Tham khảo tài liệu 'new headway intermediate the third edition student's book_3', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Point out that it is this use of word linking that often causes comprehension problems when students are exposed to natural spoken English. An amusing example of possible misunderstanding is the sentence You have to get a potato clock tomorrow Write this on the board and ask students if they can work out what the native speaker really said You have to get up at eight 0 clock tomorrow 2 Read through the examples and discuss the rules as a class. If you prefer to work from the board copy the phrases onto the board and elicit the intrusive sounds from the students. T Play the recording so that the students can hear the intrusive sounds. Answers We add w when a rounded vowel sound . u at the end of a word is linked to the following word. We add j when a spread vowel sound . Í at the end of a word is linked to the following word. We can also add r between two vowels usually schwa sounds. The use of the intrusive r has traditionally been considered bad pronunciation although it is in fact very common in standard English. 3 Ask students to look at the examples. Play the recording. Point out that there is a lot of linking and intrusion because letters are often just a vowel sound or a vowel consonant or consonant vowel sound so when said at speed they need to be linked by other consonant sounds. Ask students in pairs to spell out their names to each other. What features of linking and intrusion do they notice T Read the introduction as a class then play the recording. Students write down the names they hear. Let them check in pairs before writing the names up on the board in feedback. Answers and tapescript Marc De Week Pilar Asajani Ginny Dummet 1 A Could I have your first name please B It s Marc. That s M - A - R and then c for Charlie not K for Kilo. A And the surname B De Week. A Could you spell that for me B Yes. It s two words. First D -. A Is that T for Tango B No D for Delta and E for Echo. And then a separate word WECK. A Is that with a V .
