WEEK 7

Hi, this is my practise of intonation, speed, pauses etc. So main problem for me was to keep same speed as in original recording. But after few tries I think I solved this problem and that the speed is quite same as in original. Intonation wasn´t big deal for me neither the pauses, I could catch my breat during them.

As my individual task I´ve prepared five sentences with British and American pronunciation because I´ve enjoyed this exercise a lot last time.

Global warming

Hello, here is the recording of my presentation. Enjoy :)

WEEK 6

Hello, this is my recording of British and American pronunciation. Thanks to this exercise I found out that I mix these two together when I speak. I think that I will focus on British pronunciation because I think American pronunciation is quite "exaggerated". I think this was the funniest exersice of all and I really enjoyed it. You can find list of my sentences below. Brother set car on fire on Tuesday morning.
He bought 30 bottles of tomato juice.
Bartender has a nice beard.
NY is a big city.
Hunter chased bird and butterfly.

As my individual task I looked up few words which are different in British and American English. Again, I found out that I am unconsciously using for example American words.              British / American

Put on a jumper / sweater.
He rides a lorry / truck.
The starte was delicious / The Appetizer was delicious.
He is in the garden / yard.
He is on holiday / vacation.

WEEK 6

Hello, this is my recording of strong and weak words. Now I know that strong and weak form depends on meaning of sentence. I was not sure about sentence "His first name´s Jack, but I don´t know his second name." I put strong form on second "his" because I think that is important (he don´t know his second name) so I hope it is correct. I also tried to use my connected speech from previous task. After that task it was more natural and I didn´t have to focus on it so much. Also I am sorry for bad quality of recording, I will fix it till the next task.

 As my individual task I have prepared advice on how to make quick honey pie. I was always saying "I will give you an advice" so thanks to this task I wrote to my mind that word advice is uncountable so I must say "some advice" instead of "an advice".

Connected speech

Hello, this is my recording of practising connected speech.

I hope that after practising connected speach I would be able to understand native speakers or lyrics of my favourite songs. Now I know that the strange word I hear in lyrics can be consisted of two words or more and when I focus on pronunciation I can guess the word. I didn´t have many problems with this exercise, maybe little with the sentence "dinner‘s_in the kitchen" because I still pronounced "s" at the end instead of "z".
As my individual task I listened to my favourite song HAPPY by Pharrell Williams and chose some examples from the text.

what I’m about to say
talking this and that
give me
what you want to do
without a roof