Exercices Pour Comprendre l'Anglais Parlé - Exercises To Understand Real English, part 1

EC-O-NOM-IC

ekuhnomic

a lot of it

a lotuhv it

What do you want to do?

What you wanna do?

Which ones are easy to understand?

These,

the clearly articulated ones.

But

Which ones are the way people speak?

Yep

these.

The horrible ones.

Sorry.

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

The place to boost your English and boost your career.

In the last video, you learned all about the schwa.Remember?

And I promised you some interactive exercises to help you boost your comprehension

(and your pronunciation too!),

so let’s get to work.

You ready?

First, if you do watch Speak Better, Feel Great TV.on pronunciation, Syllables treast, , do that now.

Then come back to work on your comprehension.

Go on—it’s really important to watch that video first.

And If you’ve already watched it

Then , let’s start.

These exercises are great

because they kill two birds with one stone,

which saves you time

you can improve your comprehension

AND

improve your pronunciation.

at the same time

Awesome

right?

First, we’ll focus on words

then

short expressions

And After this video,

you’ll be on your way to understanding Americans the way really speak

and making it easier for them to understand you.

Today,

you’ll need a piece of paper

and

a pen or a pencil

Because

You’re going to be writing!

Let’s start with individual words.

I’ll say 5 words.

You

Write them down.

Then

underline the weak syllables,

where you hear the schwa sound.

Do you remember the schwa sound.

It’s a weak, Syllable like

“uh”

for example

the 2nd syllable in word “economic”.

E - Cuh- NOM-IC.

E - Cuh- NOM-IC.

Cuh

Cuh

That the schwa

okay here we get

Number 1

again

again

Number 2

celebrate

celebrate

Number 3

president

president

Number 4

oppose

oppose

Number 5

support

support

Don't forget to you underline

where you here

“uh”

Go, yet

Let’s check the word and the weak syllable

again

celebrate

president

oppose

support

Notice that any vowel can represent the schwa sound.

In these words, you have each vowel

A - E- I -O - U,

but

they’re all pronounced

“uh”

Again,

celebrate,

president,

oppose,

support.

Now,

let’s try something more challenging

Short expressions

Again,

I’ll say a short expression

you

Write the expression that you hear

And I’ll say each expression twice

you i'll get

Number 1

a couple of

a couple of

Number 2

do you have a

do you have a

Number 3

so we can

so we can

Number 4

go to the

go to the

And

Number 5

I’m gonna be

I’m gonna be

Here are the expressions you heard

a couple of

do you have a

so we can

go to the

and

I’m going to be

Now,

say each expression to yourself,

or

go back and listen again

Put an asterisk in the place of the weak schwa sound,

like this

a couple of

You wrote

a couple of

And put an asterik in the place of the weak schwas sound

like this

* c*ple *

Pause the video while you do this

and then

come back to check

Here are the answers

d* y* have *

so we c*n

go t* th*

*’m g*nn* be

Do you see which types of words are weak?

Generally, the little words like

the

to

and

of

which become

the

to

and

up

but

sometimes, there are more important words like

can

and “do”

that are also weak

that become

can

and

do

This takes some work to get used to

And The more you listen in English

the more your ear will get used to the sounds real spoken english

so

listen to as much English as you can

series, movies, podcasts, videos, anything

Really flood your ears with English

and

If you want more practice on understanding real spoken English

check out part 2 of these interactive exercises

We’re going to increase the challenge

to help you boost your English

and boost your career

that's it for today

Now

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I’m Christina, from Speak Better, Feel Great TV

See you next time!