2017-07-18 Vocab: at the market, flapped 't'

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - Notes from all my classes
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Homework: p. 11 part B - from memory, see if you can choose the correct option to complete each sentence.
1 upset
2 muscular
3 on
4 blast
5 up
6 of
7 hair
8 mean
9 case
10 No
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p. 10 part A - Does each exchange makes sense?
1 yes
2 yes
3 no
4 no
5 yes
6 yes
7 no
8 yes
9 no
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p. 13-14 - Use the sentences (and the pictures, if they help) to figure out the meanings of these expressions.
1 C
2 A
3 E
4 G
5 F (We don’t really say this.)
6 J
7 I
8 D
9 H
10 B
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p. 17 - Listen to both versions of the conversation and notice which sounds are changed.
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Pronunciation - flapped ‘t’ (and ‘d’)
When most Americans say a phrase like, “a bottle of city water”, the letter ‘t’ doesn’t sound like it would at the beginning of a word like “tiger”.
The flapped-t sound is a little closer to a ‘d’, but it is faster than the ‘d’ in “day”.
Rules:
- If the ‘t’ is between vowel sounds AND the second vowel is unstressed, it is flapped.
	(Before ‘t’, ‘r’ count as a “vowel” for this rule.)
- After ‘n’, the ‘t’ might be completly silent, as in “twenty” -> “twenny” or “want to” -> “wanna”
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Pronunciation: “ed” endings in regular past-tense verbs
- pronounce like “id” when the verb ends with a /t/ or /d/ sound (wanted, needed, etc.)
- pronounce like /t/ when the verb ends with an unvoiced consonant (like /p/, /f/, /k/, etc.)
- pronounce like /d/ everywhere else (when the verb ends with a voiced consonant or a vowel)
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Homework: p. 18 part A - Underline the places where a ‘t’ will be flapped in normal American speech.
1 What a beautiful sweater. Did you get it when you went shopping last Saturday?