When pronouncing words together in phrases, it helps to be able to connect their sounds.

Otherwise, your speech can sound choppy, and idioms in particular might be lost on the
listener. A good way to make your pronunciation of phrases more fluent is to use connecting
sounds, especially when a word ending in a vowel is followed by a word beginning in a
vowel. The two most important sounds for connecting vowels are /j/ – as in the phrase
‘I_agree’ – and /w/ – as in the phrase ‘blue_eyes’.
Task. Find a route through the maze that only crosses squares with /j/ connecting sounds.
Starting at the top-left corner, you can go left, right, up, down or diagonally from each
square until you reach the bottom right square. You only have 6 moves.

see_eye to keep_a go_over your a shoulder to give you_a a slip_of the

eye straight face head cry_on heads-up tongue

could you know_off the keep an it’s on_its up to a_huge

give me_a top of my eye_on it last legs my_eyes in weight off
hand? head work my shoulders

they go_hand play it by_ear he’s pulling she_got cold put my_foot music to
in hand your_leg feet in it my_ears

Now try to do the same with /w/ connecting sounds and 7 moves.

go_over my know_off the see_eye to a_huge a shoulder to music to

head top of my eye weight off cry_on my_ears
head my shoulders

have_a sweet give you_a they go_hand she_got cold up to a slip_of the
tooth heads-up in hand feet my_eyes in tongue
work

be_all ears until you_are go_in one ear give you_a know_it by can I give
blue in the and out the leg up heart you_a hand?
face other