Exercises To Understand Real English, part 2

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Are you ready to continue boosting your comprehension and understanding real spoken English?

Then

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get a piece of paper

and keep watching this video.

I’m Christina and you’re watching Speak Better, Feel Great TV.

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Today’s video continues our special interactive exercises

that will help you feel more confident about understanding Americans.

You ready?

First, if you didn’t watch the comprehension exercises from Part 1 in Understanding Real Spoken English,

do it now.

Then come back to do these exercises.

Go on—it’s really important to do those exercises first.

and If you’ve already completed those exercises, let’s start,

so you can improve your comprehension now.

AND also improve your pronunciation.

really fantastic, I know.

First, will do short expressions,

and then we do complete sentences.

After this video, you’ll be on your way to understanding Americans

the way they really talk

and making it easier for them

to understand you.

piece of paper

pencil

go get them.

Here we go

I'll say a short expession

and you write what you hear.

I'll say each expression twice.

Number 1

Number 2

and number 3

Number 4

Here are the expressions you heard:

Number 1

Number 2

Number 3

and number 4

Now

say each expression to yourself,

or

go back and listen again.

Then,

Put an asterisk in the place of the weak schwa sound, like this:

for the expression “a lot of”

You wrote:

a lot of

Now, put an asterik in the place of the weak schwas

* lot *

Pause the video while you do this for the other expressions and then come back

and we'll check.

Here are the answers:

How did you do?

Now, we're gonna increase the challenge a little bit.

I’ll say 4 short

but complete sentences.

and you write the sentences that you hear.

I’ll say each sentence

twice.

Here we go.

Number 2

Number 3

and number 4

Here are the sentences you heard.

Now,

pause the video

and put asteriks in the place of the weak schwa sounds,

Just like in the last exercise.

and then comeback to check.

Here are the answers:

Notice that even without the weak words, you can sometimes

globally understand the message,

Now sometimes

you may think that you globally understand

but you might not feel confident about it.

That will come with practice.

If you want to work specifically on your pronunciation of weak sounds,

watch this video again.

Pause it where you see the transcriptions with the asteriks

and practice saying the sentences.

Just replace the asteriks with

that's it for today.

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