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Review and practise

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How to pronounce words ending in ED in English

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You can also practise your grammar (modal verbs) online

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Students >English File Student's Site >Intermediate third edition >Grammar >File 4

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Have fun and practise stress in words

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Students >English File Student's Site >Intermediate third edition >Pronunciation >Stress Monsters

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Review modal verbs (can, could, must, have to...). You can print the page you are interested in and hand it to me next week

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Some rules you may want to have a look at...

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Some phrasal verbs used when telephoning

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About mobile phones

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Some PINTEREST pins of my own

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Descubre y guarda recetas, inspiración para tu hogar, recomendaciones de estilo y otras ideas que intentar.

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Homework for Thursday (2nd February). Read and do the activity at the bottom of the page

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Schwa

Schwa is the name for the most common sound in English. It is a weak, unstressed sound and it occurs in many words. It is often the sound in grammar words such as articles and prepositions.

Getting the schwa sound correct is a good way of making your pronunciation more accurate and natural.

The phonemic symbol for this sound is .

Listen to the sound schwa:

In unstressed syllables
Any vowel letter can be pronounced as schwa and the pronunciation of a vowel letter can change depending on whether the syllable in which it occurs is stressed or not.

Listen to these two words:

In the word 'man' the letter 'a' has its full sound - represented by the symbol /æ/.

In 'postman' the syllable 'man' is not stressed and the letter 'a' is pronounced as schwa, represented by the symbol .

Not just a letter
The sound schwa does not only represent a single letter. In some words it is the sound of several letters or even a whole syllable.

This is often, but not only, seen in words which have a syllable made up of a vowel letter followed by the letter 'r'. Remember the schwa sound is only used if the syllable which it is in is not stressed.

Listen to these examples, the schwa sounds are marked in red:

This present is for my brother. It's a book about a boy wizard.

To survive the cold weather you have to make thorough preparations.

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Exercises:
In these activities you have to identify where in a word or phrase the schwa sound appears.

Schwa exercises (32k)
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BBC Learning English | Pronunciation Tips

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Schwa Schwa is the name for the most common sound in English. It is a weak, unstressed sound and it occurs in many words. It is often the sound in grammar words such as articles and prepositions. Getting the schwa sound correct is a good way of making your pronunciation more accurate and natural.

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PRESENT PERFECT, PAST SIMPLE AND PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS- You can download, print, do the exercises and give them to me for correction

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Grammar U2 present perfect past simple ppcontinuous Intermediate 1

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DEPENDENT PREPOSITIONS- You can download, print, do the second exercise and give it to me for correction

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