English Speaking and Listening Skills – Session 5 The Macao New Chinese Youth Association

Rundown 1. Session 4 recap 2. Session 1 revision 3. Session 2 revision 4. Session 3 revision 5. Go through the learning objectives 6. Funny little videos clips 7. Learn English through songs

Session 4 Recap American Accent Training for Chinese First Language Speakers Articulators ( 發音器官 ) First step: Full range of the motion from side to side: jaw ( 顎 ), mouth, lips 1. Many Chinese speakers are moving only one side 2. If you keep your mouth relatively closed, it sounds different 3. Make sure your articulators are working before you go forward

Session 4 - Accent Reduction American Accent Training for Chinese First Language Speakers Next step: Air flow 1. You need to link the words, and you need to breath to do so 2. Get the air come out of the mouth when you speak 3. Record your speech 4. Many Chinese speakers tend to truncate, shorten, or take off the ending. A word like “Test” has become like “Tes”. Make the last sound loud so that your brain may know that it is important

Session 4 - Accent Reduction American Accent Training for Chinese First Language Speakers 5. It’s important to know the rule of “voiced” & “voiceless” 6. Suggestion: breathing, voicing, awareness 7. Keep working the air flow, keep working with the mouth 8. Use the mouth, jaw, air flow, and voicing

Idioms 1.To grab a bite = to quickly eat a meal 2.Pick = choice 3.To have good taste = to have good ideas or choices 4.To end up = to finish with; the results 5.Take it easy! = do not work so hard, relax 6.To give it a shot = to try something new 7.To have something on your mind = to be thinking about something 8.To go out = to go on a date (romantic) 9.To be of like mind = to have the same ideas 10.To be dying to… = to want something very much

Session 1 Recap – Connected Speech Hospital Commercial 41B C650A2557A13 Daddy’s going to be so excited! That killed him! That killedim! Stressed words Connected speech

Stress Patterns

Session 1 Recap Spoken English: Stress in phrases and sentences Content words: nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, (Stressed) demonstrative pronouns, numbers, question words, interjections, long prepositions Function words: articles, most pronouns, verb to (Unstressed) be, short prepositions and conjunction, modal verbs, helping verbs

Exercise - Stress Autumn is coming. I saw them yesterday. She loves to see the moon. He wants to return it to me. If you want a better view, …. The bee grew annoyed.

Answers Autumn is coming. I saw them yesterday. She loves to see the moon. He wants to return it to me. If you want a better view, …. The bee grew annoyed.

Connected Speech What time is it? (Written English) (What-tim-mi-sit?) (Spoken English) How much is it? (How-muc-chi-sit?) Tell him what you want. (Te-lim-wha-cho-wahnt)

Idioms and Accent Reduction " Piece of Cake", "Hang On", "Pay through the Nose" IPA (US) (UK) “Th” sound: "f" and "v": 's' and 'z':

Session 2 Recap - Listening & Speaking T – D (water -> wader, later -> ladder C – G (welcome - > welgome, skills – > sgills) P – b (spring -> sbring, spell -> sbell About -> bot, Have -> ave, And -> n You ate too much, I like deep purple.

Listening & Speaking (Cont..) Accent Reduction Alphabet Pronunciation 5 Goups: “i” vowel : Group 1 (C, D, E, G, P, T, V, Z) “e” vowel : Group 2 (F, L, M, N, S, X) “ei” vowel : Group 3 (A, H, J, K) “u” vowel : Group 4 (Q, U, W) “ai” vowel : Group 5 (I, Y) Leftovers : O, R

Word Stress “REcord”- “reCORD” “CONtract”-“conTRACT” “DEsert” -“deSERT” “INsult” -“inSULT” “OBject”-“obJECT” “PROject” - “proJECT” Accent Reduction

Idioms 1.To be choosy – to be picky; to not like many things 2. To have a sec – to have some time 3. A blockbuster – a popular movie that made a lot of money 4. A winner – a good choice 5. To check out – to watch; to look at

6. To start from scratch – to start at the very beginning 7. To know your stuff – to know a lot about something 8. To keep up with – to stay up to date; to know current information 9. To be into (something) - to like something; to be interested in 10. To give a ring – to call someone on the telephone Idioms

Everyday Idioms

Session 3 Recap – Accent Reduction Don't leave off the final sound! Voiceless : p, t, s, k, f, th Voiced : b, d, z, g, v, th Sound Pairs: p – b, k – g T – d, f – v S – z, th – th

Accent Reduction Don't leave off the final sound! Word Pairs: Bead - beatnab - nap Heed - heat tab - tap Bid - bit bathe - bath Robe - rope breathe - breath Bag - backhave - half Tag - tack save - safe Pig - pick live - life

Accent Reduction Past tense “ED” Endings: cried, walked, chated How to add the “t”, “d”, and “ed” sound? Rule: If a word ends in “t”, or “d”, then you say the full “ed”. “ED” as full “ed”. For example: “waded”, “added”, “needed”

Accent Reduction Past tense “ED” as “D”. For example: “cried”, “grabbed”, “moved”, “viewed” Voiceless: p, t, k, f, th “ED” as “T”. For example: “walked”, “passed”, “kissed”, “laughed”

American Slang Expression Hey there! = used as a greeting in informal English Hold on a sec = used to ask someone to wait / Can you hold on a second? / Could (would) you please hold? / One moment, please.

American Slang Pronunciation How ya doin? “you” sometimes changes to “ya” Verbs ending in “-ing”often lose the final “g” She’s commin’ now, okay? Again, the final “g” is dropped from the “-ing”

Session 3 Recap - American Slang Grammar As seen before, words are left out when the context is clear to all speakers: “Coming.”= I’m coming

American Slang Expression Be up for (something) = be interested or in the mood for something Take in (something) = go see a move, play, etc. Say…? = used to make a specific suggestion (such as the time of an event or the type of something) For example: Let’s meet tonight. Say 7 o’clock?

American Slang Pronunciation I dunno. = “don’t know”often change to “dunno” I’m kinda tired. = “kind of” often changs to “kinda” Grammar You up for a movie tonight? Auxiliary verbs (“helping verbs”) are sometimes dropped. Full question here: Are you up for a movie tonight?

American Slang Grammar Say 6 o’clock? Again, words are ommitted. The full question is: Let’s say 6 o’clock. – OR – Shall we say 6 o’clock? (“Shall” would make the question very polite and more formal.)

The Objectives 1.To enhance the students’ proficiency in spoken English and listening skills at intermediate level 2.To enable students to practice their spoken English with the native speaker of English 3.To learn more English idioms and speak English like an American

What you have learned 1.Authentic materials from the courseware 2.Introduction to (IPA) International Phonetic Alphabet 3.American English idioms 4.Listening, speaking, and reading skills

Funny Little Video Clips Perfect English The Bears

Learn English through songs John Lennon – Imagine Elton John - Can you feel the love tonight?

Q & A