In today's class we:
- Did exercises from chapter 6 (6.2 and 6.3)
- Discussed the video exercise from last class based on pronunciation and class
- Introduced 3 new vowel sounds of the day /aI/ eye AND /eə/ fair AND /aː/ car
- Introduced Minimal Pairs- "A minimal pair is a pair of words with only 1 phonetic difference e.g. blessed and blast"
- Looked at the Mancunian accent
- Did a video exercise based on an episode of 'The Ricky Gervais Show'. The focus was analysing the accent of Karl (a Mancunian speaker)
- Looked at unstressed vowels /ə/ banana and /I/ orange
- Did quiz 1 (results are now online)