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    English Speaking by Teacher Moon

    Connected Speech
    ● When we speak naturally, we do not pronounce a word, stop, then say the next word
    in the sentence.
    ● Fluent speech flows with a rhythm and the words bump into each other.
    ● To make speech flow smoothly the way we pronounce the end and beginning of some
    words can change depending on the sounds at the beginning and end of those words.
    ● These changes are described as features of connected speech.
    Examples
    ● What are you going to do?
    ● Whaddya gonna do?
    ● You need to stop it right now.
    ● You neeto stopit right now.
    ● Get out of here!
    ● Get outta here!

    #1 Consonant to vowel

    ● Not at all. (Nodadall)


    ● I’m on my way. (I’mon my way)
    ● Hold on. (Holdon)

    #2 Consonant to consonant

    ● Dark gray (dargray)


    ● Need to (neeto)
    ● Feel lucky (feelucky)
    ● This style (thistyle)
    ● Black cat (blackat)
    ● Red dress (redress)
    ● Hot tomato (hotomato)

    #3 vowel to vowel

    ● two apples (twowapples)


    ● she asked (sheyasked)
    ● go out (gowout)
    ● see Anna (seeyAnna)
    English Speaking by Teacher Moon
    Practice

    ● There’s an apple in the tree.


    ● I ate an apple and a banana, too.
    ● There’s a big gorilla looking right at me.
    ● She asked for a glass of water.
    ● When Anna met Andrew she asked him to go on a date.
    ● I always sleep better when it’s dark.
    ● I need to see you right away.
    ● The sky was dark gray all day.
    ● I fell in the swimming pool and Amy fell in, too.
    ● These are delicious strawberries.
    Word stress

    ● Most nouns and adjectives with two syllables usually have stress on the first syllable.
    ● Most verbs with two syllables usually have stress on the second syllable.

    Nouns Verbs

    CONflict conFLICT
    CONtrast conTRAST
    CONvict conVICT
    INsult inSULT
    OBject obJECT
    PROject proJECT
    PREsent preSENT
    REcord reCORD
    SUspect susPECT

    Words that end with ‘tion’, ‘sion’, ‘-ic’

    ● Education
    ● Information
    ● Revision
    ● Scientific
    ● Economic
    ● Dynamic
    English Speaking by Teacher Moon
    Words that end with ‘er’ and ‘-ly’

    For three-syllable words ending with the suffixes er or ly, the stress is placed on the first
    syllable.

    ● ORderly
    ● SIlently
    ● LOvingly
    ● MAnager
    ● GARdener
    ● EAsier

    Sentence stress

    ● Content words are words that have meaning. Nouns, main verbs, adjectives and
    adverbs are usually content words.
    ● Auxiliary verbs, pronouns, articles, and prepositions are usually
    grammatical/structured words.
    English Speaking by Teacher Moon

    ● The rules are for what is called "neutral" or normal stress. But sometimes we can
    stress a word that would normally be only a structured word, for example to correct
    information.

    "They've been to Mongolia, haven't they?"

    "No, THEY haven't, but WE have."

    ● Note also that when "be" is used as a main verb, it is usually unstressed—even
    though as a main verb it is also a content word.

    Examples

    ● If you can, call me in the morning.


    ● If you CAN, CALL me in the MORNING.
    ● They went to Mandalay to visit their parents.
    ● They WENT to MANDALAY to VISIT their PARENTS.
    ● If we cook, could you wash the dishes?
    ● If we COOK, could you WASH the DISHES?

    Intonation Practice

    ● Check it OUT if you WANT to.


    ● I’d LOVE to GO there someday.
    ● I’ll CALL you after LUNCH.
    ● I’m NOT in the MOOD for that.
    ● I need a BREAK before the NEXT one.

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