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LK! THAT SOUNDS FAMILIAR!

Please, share and discuss the following extracts…Do they look familiar?
What kind of texts do you think they are? Do you know anything about them?

Now compare these extracts with the following page and practice identifying the sounds…

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HARRY STYLES As It Was 2022 DUA LIPA Be the One 2015

Holdin' me back I see in blue, I see in blue, I see in blue

Gravity's holdin' me back Oh, when you see everything in red
I want you to hold out the palm of your hand There is nothing that I wouldn't do for you
Why don't we leave it at that? Do for you, do for you
Oh, 'cause you got inside my head
Nothin' to say
When everything gets in the way Oh, but when you're gone
Seems you cannot be replaced When you're gone, when you're gone
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And I'm the one who will stay, oh Oh baby, all the lights go out
Thinking, oh that, baby, I was wrong
In this world, it's just us I was wrong, I was wrong
You know it's not the same as it was Come back to me, baby, we can work this out
In this world, it's just us
You know it's not the same as it was Oh baby, come on, let me get to know you
As it was, as it was Just another chance so that I can show
You know it's not the same That I won't let you down and run
No, I won't let you down and run
'Cause I could be the one

MILEY CYRUS Flowers 2023 RYAN GOSLING I’m Just Ken 2023

Paint my nails cherry red I wanna know what's like to love, to be the real thing
Match the roses that you left Is it a crime? Am I not hot when I'm in my feelings?
No remorse, no regret I wanna know what's like to love, to be the real thing
I forgive every word you said Is it a crime? Am I not hot when I'm in my feelings?
Ooh, I didn't wanna leave you, baby And is my moment finally here, or am I dreaming?
I didn't wanna fight I'm no dreamer
Started to cry, but then remembered I Can you feel the Kenergy?
Feels so real, my Kenergy
I can buy myself flowers Can you feel the Kenergy?
Write my name in the sand Feels so real, my Kenergy
Talk to myself for hours, yeah I'm just Ken, anywhere else I'd be a ten
Say things you don't understand Is it my destiny to live and die a life of blonde fragility?
I can take myself dancing, yeah I'm just Ken
I can hold my own hand Where I see love, she sees a friend
Yeah, I can love me better than you can What will it take for her to see the man behind the tan and
fight for me?

Read and match the definitions to these words…

PHONETICS  one of the smallest units of speech that make one word different from another word: For
example, the difference between "pin" and "pan" depends on the vowel, i.e. /ɪ/ and /æ/.
DIPHTHONG
 The study and classification of speech sounds.
VOWEL
 a speech sound produced by humans when the breath flows out through the mouth
PHONEME without being blocked by the teeth, tongue, or lips.

CONSONANT  a speech sound that is pronounced by stopping the air from flowing easily through the
mouth, especially by closing the lips or touching the teeth with the tongue.
 A sound formed by the combination of two vowels in a single syllable, in which the sound
begins as one vowel and moves towards another (as in coin, loud, and side)

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Look at the phonemes… tick the word where you can find this phoneme.

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Discuss which are the phonemes in the other words.

1. 5. 9.

idiot this row (argument)

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mean through sow (pig)

lip filth now

breakfast dense row (a boat)

2. 6. 10.

easy wait ought

enter either should

locked ample house

adding sapling annoy

3. 7. 11.

church shoe jet

think should German

wish moon bay

vision puppy yet

4. 8. 12.

aunt shout wood

weight wish mood

apple change mop

hare leisure using

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TONGUE TWISTERS!!! Are you up to the challenge?

BETTY BOTTER PETER PIPER

Betty Botter bought some butter. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
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"But," she said, "this butter's bitter. A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.
If I put it in my batter, If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
It will make my batter bitter. Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper
But a bit of better butter picked?
Will make my batter better."
Words:
So she bought a bit of butter
Peter ['pi:tər]; Piper ['paipər]; picked [pikt]; pick
Better than her bitter butter, [pik]; pickled ['pikld], ['pikəld]; peck [pek]; peppers
And she put it in her batter, ['pepərz]; a [ə]; the [ðə]; of [əv]; where's [weərz],
[werz]; how many ['hau 'meni].
And it made her batter better.

Words:

Betty ['beti]; Botter ['botər]; bought [bo:t]; bit [bit];

put [put]; butter ['bʌtər]; bitter ['bitər]; batter
['bætər]; better ['betər]; but ['bʌt], [bət]; some
[sʌm], [səm]; and [ənd], [ən]; of [əv]; a [ə]; the
[ðə]; than [ðæn]; this [ðis]; her [hər].

WHETHER THE WEATHER

Whether the weather be fine

Or whether the weather be not,
Whether the weather be cold TRANSCRIBE AN EXTRACT FROM YOUR
FAVORITE SONG OR MOVIE!
Or whether the weather be hot,
We will weather the weather Can you guess your partner’s?
Whether we like it or not.

Words:

whether ['weðər]; the weather [ðə 'weðər]; not

[not]; hot [hot]; cold [kould]; or [o:r], [ər]; we will
[wi: wil]; we'll [wi:l]; be [bi:]; is [iz];

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