7 Listen, check and repeat.
(Nghe kiem tra va lặp lại.)
Các bài tập cùng chuyên đề
4. Read the Pronunciation box. Listen again and repeat the examples.
(Đọc khung Phát âm. Nghe lại và lặp lại các ví dụ.)
PRONUNCIATION Features of fast speech (linking, assimilation)
1 Consonants are sometimes inserted between two vowel sounds:
two eggs sounds like two weggs
three eggs sounds like three yeggs
four eggs sounds like four reggs
2 Consonants at the end of words (especially n, d and t sounds) change when the nextword also begins with a consonant:
ten pounds sounds like tem pounds
band practice sounds like bam practice
Did you ... ? sounds like Dij je ... ?
3 Sounds, usually consonants, sometimes disappear:
Let's go sounds like Les go
What's your name? sounds like Wos your name?
5 Match each sentence you wrote down in exercise 3 with a point in the Pronunciation box.
(Nối mỗi câu bạn viết trong bài tập 3 với một điểm trong khung Phát âm.)
6 Read the sentences (1-6) aloud. Each contains one feature of fast speech from the Pronunciation box. Can you say where in the sentence it occurs?
(Đọc to các câu (1-6). Mỗi cái chứa một tính năng nói nhanh từ hộp Phát âm. Bạn có thể nói nó xảy ra ở đâu trong câu không?)
1 I've got two or three dictionaries. (point 1)
2 Is this your address? (point 1)
3 I've got a bad cough. (point 2)
4 We went ten-pin bowling. (point 2)
5 She's my best friend. (point 3)
6 This coffee tastes bad. (point 3)
3 Listen to the sentences from the text. Write down one or two features of fast speech that you hear in each.
(Nghe các câu trong văn bản. Viết ra một hoặc hai đặc điểm của lời nói nhanh mà bạn nghe được trong mỗi đặc điểm đó.)
1 My sister was born with big, blue eyes...
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2 She looked like an angel.
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3 This was not good news for me.
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4 Sometimes I pushed her away.
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5 Later, when I got better at school...
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