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+NEW HORIZON - 2nd Year Textbook
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+
+***********************
+* IMMEDIATE RESOURCES *
+***********************
+How to Use a Dictionary - Page 21
+Songs - Page 39, 73
+Syntax / Word Order - Page 49
+Eng-Jap Dictionary - Page 96 - 111
+Place Words - Page 112
+Clothing Words - Page 113
+Opposites - Page 114 - 115
+Using `get` - Page 116
+Using `have / has` - Page 117
+Using `take` - Page 118
+Using `make` - Page 119
+Using `come / go` - Page 120
+Adjectives - Page 121
+Verbs - Page 122 - 123
+Expressions - Page 126
+Other Useful Expressions - Final two pages
+
+*****************
+* PHONICS STUFF *
+*****************
+Page 9 - Listening Plus 1 - Sound Box
+-> Examples of "Consonant->Vowel" linking.
+-> "about_you" in "How about you?" demonstrates "t + y" turning into
+   "ch". Note that not all native speakers do this.
+
+Page 17 - Listening Plus 2 - Sound Box
+-> Examples of Thought Groups. Native speakers tend to put pauses
+   at logical places in sentences.
+
+Page 27 - Listening Plus 3 - Sound Box
+-> Examples of "Consonant->Consonant" linking.
+-> Examples of linking where consonants link to schwa. Schwa is the most
+   common vowel in English, and is written in IPA as an upsidedown 'e'.
+   In the textbook they refer to this as "disappearing sounds", but really
+   it's just schwa.
+   See #1: "... work_in Japan." Here, 'k' is linking to 'i', where 'i'
+   is in fact pronounced as schwa. 
+
+Page 45 - Listening Plus 4 - Sound Box
+-> Examples of sentence stress. #1 and #2 show quite well how the same
+   sentence can be used to answer different questions in fundamentally
+   different ways.
+
+Page 55 - Listening Plus 5 - Sound Box
+-> Examples of common homophones.
+
+Page 63 - Listening Plus 6 - Sound Box
+-> Examples of compound words vs. adjective+noun pairs that look
+   similar. Note that the compound versions only have one main accent.
+
+Page 79 - Listening Plus 7 - Sound Box
+-> Examples of intonation, and how various tones of voice can change
+   the meaning of sentences.