Intensive English Listening Sarah's Morning sentence Nine

Hi, welcome to English Listening World intensive Listening podcast.

I'm Les Paris and I've been teaching English for over 20 years now.

So I hope I can give you some help.

Let's get right into it with sentence 9 from the story, Sarah's Morning.

The sentence goes like this.

She adds milk and sugar carefully.

She adds milk and sugar carefully.

She adds milk and sugar carefully.

Once again, we get into the regular rhythm.

She adds milk and sugar carefully.

She adds milk and sugar carefully.

She adds milk and sugar carefully.

OK, so we have 3 strong beats and several weak beats.

Let's see the strong ones.

Odds.

OK.

#2, sugar.

Number 3, carefully.

So we're starting to get an idea of what this whole story is about or this sentence about.

We know that we have add sugar and carefully.

OK, let's see.

Let's go into the reductions.

Hmm, no, I can't find any reductions in this sentence.

Then we have a liaison, the word milk, which is a weakly stressed word, and the word and, oh, there was a reduction.

I'm sorry, the word and and as it often becomes.

Now the liaison, milk and milk and milken.

And they're both weakly stressed, so they go quite quickly.

And then we have consonant clusters.

Adil.

Adds milk, add milk, adds milk, adds milk, milk, it's milk, adds milk, adds milk, OK? Adds milk and sugar.

And now we've covered the rhythm, the reductions, the liaison, the consonant.

It's time to get into shadowing.

So I'm going to say this sentence 3 times.

Please shadow along with me by saying the same words as me at the same time as me.

Let's go.

She adds milk and sugar carefully.

She adds milk and sugar carefully.

She adds milk and sugar, carefully.

Now, 3 times isn't anywhere near enough practice to get the intensive listening practice that we need.

As always, I recommend 2 times.

You'll find a link in the description below where you can go to the English Listening world site, and you can press the 20 times shadowing and shadow it 20 times.

It's really fast, and if you do it with great concentration, your skill just gets higher and higher.

Do that 2 times a day.

I'm out of time now.

I want to thank you for listening and good luck with your listening homework.