2016-09-15 Idioms: shopping, food, flapped 't'

Greg Malivuk
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Homework: p. 13-14 - Shopping and cooking idioms.
1 c (5)
2 a (7)
3 e (because the cash register might ring a bell when the drawer is opened) (10)
4 g (1)
5 f (We almost never say “checkers” for cashiers.) (9)
6 j (slash = cut) (2)
7 i (4)
8 d (6)
9 h (8)
10 b (3)
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Listen to the conversation. What order do you hear the words?
Listen again. What sounds do they reduce?
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Pronunciation reduction: “flapping” ‘t’ and ‘d’
- The flap in American English is the sound in the middle of “city” and “water”.
We flap ‘t’ and ‘d’ between vowels.
We DON’T flap the ‘t’ in “attach” or “attack”, but we do in “letter” and “batter”. Why?
	Because in “attach” and “attack”, the vowel after the ‘t’ has stress (strong pronunciation).

We flap ‘t’ and ‘d’ between vowels if the vowel after it is unstressed.

We sometimes don’t pronounce ‘t’ at all if it’s after ‘n’ and before an unstressed vowel:
	“twenty”, “want to”, “going to” -> “twenny”, “wanna”, “gonna”
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p. 18 exercise A - Which ‘t’s are flapped in these sentences?
1 WhaT a beauTiful sweaTer! Did you geT it when you went shopping last SaTurday?
	(“it” and “went” - the ‘t’ is sort of “swallowed” to be the “uh-oh” sound)
	(“last Saturday” - the ‘t’ at the end of “last” might be dropped completely)
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Homework: finish p. 18 exercise A