In today's class we:
- Tried a few early morning tongue twisters e.g. "Peter Piper Picked a Pack of Pickled Peppers"
- Went through the answers to Quiz 1
- Did a translation exercise (see below)
- Discussed the video exercise from the last class (based on the Fawlty Towers episode 'Communication Problems')
- Re-capped vowel sounds from the previous 2 classes
- Introduced 2 new UNSTRESSED vowel sounds /ə/ banana and /I/ orange
- Did exercise 7.2
- Looked at the Scouse or 'Liverpudlian' accent and its features. Here are 2 famous Scousers;
-John Lennon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAOkNc-7pVU
- Looked at Word Stress
- Did exercises 22.1-22.3
- Discussed possible presentation topics
- Introduced 3 new vowel sounds of the day /aI/ eye AND /eə/ fair AND /aː/ car
- Did exercise 14.2-14.4
- Introduced Minimal Pairs- "A minimal pair is a pair of words with only 1 phonetic difference e.g. blessed and blast"
- Did a video exercise based on another episode of Fawlty Towers