Connected Speech - Weak forms
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This document discusses connected speech and weak forms in English. It begins by explaining that connected speech refers to how words are pronounced together in fast, casual speech. It then focuses on schwa, explaining that unstressed vowels are often reduced to a schwa sound. Function words like pronouns, auxiliaries, and prepositions are more likely to take weak forms and be reduced to schwa. In contrast, content words like nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs usually maintain their strong forms. The document provides examples of words in weak and strong forms. It suggests awareness raising activities and jazz chants as ways to help learners notice and produce weak forms in connected speech.
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Connected Speech - Weak forms
- 1. Connected Speech - weak forms Jo Gakonga
- 10. Schwa
- 11. Any vowel can be sounded as schwa important material
- 12. Any vowel can be sounded as schwa paper ferocious
- 13. Any vowel can be sounded as schwa tangible giraffe
- 14. Any vowel can be sounded as schwa introduce phonetics (but not phoneme..)
- 15. Any vowel can be sounded as schwa picture neighbour
- 16. In fact, most unstressed vowels sound like… Homer Simpson = Oo Oo
- 18. English is a stress- timed language There was a man from Hull
- 19. There was an old man from London
- 20. There was an extremely old man from Birmingham
- 21. Can he move it? Yes, he can!
- 22. Weak form Can he move it? /kən/
- 23. Strong form /kæn/ Yes, he can!
- 24. Where are you going? /weərəjəgəʊɪŋ/ What do you do? /wɒdəjədu:/
- 25. Which words in these sentences ‘weaken’ (change) to a schwa sound? What kind of words are they? Some modals I can swim. The water will be very cold! He’ll be fine.
- 26. Have you been to Australia? It couldn’t have been me! Auxiliaries - have Pronouns
- 27. She is meeting Thelma at one. She’s coming from Birmingham Auxiliaries – be Prepositions It’s not long to wait now.
- 28. Content words Nouns Verbs Adjectives Adverbs Function words Pronouns Auxilliaries Modals Prepositions No weak forms Have weak forms Bricks Mortar
- 29. Do we need to teach this?
- 32. A practical idea or two…
- 34. The Book of Pronunciation by Jonathan Marks and Tim Bowen DELTA Teacher Development Series
- 35. Awareness raising activities 1. a) I didn’t know that. b) I didn’t know that he came from Sweden 2. a) She wanted to see him again. b) What’s the world coming to? 3. a) Have you seen Peter? b)What did you have for lunch?
- 36. Awareness raising activities 1. five /ə/ clock 2. one /ə/ two days 3. /ə/ cup /ə/ tea 4. What /ə/ you doing? 5. We definitely could /ə/played better. 6. I haven’t seen /ə/ for ages.
- 38. Production -Jazz chants Can you understand me? Yes, I can Do you speak English? Yes, I do Have you ever been to England? Yes, I have. But the weather was very bad! (Joe Avery’s Blues) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blVq-G1DBOQ