques for vowels, consonants, stress and intonation, and the features of fluent speech.
The How to…series offers practical teaching ideas within a clear, theoretical framework.
An audio CD with spoken examples of sounds, words and phrases from the book puts the theories examined into a clear context.

If you already speak English, but now would like to start speaking even better, then Speak English Like an American is for you. This book and CD set is designed to help native speakers of any language speak better English. Over 300 of the most-used American English idioms and phrases are presented in engaging dialogue, with plenty of usage examples, illustrations, and lot…more
The audio CD contains all of the dialogues in the book.
It gives me the ability to use and understand casual expressions, or idioms, which normally won’t be learned in a standard textbooks but I meet them in newspapers, magazines, TV shows … etc.

In the book the present American pronunciation is well presented. All the exercises given in the textbook are connected directly with 5 audio disks, the audio will help you to compare various versions of a pronunciation and to fulfill true techniques of a pronunciation of each of the sounds meeting in language.
Also the fundamental importance in the textbook is given a proper accent in various complex words. Complexity of exercises is varied from complex instances up to elementary. It is a wonderful approach for teachers, as the additional grant. At the moment it is probably the best rated book of a pure American pronunciation.