Intensive English Listening David's Phone sentence Six

January 20, 2026 Episode 473

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Here's today's sentence.

Tell me what you hear.

His heart beats fast as he raises his hand to knock.

If you heard is art and I and.

You heard it right What's going on? The word his appears twice and each time the h is dropped.

His art his heart his hand his hand.

Let's say it 3 times, slowly and then faster.

His heart beats fast as he raises his hand to knock.

Rhythm English has a heartbeat.

Let's hear the heartbeat in this sentence.

His heart beats fast as he raises his hand to knock.

Heart Fast raises hand knock.

Those are the big words in this sentence, and if you link them together, you should be able to get some idea.

Of the meaning of this sentence.

Then we need to fill it in with all the weakly stressed words.

Those fill out the meaning and give us the relationships.

Reductions Well, the, the main reductions we're looking at here are the dropped h, his becoming is.

The first word in the sentence is his, his heart.

Now, as a matter of fact, as a Canadian, I would probably say his heart, but some native speakers will say his art.

And that's not strange.

Either way, his heart or is art, both are possible, but that's because it's at the beginning.

When we go to the middle of the sentence, his hand almost always becomes his hand.

And last week we talked about he.

Last week's sentence started with he and I told you that sometimes the h is dropped, sometimes not.

Here he happens in the middle of the sentence, and he almost always becomes e.

As he raises, as he raises his hand.

Liaisons.

There are liaisons where the words connect to each other all over the place.

His heart is art.

Is art.

In fact, sometimes the h on the heart is not pronounced as well.

His heart beats, art beats, artbeats.

The final t in heart is a stop t.

We don't say heart.

He beats, heart beats.

And then beats.

As he.

As he, as he, there's another liaison as he raises, as he raises.

As he raises his, as he raises his, as he raises his hand, as he raises his hand.

There's all sorts of connecting words.

Consonant clusters.

The consonant clusters are largely inside the words fast has the s and the tfasu no fast hand hand nn.

And and D and and.

And Let's see Beats, that's the other one.

It's, it's again, the T and yes, beats, beats.

So we get all these little consonant clusters.

Now it's your turn.

You get to shadow me.

Remember your voice on top of my voice.

3 times His heart beats fast as he raises his hand to knock.

His heart beats fast as he raises his hand to knock.

Good.

3 times shadowing is a good start, but you need more practice.

I recommend you go to the site.

You'll find the link below.

And you can practice shadowing 20 times in a row.

Ideally, you should do it 2 or 3 days, because then you get to master it.

You get that muscle memory going, and you become excellent at shadowing that sentence.

Next week she opens the door.