[V5] P3: Grammar - Word Order + speaking - sounds

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 5

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Today's lesson

• Grammar: Word order
  

• Speaking: Mispronounced words

Why?

• For writing an essay (and simply writing and uttering correct sentences in English)
• To practise your speaking (pronunciation)

Part 1

Word order

Or: how to write a fluent English sentence

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Lisa

a book

is reading

about the universe

In general, the word order in English

SVO

Subject - Verb - Object (+ extra info)

So:

Lisa - is reading - a book + about the universe

Beware

It is NOT wise to use Dutch as an example for English word order

S(ubject)V(erb)O(bject)

Lisa leest een boek

Lisa is reading a book

Hoewel Lisa een boek aan het lezen is ......

Even though Lisa is reading a book ......

Time & place are different

Ben walks to work every morning

Ben loopt iedere dag naar werk.

Every morning, Ben walks to work

Part 2

Most commonly mispronounced sounds & words

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Which sounds do you think are most difficult to Dutch learners?

Part 2A

The consonants [=medeklinkers]

'th' (/ϴ/ /ð/) 

Practice pronouncing ‘th’. Your tongue should touch your teeth and you should feel air flow between the tongue and teeth! 

Word list to practice: 

this, that, there, then, father, brother, feather, another, gather, thin, thief, thing, Thursday, thumb, athlete, panther, birthday, tooth, math, mouth, both. 

'r' (/r/)

This depends on the accent you prefer.

In British English you only pronounce ‘r’ before a vowel 

eg. read, right, wrong, umbrella, brush. 

Before a consonant, you don’t pronounce the ‘r’ 

eg. heard, bored, hair.

In American English (or even Scottish English) you definitely pronounce the /r/

Final devoicing

In English you pronounce the actual consonant at the end of a word. 

In Dutch we turn a final ‘d’ into ‘t’, as in ‘bed’. 

The English don’t do that and therefore these words don’t sound the same: 

bed  bet

bad  bat

mad  mat

dog  dock

Part 2B

The vowels [=klinkers]

e (/e/ vs /æ/)

Practice with the following sets of words, their pronunciation is NOT the same. 

bed  bad

head  had

men  man

end  and

beg  bag

pen  pan

said  sad

gem  jam

u

Practice with the following sets of words, the vowel is quite different from its Dutch counterpart

but

Dutch

country

And now

Work on the exercises in your grammar booklet

Unit 109: Exercise 1 & 3

Unit 110: Exercise 1, 2 & 3

Any questions/comments?