CHAPTER 11 Connected Speech
OBJECTIVES,
In this chapter, you will earn more about:
+ how to link or connect words.
* how sounds get changed or lost when we connect words.
SUNIMARY
Inswritten English, we separate words. In spoken English, we connect words.
Written English: What lid you do?
Spoken English: Whadijiado?
‘The end of one word connects or inks with the beginning of the next word. Words in
1 phase might sound like one long word.
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EXERCISE 1 BY Work with a partner. Read the conversation Its written the way it sounds in
spoken English, Write the conversation in written English
‘Spoken English
‘A: Whadaye do?
8: ma photographer.
A: Whadaye take fodo-z0v?
A: Oh! Wows tayo picts my family?
8: Shar
Written English
ae WhatdoyoudorGy Ci Check your answers with your class. Then listen to the conversation,
€D 2; Track 29
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EXERCISE 2 BY Cl Listen to each set of words. Do they sound the same or diferent? Check v/
your answer, CD 2; Track 30
Same Different
1. major bes Zt
made your bed oa
2. Andy won
and.he won
3. are often running
are offand running
4. falrest ofthe mall,
fairest of thery all
5. made a mistake
made hing a steak
6. a nice cold shower
ance cold shower
7. some mothers came
some others came
8. didn’t see Mable
dida’t seem able
9. needs a name
needs angi
10. the stuffy nose
the stuffhe knows
GED share your answers to part A with your class. Then listen again. Notice that
‘the words are cifferent, but they sound the same, C1) 2. "racl 30)Rr EG
EXERCISE 3
EXERCISE 4
Tinking: Final Consonant to Beginning Vowel
[CE] Words in a phrase are often linked, as you've seen in previous chapters. Liste.
What happens when we link a final consonant sound to a beginning vowel sound?
CD 2; Track 31
thermal Snow Whites the fairest of ther al
an apple May Ihave an appl, please?
walk away Don't walk away!
When we lnk inal consonant to a begining vowel sound, it
founds tte the inal consonant moves to the next word (for example, them oll
sounds the the mal}.
EN tisten. Repeat the phrases. CD 2; Track 32
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