In today's class we:

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
  • Single vowel exclamations (see below)
  • 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;
        -Jamie Carragher (with subtitles) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDaTTVR2JXY 
        -John Lennon  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAOkNc-7pVU 
  • Did an unstressed vowel spotting exercise from people's names
    • Looked at consonant sounds Looked at 3 new consonant sounds    /ð/ the (voiced)           AND            /θ/ thought (unvoiced)            AND                    /ŋ/ sing
  • Did exercise 17.1-17.4     
  • 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 an episode of The Wire focusing on American v British