hello everyone and welcome back to
english with lucy today i have a
pronunciation lesson for you please
remember that i'm teaching
rp received pronunciation i love it when
students come to me
with what seems to them to be
a massive problem
but i have a really
quick
easy solution and that's what i have for
you today i am going to teach you how to
pronounce
words like these words that end in ed
because it's not so straightforward we
have wanted
danced and saved
one tid
danced
saved
so there are three different ways that
we pronounce ed at the end of a word and
there are so many words that end with ed
we have the regular past simple verbs we
have the regular past perfect verbs and
we have many adjectives so it's a bit
frustrating that we have three different
ways of pronouncing ed at the end of
words but i have a very simple trick
that you can use to instantly know
whether you end the word with id
whether you end it with
or whether you end it with
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with the lesson i'm going to go through
the method with lots of examples and
then i have got an activity which is a
story which will allow you to put into
practice what you've learned it's a bit
of a challenge so let's see how you do
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let's take a look at some root words
we have part
end
test
and need
all of these end in
so you're going to notice with this
method it all depends on how the root
word
ends
with which phoneme or sound does it end
in this case
which are nearly always represented by
the letter t or the letter d
if a root word ends in t or d
the ed is pronounced as id
this means that it adds on an extra
syllable part
parted
end
ended
test
tested
need
needed
that is the easy part but what if a root
word does not end with t or d
well
does it end with a vowel a voiced
consonant
or an unvoiced consonant
if the root word ends with a vowel sound
or with a voiced consonant sound then
the root word ends with voice meaning
that when you produce that last phoneme
you can feel the vibrations in your
throat
if it ends with an unvoiced consonant
you cannot feel the vibrations in your
throat look at these four root words
we have
dine
love
comply
remember
dine
i can feel the vibration
love
i can feel the vibration
comply
that ends with a vowel sound and
remember
still with voice remember that in
received pronunciation if a word ends
with r the r is not pronounced in
american english you might say remember
er but in received pronunciation
remember
uh all of these root words end with
voice and the great thing is that we
match voice with voice if a word ends
with voice apart from the
then we match it with voice
so we add d on to the end
loved
dined
complied
remembered
it would actually be more difficult
to use
at the end because you're moving from
voiced
to
okay so moving on to the root words that
end with an unvoiced consonant take a
look at these four we have
clap
kick
dance and wash
none of the endings have voice in them
just like we matched voiced with voiced
before
we match unvoiced with unvoiced so in
this case
e d is pronounced as
clapped
kicked
danced
washed
try ending these words with the d sound
in my opinion it's a lot more difficult
so that's the theory behind it all
looking at the last sound in the root
word and then working out what the next
sound should be
with root words that end in any sound
other than t and d
there is no extra syllable love is not
loved or loved
it's loved
kicked isn't kick head or kikid it's
kicked no extra syllable but decide is
decided extra syllable test is tested
extra syllable some students prefer to
learn words through studying them in
lists and other students prefer to hear
them spoken and to practice to learn
them in practice we're going to go
through both ways of learning them first
let's look at the list version and then
i will tell you a story using the words
and you have to guess what the
pronunciation is
here are the sounds that come before
id as ed
decided
and here we have the sounds that come
before d
as e d
we have b
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as in
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as in
soothed
as in
called
and then i've included r just so you
know for american english pronunciation
that it would be followed by d
for rp it isn't pronounced remembered
remembered it's pronounced with a d
because it ends with a schwa vowel sound
which is voiced but in american english
the r is pronounced at the end of words
and it would sound something like
remembered
then we have the sounds that come before
azidi the unvoiced sounds
we have
as in helped
as in sniffed
or
laughed
as in
missed
or
danced
as in
asked i know some of my students
struggle with that sound the combination
of
asked
we have ch
as in
matched
sh
as in
washed
as in
unearthed there aren't many ed words
with the f at the end of the root word
now this rule also applies to adjectives
but there are many more exceptions
so some adjectives ending in
we have insulted
or beaded
adjectives ending in a voiced consonant
or a vowel
we have soothed or moved
and unvoiced consonants
distressed
astonished
there are lots of irregular adjectives
that don't follow this rule and they
favor
id at the end
naked
wicked
jagged
rugged there is normally a g or k sound
at the end of the root word
but there are exceptions to the
exceptions
for example beloved
okay now it is time for the activity i
am going to read a story to you
it's filled with words that end in ed
and each time i reach a word that ends
in ed
i'm going to stop for a couple of
seconds to give you the chance to say
how you think it might be pronounced
what ending you think it might have
count your scores and see how many you
get right share your results in the
comment section as i've told you before
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i always
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i had also
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but for some reason seville really
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it had nearly everything i
wanted
so i
promised to myself that i would move
there in the future
i
moved back to the uk to finish my
studies
when i
finished i
rented a room from my parents and
started my teaching business
one day i was
invited to a new year's eve party
i didn't want to go but i
pushed myself
i
noticed a very handsome man there but we
mostly
ignored each other the whole night
one day this man
messaged me
and
asked me if i would participate in a
charity dating show that he had
organized
i
responded with a yes
and
prepared for the event
in the end that man won a date with me
and i
postponed my plans to move to seville
eventually i simply
cancelled them
i
discovered that home is not a place
it's a person
i
have visited seville
every year since
and that's enough for me
true story
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