Intensive English Listening David's Phone sentence Four

Now let's listen to today's sentence.

Tell me what you hear.

Now he has no choice.

His boss needs to reach him.

If you heard now he has no choice.

His boss needs to reach him.

You heard right.

The H's 4 H's simply vanished.

Let's listen to the sentence 3 times, slower, then faster.

Now he has no choice.

His boss needs to reach him.

Now he has no choice.

His boss needs to reach him.

Now he has no choice.

His boss needs to reach him.

English has a heartbeat.

Listen to the beat in this sentence.

Now he has no choice.

His boss needs to reach him.

Now he has no choice.

His boss needs to reach him.

Now Choice, boss, reach.

You could say a lot of those words got really small and kind of disappeared.

He has no his needs to.

They get squeezed and shrunk, and that's where the H's disappear.

Four h's vanish in this section.

Let's hunt them down.

Now he has first is he becoming he.

Then right after that, we have a has becoming.

As, so it's right back to back, Eaz.

Then His boss becomes is is boss.

His changes to is, and then we have him finally at the very end.

Getting shortened down tom.

Now he has no choice.

His boss needs to reach him.

Now let's take a look at liaisons, the connected words.

First of all, there is he.

And that becomes now he now he now he and right after that has, he has, he has, he has now he has.

So that's two liaisons right side by side.

And a 3rd really significant.

Connecting where it is him joining right up with reach, reach him reach him reach him, reach him.

No pauses, no gaps.

The words just flow together now.

The consonant clusters where there's several consonants in a row with no vowels between them.

And the big one here is with needs 2.

We already have need z and then there's a t need not a need does needs needs and then the 2 gets tacked right on there needs to needs to 2 needs to his boss needs to reach him now it's your turn.

Let's do shadowing.

Remember your voice on top of my voice.

3 times.

Now he has no choice.

His boss needs to reach him.

Now he has no choice.

His boss needs to reach him.

Now he has no choice.

His boss needs to reach him.

That's good.

3 times here, but that's really not enough.

Go do it on the site 20 times for total mastery.

Next week's sentence.

He walks to her door.