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1.What does a reduction mean?

Reduction is when an English speaker shortens or eliminates particular sound and make it
sound like connected speech.

2. List the ten reductions and contractions in the video and one example of a sentence
or phrase from the video and one from your own.

1. I have your phone. – I love your hair

2. He has our dog. – We invited him to our weeding.

3. I have his phone. – She calls them every day.

4. I think they´re coming in the mail. - I think they´re a great couple.

5. He didn´t know the answer. - It didn´t arrive on time.

6. I think that it´s sunny. - It is awesome that you were able to work on it,

7. I don´t know. - I don´t know if she is coming.

8. He had cake and ice cream yesterday. - I bought a skirt and a pair of sandals.

9. She gave a present to me. - The house was sale to the lady next door.

10. I´m going to study this lesson. – We are going to visit her on Saturday.

3. Practice reading aloud this challenge at the end of the video. Then record it on an
audio and paste it on your Word file.

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