IELTS Preparation Series 2, Episode 23: Eco-systems
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hello i'm on go Politis welcome to study English
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outs preparation today we're going to practice
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a pronunciation will say how pronunciation can change when linking
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consonants
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and then we'll practice pronouncing words beginning with H
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let's begin by taking a look at the story
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it's a bad an area in Melbourne that used to be home to the ground in grass
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frog
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it's really would have been a fantastic biodiversity react to the situation
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we've got the Yarra River Epps live
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mating thereby niceee that the freshwater ecosystem
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and AM rain ecosystem coming together at that point
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these growling grass frog sweet hiya
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in the medians you know hundreds of millions of them probably living in
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Melbourne
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and they have disappeared as very very dramatically
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doing conservation with an animal that people recognize
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and way they've had a personal experience up an animal disappearing
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I really night understand the reality of what's happening around them and I want
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to help and we can get lots of people to come along to have it at like this
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insight I want growling grass frog back here for my kids and my grandkids
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because
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when I come down I wanna be out on some tadpoles to show them
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spike in English can be quite different
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from written English when you listen to someone speaking English
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their words will often flow together this is because
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native speakers will connect unstressed where it's
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with stressed words with these links the care
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sentences might stand different to what you'd expect
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have a look at this sentence he's gone out to dinner
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we stress Haiti
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gone out and
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dinner the two is
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unstressed when we link out
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which is stressed and to
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which is unstressed the final
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tet sound in out is held slightly longer
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he's gone out to dinner the
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tet downed is pronounced only one
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he's gone out to dinner now let's listen to gerry from the amphibian Research
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Center
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talking about the grass frog habitat
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we can get lots of people to come along to a habitat like this insight I want
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growling grass frog back here for my kids and my grandkids because
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when I come down I wanna be out on some tadpoles to show them
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Jerry says I want t
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the final te sound in
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want is held slightly longer on the tongue
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then to is pronounced
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that tense sound is pronounced
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onlyone I want to a this type ad linking
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is cold consonant past same consonant
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linking let's see what happens when a final consonant
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is linked with a consonant that similar
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this into how Jerry links the words
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around then
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doing conservation with an animal that people recognize and
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way they've had a personal experience up an animal disappearing
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I really night understand the reality of what's happening around them and i wanna
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help
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Jerry says a random the final
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did sound in around is similar in pronunciation
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to the fest sound in the wood damn this main
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the sounds articulated very close to the same position
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in the now when you articulate
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debt you can feel your tongue against your tooth reach
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like this debt and when you say
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then your tongue is between your top and bottom take
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like this net when you are linking words with similar sounds
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the final consonant and FS consonant
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will be pronounced very close to each other in the mouth
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this is the case with the final death and an issue
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vet sound in around them this type is linking
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is called consonant and similar consonant
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linking United that around
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is stressed but then is
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unstressed Jerry also uses the words
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showed them here showed
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is stressed and then is
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unstressed so we say showed them
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this is Val and consonant
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linking in this example
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Jerry clearly pronounces that netted in then
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listen again
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we can get lots of people to come along to have it at like this insight I want
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growling grass frog back here for my kids and my grandkids because
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when I come down I want to be able to find some tadpoles to show them
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in
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in spoken English change is also a care
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when a word begins with the sound H her
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let's listen to new Blake he's talking about an area they'd like to retain
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native animals and plants today
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you he kneels say would have been fantastic
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listen to his pronunciation of
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would have you might be able to see Neil
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as he's talking but it's good practice for the I'll
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listening test see how you guy it's really would have been a fantastic
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biodiversity react to the situation we've got the Yarra River
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kept alive meeting that by
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Neil says wouldn't when
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unstressed words begin with an ETA H
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there hearst sound is often dropped in connected speech
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here's another example I think he's an amazing
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the word think is stressed
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in this sentence and haiti's is
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unstressed when these words are linked
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the head is dropped in spike in English
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we would say I think he's an amazing some common words that begin with the
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Hess
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sound and a weak forms include
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the pronouns Haiti her
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him and he's there's also these
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Zilla repaired head head
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and heads these pronouns
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and auxiliary heads have by strong and weak
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forms when they %ah unstressed
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their her sound is dropped but
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when stressed behest sound is pronounced
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ok now let's listen to gerry when he says
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they have does he pronounced the her these growling grass frog sweet hiya
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in the medians you know hundreds of millions of them probably living in
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Melbourne
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and they have disappeared as very very dramatically
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because Jerry stressed the auxiliary dead
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have the head sound is pronounced
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he says day have
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side we've seen that when native speakers connect
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speech all links sounds in spoken English
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changes care being aware these changes
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will help you in both the I'll listening test
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and also I in the Speaking test in
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let's practice the pronunciation we've talked about today
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I'll show you a sentence and see if you can pronounce the highlighted words
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he's the first one what
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did you send hair send
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is the strong form and hair its wake
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because hair is not stressed
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we drop the initial hat sound
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sorry it's pronounced send a
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what did you send a and finally
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I told then
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not to be light told them
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I told them not to be light
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and that's all we have today
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let's review what we've learned about linking weds fest we talked about
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consonant
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and same consonant linking the example we saw
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was want to a then
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we looked at consonant and similar consonant linking
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around them and finally
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we saw how the pronunciation on the initial
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have found can change when we link words
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in spike in English don't forget to listen out for these changes when you
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talk with native speakers
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and if you'd like some more pronunciation practice
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you can find help on a study English website
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and I'll see you next time for more bye bye
