Home > Lesson 8: Multiple Actions > Unit 8.6 Blends without a FCS – with ‘s’
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- Practice following and saying out loud the transition on slides 7-15. Say each stage out loud. Make sure you understand what is happening and why. Listen again to the recording if you have any doubts.
- Practice saying the phrases on slide 16 out loud, going from bad connection to good. Notice the actions and practice the interim stages. When does z change to s – and why? When do we delete t – and why? Notice how often we perform each action: moving forward (58%), deleting (28%), changing (14%), adding (0%). Add the phrases to your own sentences; practice them out loud. Record them, slow them down, and listen to your sound connections – then get a partner or teacher to check your pronunciation.
- Focus on the summary of actions on slide 16. Make sure you know what is happening and why. Learn the facts of connected speech so well that you remember them and are able to implement them when you are speaking.
- Look at slide 16. Practice ‘frontloading’ consonant sounds onto the beginning of syllables, as in the phrases: ‘de skswere’ (4 consonants sounds) and ‘cri spswere’ (4 consonant sounds). How easy do you find this? Is there anything equivalent in your L1? Write five of your own phrases which ‘frontload’ three or more consonant sounds onto the following syllable. Remember that however hard – or just plain eccentric – this may seem to you, it is easier for us to make a VC or friendly connection and frontload multiple consonant sounds, than to pronounce a CV or CC connection.