Hi there!
Are you ready to continue boosting your comprehension and understanding real spoken English?
Then
get a pen
get a piece of paper
and keep watching this video.
I’m Christina and you’re watching Speak Better, Feel Great TV.
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Today’s video continues our special interactive exercises
that will help you feel more confident about understanding Americans.
You ready?
First, if you didn’t watch the comprehension exercises from Part 1 in Understanding Real Spoken English,
do it now.
Then come back to do these exercises.
Go on—it’s really important to do those exercises first.
and If you’ve already completed those exercises, let’s start,
so you can improve your comprehension now.
AND also improve your pronunciation.
really fantastic, I know.
First, will do short expressions,
and then we do complete sentences.
After this video, you’ll be on your way to understanding Americans
the way they really talk
and making it easier for them
to understand you.
piece of paper
pencil
go get them.
Here we go
I'll say a short expession
and you write what you hear.
I'll say each expression twice.
Number 1
Number 2
and number 3
Number 4
Here are the expressions you heard:
Number 1
Number 2
Number 3
and number 4
Now
say each expression to yourself,
or
go back and listen again.
Then,
Put an asterisk in the place of the weak schwa sound, like this:
for the expression “a lot of”
You wrote:
a lot of
Now, put an asterik in the place of the weak schwas
* lot *
Pause the video while you do this for the other expressions and then come back
and we'll check.
Here are the answers:
How did you do?
Now, we're gonna increase the challenge a little bit.
I’ll say 4 short
but complete sentences.
and you write the sentences that you hear.
I’ll say each sentence
twice.
Here we go.
Number 2
Number 3
and number 4
Here are the sentences you heard.
Now,
pause the video
and put asteriks in the place of the weak schwa sounds,
Just like in the last exercise.
and then comeback to check.
Here are the answers:
Notice that even without the weak words, you can sometimes
globally understand the message,
Now sometimes
you may think that you globally understand
but you might not feel confident about it.
That will come with practice.
If you want to work specifically on your pronunciation of weak sounds,
watch this video again.
Pause it where you see the transcriptions with the asteriks
and practice saying the sentences.
Just replace the asteriks with
that's it for today.
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I’m Christina, from Speak Better, Feel Great TV.
See ya next time!