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- Greg Malivuk
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- p. 15 - Listen to the fast version of the conversation and underline sounds that are pronounced differently.
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- flapped ‘t’: in words like “city” and “water”
- “Siri” and “city” should sound different. It’s NOT the English ‘r’ sound, but it might sound like ‘r’ in your language.
- This is usually how we pronounce ‘t’ and ‘d’ between two vowels, when the next vowel doesn’t have stress.
- atom / Adam - flapped ‘t’ and ‘d’ in these words
- attempt - full pronunciation of ‘t’, because the second vowel is stressed
- I’ve got to go. -> I(ve) gotta go. (flapped ‘t’, because “to” is not stressed)
- 20 is often pronounced like “twenny”, “going to” -> “gonna”, “want to” -> “wanna”
- If ‘nt’ is between vowels (and the next vowel isn’t stressed), we may not pronounce ‘t’ at all.
- 70 - I pronounce it like “sevendy”. It has the sound from “city”, not the sound from “twenty”
- Most of the tens (20, 30, 40, 70, 80, 90) have flapped ‘t’ at the end because “ty” is not stressed.
- The teens (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19) have stress on “teen”, so the ‘t’ is pronounced fully.
- (fifty and sixty don’t have vowels before the ‘t’, so we don’t flap the pronunciation)
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- “interesting” - I pronounce it like “intresting”, so the ‘t’ isn’t between vowels and it gets full pronunciation
- “comfortable” - I pronounce it like “comfterbul”, so the ‘t’ isn’t between vowels again
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- p. 18 - pronunciation of past tense -ed endings:
- decided, needed, visited, wanted - if the verb ends with /t/ or /d/, pronounce the full syllable /əd/
- worked, watched, laughed, talked - if the verb ends with a voiceless consonant, pronounce /t/
- studied, played, loved, traveled - if the verb ends with a voiced sound, pronounce /d/
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- part A - underline the instances where the letter ‘t’ will be flapped like a ‘d’
- 1 What a beautiful sweater! Did you get it when you went shopping last Saturday?
- 2 My parents ordered a bottle of champagne for their anniversary.
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- Homework: do the same thing for the rest of the sentences on p. 18
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