linking consonants to vowels so remember vowels are a e i o u so this is when a word
ends in a consonant like t or d or b the next word starts with a vowel
a e i o u and we link them so let's look again at our sentence that we started with
do you remember that time when anna and amy fell in the swimming pool
okay so i showed you at the beginning uh what is the more natural way to say it one or two
and the more natural way is do you remember that time when anna and amy fell in the swimming pool
so here we're doing a lot of consonant-to-vowel linking and it can make this middle part
sound uh very difficult to hear the words so let's take a look so we know that time right consonant
consonant that time really say that second t do you remember that time okay next this middle part
we have a lot of consonant to vowel when ends in n consonant next word a link when anna
uh and then we have and ends in a d amy begins with an a and amy
uh here we have fell ends in l and the next word uh in begins with i fell in the swimming pool
so uh here we see we have three linked sounds when anna and amy fell in when anna and amy fell
in instead of when anna and amy fell in right so let's look a little closer at consonant and
vowel linking which is one of the most common uh and can be difficult to understand imagine
i'm saying this sentence very quickly it can be hard to know the words when anna and amy fell in
if you are just listening huh what so let's get some practice i'm going to show you three
sentences and let's see uh the difference when we link consonants to vowels so number one there's an
elephant in the garden so here there's ends in s n begins in a there's n okay but we also have
an ends in n and elephant begins with e there's an elephant so we can do it for many words in a row
here elephant ends in tea in begins with i elephant in or elephant in
the garden we can't link that so here it would sound like there's an elephant in the garden
there's an elephant in the garden okay let's look at number two i ate an apple and two pears okay
tip we do not only do this with uh consonant letters at the end but
consonant sound so eight ends in a two so we're still linking i ate and i aiden
uh then we have n linking to a here apple ends in l o sound right we're not looking at the e
we're looking at the sound apple and next word starts with a and we can link that too
so this would sound like i ate an apple and two pairs all those sounds linked together i ate an
apple and two pairs and you can hear how this helps me to speak quicker and uh communicate uh
a little bit better okay and last these are the best tomatoes i've ever had
so here we have uh this ends in this this sound these which links to our a these are
uh we have our two consonants linking here best tomatoes here tomatoes ends in s
and again the sound i've ever i've ever so this sentence these are the best tomatoes i've ever had
notice how that sounds different then these are the best tomatoes i've ever had
these are the best tomatoes i've ever had
so this can be a little tricky to get the hang of but one thing to notice is yeah we write
words separately with spaces between them but in speech you can easily think of the consonant
sound being at the start of the second word so it's almost like this s is at the start of
n it's almost like this n is at the start of elephant it's almost like the sound is
at the beginning of n there's an elephant right there z an elephant elephant nin
the garden so it's almost like that next word is starting with that consonant sound