US ELECTIONS 2020 | English Vocabulary | American Election | Go Natural English

Hello Naturals, how are you? I'm your English teacher

Gabby and today I'm excited to be sharing

a free English lesson with you from the Oval Office.

This is a special themed lesson to help you to talk about

politics. Now this lesson

we're going to focus on pronunciation. Individual

sounds and stress within a word. You know

most people think that the individual sounds of English are the

most challenging but actually the stress of how to

pronounce English words correctly is just as

challenging, if not more challenging. So in today's

lesson that's what we're going to take a look at.

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Communication, which can help you to develop your English

fluency with confidence. Now in this free lesson

I'm going to share several vocabulary words with you

that are specific to discussing politics and

we'll take a look at the stress and some individual sounds

that we need to be really careful with.

So let's begin. We have the word politics.

Of course if we're discussing politics we need to be able to use

the word politics. Talking about our government

is talking about politics. But the stress in

this word can change depending on the word form.

In the word POL-i-tics we have three

syllables, right? And the first syllable is stressed.

POL-i-tics. Sounds like music, right?

Please repeat after me if you'd like to practice while you're watching.

POL-i-tics. Also we hae POL-i-cy.

Policy is a rule or a law.

We have a change when we change this word to the adjective

form, pol-I-ti-cal.

Political. Political debates.

These are discussions that the candidates have (or Presidential Debates)

to discuss how they feel about different policies.

And we have pol-i-TI-cian, a candidate

is a politician or a person who works in

politics. We have a

very important topic within politics surrounded by

money and jobs and imports, exports,

labor. This is e-CON-o-my.

E-CON-o-my. If we change this to the adjective

form it becomes e-con-OM-ics.

Economics. You see where we put the stress? It changed, right?

Now, candidate is a word that I mentioned

before, a person who is running for political

office and finally we want to know

who will become PRES-i-dent.

President, emphasis on the first syllable.

If we change this word to an adjective we would say pres-i-DENT-ial.

A presidential debate is when

the presidential candidates discuss

their ideas about policies. And

we elect a president through our

electoral collage. This is a concept that I'll

explain in another video lesson. This one we're focusing

on pronunciation. E-LEC-tor-al COL-lege.

So now that we've talked about the stress a bit, I want to

focus in on one or two sounds actually.

We have to be careful with the L and the R sound.

Especially when we're talking about elections.

To make the L sound, you see I put my tongue behind my

top front teeth, "luh," and to make the R

sound, I round my lips and my tongue is not touching anything

in my mouth it's simply in the middle, "err."

Now, listen to a word like "president"

we have two consonants back-to-back.

So, the mistake would be to say

Pu-res-ident. We want to combine these

two sounds to put them smoothly together.

President.

Presidential election. Excellent!

I'm so glad that you're improving your

pronunciation and your fluency with me so I'm very

proud of you for watching. Thank you for watching.

I appreciate it and if you enjoyed this, please share this video

with your friends so that you can discuss the presidential election

together. Thank you so much and I hope to see you

soon! Bye for now.