Listening practice can also take the form of discrimination exercises where the same utterance is recited using different sentence stress patterns. The learners do not even have to see the sentence written down, but it is helpful if they have an Answer Grid where they have to choose between three possible meanings for each utterance: meaning [A], [B] or [C]. The same utterance can be used in successive discrimination test questions applying different stress patterns until each of the alternative meanings [A] [B] and [C] have been exhausted, though the learner will need to mark their answers in the correct sequence. Thus, seven different utterances, each presented three times, would require a ready-made Answer Grid offering twenty-one different meanings.

The best published material I have used of this kind was Donn Byrne and Gordon Walsh's "Listening Comprehension 1 Teacher's Book" [Longman 1973] containing sample utterances to practise phonology [Units 1-11], stress, rhythm and intonation [Units 12-16]. The Answer Grids were contained in an accompanying student's workbook entitled "Pronunciation Practice". These materials have long been out of print, though it is quite easy for native speakers of English to produce their own.

The best published material, still available, for practice of stress timing and placement is "Stress Time" and "Weak Forms" contained in Colin Mortimer's "Elements of English" listed below:

Recommended materials for practice in English stress and intonation patterns
   

Elements of Pronunciation: Student Book [ For intermediate upwards to practise stress timing, weak forms, consonant clusters, link up ]
Elements of Pronunciation: Cassette
This book consists of practice materials for "stress time", "weak forms", "liaison" (linkages between words) and "consonant clusters". Focus on these areas of pronunciation is often neglected. Colin Mortimer's practice dialogues are graded in order to make the material accessible to levels of proficiency ranging from post elementary to higher intermediate.

Headway: Upper-intermediate: Pronunciation: Book Sarah Cunningham, Bill Bowler [ For phonology, stress and intonation combined ]
Headway: Upper-intermediate: Pronunciation Cassettes
Headway: Intermediate: Pronunciation: Book Sarah Cunningham, Bill Bowler
Headway: Intermediate: Pronunciation: Cassettes
Headway: Pre-intermediate: Pronunciation: Book Bill Bowler, Sue Parminter
Headway: Pre-intermediate: Pronunciation: Cassette
Headway Pronunciation: Elementary: Book Sarah Cunningham, Peter Moor
Headway Pronunciation: Elementary: Cassette

The Communicative Value of Intonation in English David Brazil (Ed.) et al [ For teachers and learners e.g. language of presentations &/or negotiation ]

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