Connected speech in IELTS Listening
A LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS
Changed sounds in IELTS Listening answers at natural speed
Lesson Plan Content:
Connected speech in IELTS Listening
Correct the spelling mistakes on the next page.
Try to find what the spelling mistakes have in common and use that to check that you have corrected the right parts. There are several different but connected groups of mistakes.
Check your answers with the suggested answers, then use those answers to check if you guessed the right thing in common between the mistakes.
Why are the wrong parts spelled that way?
Find examples of each of these things and work out why they happen/ what those examples have in common:
- extra sounds added
- sounds changed
- the last sound of the first word moved
- sounds lost
If you haven’t yet, make sure you have found at least one of these more specific changes:
- /w/ added
- /j/ (for “yoyo”) added
- /r/ added
- final /n/
- syllables lost
In groups, practise saying the words they are written with the spelling mistakes, correcting each other if the pronunciation is too close to the version with correct spelling.
Test each other on the words:
- Choose one of the lines, say it either the way it is spelt or the way it is pronounced, and see if your partner can hear which way you are saying it
- Say one of the lines as it is pronounced naturally and see if your partner can say it back slowly and carefully
- Choose one of the lines, say it the way it is correctly spelt (without connecting the words) and see if your partner can pronounce it back with the usual fast pronunciation (connecting the words)
- Say one of the words with the normal fast pronunciation (connecting the words) and see if your partner can spell it
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Spelling mistakes in IELTS Listening gapfill tasks to correct
- 33 Bangk Road
- academic refrences
- ancien tart
- arranged alphabeticly
- blue wocean
- core soutline
- day yoff
- evry three days
- fire rengine
- fix tincome
- fren chembassy
- genral store
- gif shop
- granmother
- hal fa nour
- in fie vours
- intrest rates
- laing graph
- late evning
- libral economists
- libry card
- lie finsurance
- media raccess
- modern histry
- nursry school
- onlime payment
- opra house
- overdue wupdate
- pal moil
- raim boots
- reasnable prices
- sales confrence
- satisfactry result
- secondry school
- soun defects
- soy lerosion
- stay jactor
- stray tafter
- thousanth customer
- tidy yup
- two fiths
- violing case
- wes tafrica
- while danimals
- yea ron year
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Normal/ fast pronunciation |
Spelling/ Slow and careful pronunciation |
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33 Bangk Road academic refrences ancien tart arranged alphabeticly blue wocean core soutline day yoff evry three days fire rengine fix tincome fren chembassy genral store gif shop granmother hal fa nour in fie vours intrest rates laing graph late evning libral economists libry card lie finsurance media raccess modern histry nursry school onlime payment opra house overdue wupdate pal moil raim boots reasnable prices sales confrence satisfactry result secondry school soun defects soy lerosion stay jactor stray tafter thousanth customer tidy yup two fiths violing case wes tafrica while danimals yea ron year |
33 Bank Road academic references ancient art arranged alphabetically blue ocean course outline day off every three days fire engine fixed income French embassy general store gift shop grandmother half an hour in five hours interest rates line graph late evening liberal economists library card life insurance media access modern history nursery school online payment opera house overdue update palm oil rain boots reasonable prices sales conference satisfactory result secondary school sound effects soil erosion stage actor straight after thousandth customer tidy up two fifths violin case West Africa wild animals yea ron year |
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