2018-04-19 Pronunciation: 'ed' and tongue twisters

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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Handout - Chose the correct ‘ed’ ending for each verb
1 t
2 t
3 ed
4 t
5 t
6 d
7 ed
8 t
9 t
10 d
11 d
12 ed
13 d
14 ed
15 d
16 t
17 t
18 ed
19 t
20 d
21 d
22 t
23 d
24 t
25 ed
26 t
27 d
28 t
29 d
30 t
31 t
32 ed
33 ed
34 ed
35 d
36 ed
37 t
38 d
39 ed
40 d
41 t
42 ed
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Two Truths and a Lie - Write three sentences about yourself in the simple past or present perfect, with verbs that end in ‘ed’. Two sentences must be true and the other false. Your classmates will try to guess which one is the lie.
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Tongue-Twisters
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Betty bought a bit of butter,
But her butter made her batter bitter,
So Betty bought a bit of better butter
And made her bitter batter better.
- This one is generally easy to say but hard to understand if you don’t already know what it says.

The sixth Sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick.
- This one isn’t so hard to understand, but is almost impossible to pronounce quickly.

She sells seashells on the seashore, so surely the shells she sells are seashore shells.
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Are the ones in your language more often difficult to say, or fun to say but hard to understand?