Which features of connected speech might you use in the following sentences?

Indicate weak forms and any other feature that might be appropriate. Then
write the sentence how you would pronounce it.

1. There are ten people on the list.

2. What are you doing today?

3. Do you want an apple?

4. How do you know him?

5. He should have known.

6. He always says no.

7. Did you pick it up?

8. When does it end?

9. It was last year.

10. I always tell him to go away.

11. It must be old age.

12. The tv’s on standby.

13. What is it?

14. It’s an orange.

15. I’ll take some medicine.

16. What do you do at the weekend?

17. Does he play any instruments?

18. Is it really her?

19. If you like it, then buy it!

20. Don’t believe it!

Student A

Forrest: Hello, my name is Forrest, Forrest Gump. ____ ______

_______ __ chocolate? I could eat about a million and a half of these.
My mama always said ‘life is like a box of chocolates, you never know
______ _______ ________ ___ ______’

Forrest: Those must be comfortable shoes. I bet you can walk all day
in _______ _____ ______ and not feel a thing. I wish I had shoes
like that.

Nurse: My feet hurt.

Forrest: Mama always said ‘there’s an awful lot you can tell _______
a person by their shoes’, where ______ ______, where they been.
I’ve worn ______ ___ shoes. I bet if I think about it real hard, I can
remember my first pair of shoes. Mama said they’d take me
___________.

Student B

Forrest: Hello, my name is Forrest, Forrest Gump. Do you want a

chocolate? I could eat about a million and a half of these. My mama
________ _______ ‘life is like a box of chocolates, you never know
what you’re going to get’

Forrest: Those ______ ____ ________ shoes. I bet you can walk
all day in shoes like that and not feel a thing. I wish I had shoes like
that.

Nurse: My _______ _______.

Forrest: Mama always said ‘there’s an awful lot you can tell about a
person _____ their shoes, where they goin’, where _____ ______.
I’ve worn lots of shoes. I bet if I think about it real hard, I can
remember my first pair of shoes. Mama said _______ ______
____ anywhere.