EFL / ESL Teaching Tip: Teaching Reductions

Описание: This is James, the Head of Teacher Training, giving some useful tips for teaching reductions.

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Hi, I'm James and I'm the Head of Teacher Training at Rennert International
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And today I'd like to talk to you about reductions and teaching reductions
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Um and reductions are where
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words are kind of smushed together so there's a consonant sound that's missing
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or radically changed or there's like this extreme
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Linking so that things sound completely different so for example if I say
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Want to I would say wanna or got to is gotta
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and something that can be really helpful is to teach the students patterns
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So that they can kind of anticipate reductions even if they're not using them
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reductions are really difficult for students to hear and to
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know what the actual original words are, so there are some patterns that you can
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teach a student
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one for example is words that end in "T" or T + you
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Becomes " cha" like
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want you is wancha or can't you in cancha or
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didn't you is didncha
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Um words that end in T + your become chur like I want your
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is I wanchur or canchur
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Um, words that end in d + you become
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ja like wouldja, couldja, um words that end in
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d + your become jur like
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Um wouldjur, shouldjur, couldjur
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now um with modals like should could would
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Must, may, might plus have plus a past participle
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become end in na not like I mean sorry, end in da
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like shoulda, coulda, woulda
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Musda, maya, mighda
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Um, words the modals again like should, could, would plus
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not plus have plus the past participle end in a
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"na" sound like shouldnna couldnna, wouldnna um, and then there's
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also WH plus do or did
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plus you becomes "ja" sound
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um so for example what did you
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do is whadja do, what do you do every day is
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also whadja do um why did you
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go there is whydju go there why do you go there every day is
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why'dju go there, um so by teaching these different patterns and slight
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variations like ja might be
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dja or dya um like whydya or wouldja
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Um, by teaching these patterns and slight variations you can
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help students anticipate
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how they can hear reductions with similar
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Words that fall into the patters, but maybe not the exact word
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that they originally encountered. So I hope that you find this helpful
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and I have another um video on
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Um teaching reductions as well so hopefully together you'll find them useful teaching tools
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in your class