This new edition of a highly successful pronunciation text covers all of the speech sounds of North American English, as well as spelling, intonation, and stress. Pronunciation Pairs offers a variety of exercises and activities, from very controlled minimal pair and listening discrimination tasks to dialogs, games, puzzles, and guided conversations. The Pronunciation Pairs, Second Edition, class audio CDs include all of the listening tasks presented in the Student's Book. Students will have ample practice listening to and repeating the sounds of English. Students will hear vowel and consonant sounds, word pairs, dialogs, and examples of stress, intonation, and linking.