2018-10-04 Pronunciation: IPA, tongue-twisters

Greg Malivuk
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Homework: Try your best to write the rest of these sayings.
Bonus: Do you understand what they mean?
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/ə ˈstɪʧ ɪn ˈtaɪm seɪvz 'naɪn/ = A stitch in time saves nine.
/ˈheɪst meks ˈweɪst/ = Haste makes waste.
/'slow ən 'stɛdi 'wɪnz ðə 'reɪs/ = Slow and steady wins the race.
/ə ˈbərd ɪn ðə ˈhænd ɪz wərθ ˈtuw ɪn ðə ˈbʊʃ/ = A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
/ə ˈpərsənz ə ˈpərsən no ˈmætr haʊ ˈsmɑl/ = A person’s a person no matter how small.
/tə ˈbiː or ˈnɑt tə ˈbi ˈðæt ɪz ðə ˈkwɛsʧən/ = To be, or not to be: That is the question.
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For many expressions like this, we often say just the first half:
A stitch in time…
Slow and steady…
A bird in the hand…
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Tongue-twisters:

It’s a bad bed, Bud, but there’s no bedbugs and it’s not a bad bath.
Why did Vader bother the bather’s brother?
Hed had had her head hit hard.
Study steadily.

Betty bought a bit of butter,
But her butter made her batter bitter,
So Betty bought a bit of better butter
To make her bitter batter better.
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In your group of three, write a tongue-twister (one sentence) with sounds you and your partners find difficult in English.
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He had had a lot of haters but his haters had never done something like he had.
The boy bit a bit of beef in a big boat behind his boss because he bet to buy a big beef but he got a big boat.
Bigfoot in a good mood could put two *foot in one boot.
Bella *bells bells well.