Liaison Rule 3: Vowel Vowel When a word ending in a vowel sound is next to one beginning with a vowel sound, they are connected with a glide between the two vowels. A glide is either a slight y sound or a slight w sound. How do you know which one to
Exercise 3-1 : Word-by-Word and in a Sentence that He said th't it's OK. than It's bigger th'n before as 'z soon'z he gets here... at Look' t the time! and ham'n eggs have Where h'v you been had He h'd been at home. can C'n you do it Exercise 3-2: Fi
Exercise 3-6: Reading the Sound When you read the following schwa paragraph, try clenching your teeth the first time. It won't sound completely natural, but it will get rid of all of the excess lip and jaw movement and force your tongue to work harde
Exercise 4-4: Rule 2 Middle of the Staircase An unstressed T in the middle of a staircase between two vowel sounds should be pronounced as a soft D. Betty bought a bit of better butter. Pat ought to sit on a lap. Read the following sentences out loud
Grammar in a Nutshell Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Grammar But Were Afraid to Use English is a chronological language. We just love to know when something happened, and this is indicated by the range and depth of our verb tenses. I had al
Exercise 4-5: Rule 3 Bottom of the Staircase T at the bottom of a staircase is in the held position. 1. She hit the hot hut with her hat. 2. We went to that 'Net site to get what we needed. 3. Pat was quite right, wasn't she? 4. What? Put my hat back
Exercise 4-6: Rule 4: Held T before end The held T is, strictly speaking, not really a T at all. 1. He's forgotten the carton of satin mittens. 2. She's certain that he has written it. 3. The cotton curtain is not in the fountain. 4. The hikers went
Exercise 4-7: Rule 5 The Silent T t and n are so close in the mouth that the t can simply disappear. Repeat.1. interview 2. interface 3. Internet 4. interstate 5. interrupt 6. interfere 7. interactive 8. international 9. advantage 10. percentage 11.
Exercise 4-8: Rule 5 The Silent T Read the following sentences out loud. Make sure that the underlined Ts are silent. 1.He had a great interview. 2.Try to enter the information. 3.Turn the printer on. 4.Finish the printing. 5.She's at the internation
Exercise 4-9: Karina's T Connections Here are some extremely common middle T combinations. Repeat after me: What But That What I But I That I Exercise 4-10: Combinations in Context Repeat the following sentences. 1. I don't know what it means. 2. But
Exercise 4-11 : Voiced and Unvoiced Sounds with T This exercise is for the practice of the difference between words that end in either a vowel or a voiced consonant, which means that the vowel is lengthened or doubled. Therefore, these words are on a
Exercise 4-12: Finding American T Sounds Once again, go over the following familiar paragraph. First, find all the T's that are pronounced D (there are nine to thirteen here). Second, find all the held Ts (there are seven). The first one of each is m
Chapter 5 The El This chapter discusses the sound of L (not to be confused with that of the American R, which is covered in the next chapter). We'll approach this sound first, by touching on the difficulties it presents to foreign speakers of English
Exercise 5-1: Sounds Comparing L with T, D, and N For this exercise, concentrate on the different ways in which the air comes out of the mouth when producing each sound of L, T, D, and N. Look at the drawings included here, to see the correct positio
Exercise 5-4: Many Final Els This time, simply hold the L sound extra long. Repeat after me. 1.fill 2.full 3.fool 4.fail 5.fell 6.feel 7.fuel 8.furl
Exercise 5-5: Liaise the Ls As you work with the following exercise, here are two points you should keep in mind. When a word ends with an L sound, either (a) connect it to the next word if you can, or (b) add a slight schwa for an exaggerated [l崂
Exercise 5-6: Finding L Sounds Pause the CD, and find and mark all the L sounds in the familiar paragraph below; the first one is marked for you. There are seventeen of them; five are silent. Afterwards, check Answer Key, beginning on page 193. Exerc
Exercise 5-8: Hold Your Tongue! You and I are going to read with our tongues firmly held at the roofs of our mouths. If you want, hold a clean dime there with the tongue's tip; the dime will let you know when you have dropped your tongue because it w
Exercise 5-9: Little Lola Now that we've done this, instead of L being a hard letter to pronounce, it's the easiest one because the tongue is stuck in that position. Pause the CD to practice the reading on your own, again, with your tongue stuck to t
Exercise 5-2: Sounds Comparing L with T, D, and N Repeat after me, first down and then across. 1. At the beginning of a word law low lee gnaw know knee taw toe tea daw dough D law gnaw taw daw low know toe dough lee knee tea D 2. In the middle of a w
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