hello everybody and welcome back to love English the channel where we want to
make you fall in love with learning English I'm Sabrah and I'm a British
University English teacher now today I have a lesson for you on advanced
listening practice
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so guys the first part of this advanced listening practice video is going to be
a dictation so I'm going to be saying eight sentences you're going to be
writing them down and we'll see how accurate you are so it's really a
listening for accuracy and listening for how well you actually manage to listen
to all of that and get the sentence down correctly now a question that recently
lots of you have been asking is how come I understand you and Leila and lots of
other YouTube teachers and I can't understand Netflix and movies and things
like that, lots of you have been asking this question so today I kind of want to
show you why it might be that you're not understanding for example Netflix and
series and American movies and there are many many reasons for that, but what I'm
going to show you in this lesson is that first of all words change a lot when
they're pushed together and also the speed may be different to what you're
used to so the phonemes can really change when
we push words together and this is called connected speech and in a lot of the
sentences we're going to listen to you're going to hear elision and maybe
also some assimilation in these sentences we're going to be focusing on
helping you to understand connected speech and also to understand a slightly
faster speech and I'm actually going to say these sentences three times because
they're quite long and I'm making it as natural as possible and we'll analyze
these sentences and really help you to actually understand what is going on in
those sentences so for this first exercise guys you're going to need a pen
and some paper and of course you're going to need these. Guys if you really
want to test your listening do also make sure that you turn off the subtitles for
this video or at least for this part otherwise you are
going to see the sentences and it won't really be a listening test so turn those
subtitles off number one the shed is shut today so you'll have to put your
bike outside remember to lock it though the shed is shut today so you'll have to
put your bike outside remember to lock it though the shed is shut today so
you'll have to put your bike outside remember to lock it though number two I
had the fish dish in the restaurant last night what did you have ?I had the
fish dish in the restaurant last night what did you have? I had the fish dish in
the restaurant last night what did you have? Number three she had
to rush to catch the bus this morning I think she overslept she had to rush to
catch the bus this morning I think she overslept she had to rush to catch the
bus this morning I think she overslept number four can we travel by ship I
really want to go on a cruise ship it's cheaper than you think can we travel by
ship I really want to go on a cruise ship it's cheaper than you think
can we travel by ship I really want to go on a cruise ship it's cheaper than
you think number five my mum can chats a lot she's always
chatting when she goes to the shops my mum can chat a lot she's always
chatting when she goes to the shops number six there was a dog barking in
the park I think it might have been lost there was a dog barking in the park I
think it might have been lost there was a dog barking in the park I think it might
have been lost. Number seven she'll probably want a snack when she gets
back she'll be tired and hungry she'll probably want a snack when she gets
back she'll be tired and hungry number eight I could have become a lawyer I'd
be making a lot of money by now, I should have listened to my parents I could have
become a lawyer I'd be making a lot of money by now, I should have listened to
my parents I could have become a lawyer I'd be
making a lot of money by now I should have listened to my parents okay guys how did
you do on those do you think? I hope you manage to write them down I know it was
a little bit fast but it's a really good listening challenge for you now we're
going to go through each one and I'm going to explain to you the difficult
things about each of those that made those sentences particularly challenging
to listen to and how learning about these kind of things can actually help
you to understand fast native speakers in the future so number one here we have
the sh sound repeated twice this can be a little confusing, next we have the b and
the p sound these can easily be confused as they can sound quite similar
p is unvoiced b is voiced finally we have you'll this is you will so this is
elision these words have been pushed together and we've lost the 'w' sound
you'll. Number two again we have the sh sound twice the fish dish then we have
some assimilation in what did you have what did you have assimilation is where
the phoneme in one word can affect the phoneme in the next word and it can
actually change the sound so here did you becomes did ja did ja so it
actually becomes a j sound instead of a y number three we have sh and ch
together here which can be a little confusing ch being a shorter sound
you'll also notice that to in fast speech becomes to would you liked to
for example instead of would you like to would you like to do this this is to
make it easier so it's said as a schwa number four again we have b and
p together these can be confusing especially if you don't have the
difference with these sounds in your language
make sure you heard those correctly we also have assimilation here with want to
want to gets pushed together and becomes wanna
in this one we have sh and ch together a lot this is almost like a
sh and ch tongue twister just remember that ch is a shorter sound and more air
is pushed through the mouth to make this sound number six here we have elision again in
might've might've so we don't say might have we lose that h and a sound and
it becomes might've and it's just an 've sound also in fast speech you'll notice
that an e sound in been can get shortened to become the shorter sound
which is the i so it can become been where have you been instead of been
number seven we have elision on she'll again it's that 'll sound which is the
contracted will which you need to listen carefully for as it's easy to miss
elision here again with could've instead of could have becomes could've also
could have and should have sometimes in fast speech get changed to coulda I
could have done this I should have done that and it just becomes a schwa an a
sound okay everybody I do hope you got a lot of those sentences correct I'm sure
you did so well done on that I do hope this video was helpful guys and it was
some good listening practice as well as giving you some tools for how to
understand fast native speakers and more difficult listening passages let me know
how you got on with those guys I love seeing how you're getting on and what
progress you're making so in the second section of this advanced listening
practice video I'm going to be reading you a passage from Game of Thrones which
if you've seen my recent video on it which is just up there you'll know I'm a
big fan of that and I'm also a big advocate of actually listening to
audiobooks to improve your listening and also to improve your vocabulary so I'm
going to give you a little taster of what it's like to listen to an audiobook
by reading you a passage from Game of Thrones the beginning passage we'll see
you soon on love English everybody thanks so much for watching bye bye