Language training
Present perfect simple & present perfect continuous.
Strategies for coping with fast connected speech.
What we learnt from today's experiment
- Listening occurs in 3 stages - before (predict), during (keep listening even if you don't understand everything) and after (fill in what you didn't catch)
- Differences between Italian (syllable timed) and English (stress timed) intonation make it difficult to hear every word in English and trying to do so is often tiring and frustrating.
- Listen for key words and you will generally understand the overall idea.
- The words you don't hear are usually grammar words (e.g. articles, pronouns, prepositions and auxiliary verbs) because they are not stressed.
- When learning a new tense think about how it will sound in real life - consider where the stress falls, strong vowels becoming weak and elision (sounds/words running together)
Homework
1) Look at the sentences from today and practise saying them using stressed time pronunciation.
2) Why has the speaker used the present perfect simple or present perfect continuous in each case?
3) Listening - song of the week Unfinished Sympathy http://seansstudypage.blogspot.it/2016/02/song-of-week-all-groups-unfinished.html
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