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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. Wm 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 Whatdoyoudor Gy Ci Check your answers with your class. Then listen to the conversation, €D 2; Track 29 ———————E 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 1. Cleanup. (Clea-nup.) 6. What'

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