2017-07-17 Vocab: at the party, "didja"

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - Notes from all my classes
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What are idioms?
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Handout p. 1-2 - With your partner, use the pictures and the sentences to guess the meanings of each idiom or slang term on p. 2.
1 b - 1
2 b - 2
3 a - 6
4 a - 7
5 b - 9
6 a - 5
7 b - 10
8 b - 8
9 b - 4
10 b - 3
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Listen to the (fast version of the) conversation. In what order do they use the idioms?
p. 5 part C - Listen again and notice how the pronunciations change in native speech.
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Pronunciation: y -> j/ch
Inside words, there are four pronunciation changes we make even for formal speech:
d + y -> j: graduate, schedule
z + y -> zh: vision
t + y -> ch: future, picture, fracture (or -> sh: nation, administration, etc.)
s + y -> sh: mission, sure
(If you don’t pronounce these words like this, it’s incorrect.)
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Between words, in fast speech, the changes for t and d still happen:
t + y -> ch: let you / “letchu”, don’t you / “doncha”
d + y -> j: did you / “didju”, would you / “wouldja”
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Listen to my sentences. Write the correct words that I’m saying.
1 What did you do?
2 I want you to leave.
3 Didn’t you finish your homework?
4 Why don’t you get your car fixed?
5 Is that your book?
6 Did you eat yet? No, did you?
- In stressed words, the vowel is pronounced completely, so the second “did you” sounds like “didju”.
- In unstressed words, the vowel is often a schwa, so the first “did you” sounds like “didja”.
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p. 12 - Ask your partner each question, then respond with “yes” or “no”, and a sentence with the idiom in bold.
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Homework: p. 11 part B - from memory, see if you can choose the correct option to complete each sentence.