Linking

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Unit 8

• Linking

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Objectives

• Students will be able to
• Define - in your own words a definition for
  linking in a sentence.
• Compare based on the understanding of the basic
  concept, compare different types of linking in
  connected speech
• Practice the material focuses on linking.

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In-class Activity 1

• Dictation
• think of it
• amazed at
• shame and stress

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What is linking?

• arrange words into groups and join together the
  stressed and unstressed words within the group
• move smoothly from one word to the next without
  making any sudden stops
• This phenomena of joining words together is
  called linking.

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How to link words in English speech?

• blending or joining the last sound of a word with
  the initial sound of the following word.
• post office (To blend or join the final
  consonant of one word with the initial vowel of
  the following word)
• the idea of (To link the final vowels to a
  following vowel by adding the /r/ sound )
• my arm (To make smooth transitions when the
  preceding word ends with a vowel and the
  following word begins also with a vowel sound by
  adding a slight /j/ or /w/)

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In-class Activity 2

• When I think of it now,
• I am amazed at how much courage it must have
  taken for a grown man to subject himself to such
  shame and stress.
• And at how he did itwithout
• bitterness or complaint.

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In-class Activity 3

• Performance
• One two three four five
• Once I caught a fish alive
• Six seven eight nine ten
• Then I let it go again.
• Why did you let it go?
• Because it bit my finger so
• Which finger did it bite?
• The little finger on the right

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In-class activity 4

• Give us whatever you have prepared for the class
  before hand.
• My Master Piece

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Summary
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• THE END
• Thank you