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In this podcast for English learners, Melanie uses core vocabulary to tell you a story about something that happened in her daily life in Canada. Each episode also includes a pronunciation lesson that explains something she said in the story. She speaks naturally and with a standard American accent. http://www.EnglishTeacherMelanie.com | Twitter: TeacherMelanie, Facebook: EnglishTeacherMelanie, YouTube: TeacherMelanie
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In this podcast for English learners, Melanie uses core vocabulary to tell you a story about something that happened in her daily life in Canada. Each episode also includes a pronunciation lesson that explains something she said in the story. She speaks naturally and with a standard American accent. http://www.EnglishTeacherMelanie.com | Twitter: TeacherMelanie, Facebook: EnglishTeacherMelanie, YouTube: TeacherMelanie
English Listening: Vertigo | Episode 17 | English Teacher Melanie [smart_track_player url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/englishteachermelanie/Lesson_017_-_At_the_Beginning_of_June.mp3″ title=”17 VERTIGO” artist=”ENGLISH TEACHER MELANIE” social=”true” social_twitter=”true” social_facebook=”true” social_gplus=”true” social_pinterest=”true” social_email=”true” ] Listen to a story about an illness I had in the summer of 2013! You’ll also learn how to hear and make the reduced form of the conjunction “or.” Welcome to the English Teacher Melanie Podcast, a podcast for intermediate to advanced English learners who want to improve their English listening and speaking skills! Each episode includes a story and a pronunciation tip. In the story, I use core vocabulary, the most common words in English, to tell a real world story. The pronunciation tip will help you understand natural spoken English. You’ll hear the story twice. The first time, the story is a little slower than normal. It sounds funny because I used editing software to change the speed of the story and make it slower. After the pronunciation tip, you’ll hear the story again, but at a regular speed. THE STORY (This story was originally published in 2013.) At the beginning of June, I experienced a severe episode of vertigo. One morning, out of the blue, I was startled awake. When I opened my eyes, the room was spinning. It was scary because I didn’t know what was going on. I couldn’t walk, stand, or even sit up. All I could do was lie in bed and try to keep my head straight. I didn’t go to the doctor right away because this had happened to me before. I thought the vertigo would go away on its own in a day or two. However, this episode was much worse than any before. I spent a week in bed waiting for the vertigo to go away. I slowly got better, and I even taught a class, but then I had a relapse exactly one week after the first episode of vertigo. I couldn’t get an appointment with my family doctor, so I went to a walk-in clinic. I was diagnosed with a problem in my inner ear that affected my balance. The doctor said that there was nothing she could do. I just had to wait for it to go away. Except that it didn’t go away. I was still very unsteady on my feet 2 weeks later. Three weeks after the first episode, I went to see my family doctor. She said it could also be an inner ear infection caused by a virus. She gave me some strong pills that helped me function better, but the pills made me very tired, and I had a hard time concentrating on things. I still feel a little dizzy sometimes when I move my head. I can’t lie down with my head flat on a pillow. I sleep with my head propped up with pillows. I can work now and I have started driving on my own, but I still sit down in the shower and I still find it difficult to concentrate for very long. I’ve had to wait three months for an appointment with an Ear, Nose & Throat specialist. My appointment is this week. I really hope he can help me. [the_ad id=”6010″] PRONUNCIATION TIP Listen carefully to some sentences from the story: I couldn’t walk, stand, or even sit up. I thought the vertigo would go away on its own in a day or two. Did you hear the word or in those sentences? The conjunction or is a function word. It’s a grammar word. It’s not an important word, but it needs to be in the sentence so that the sentence is grammatically correct. Within a sentence, function words are unstressed, and they are often reduced. The conjunction or is unstressed and reduced in a sentence. In natural spoken English, it’s pronounced /ɚ/, like the er sound at the end of a word. Or reduced to /ɚ/ becomes an extra syllable at the end of the preceding word. Listen again: I didn’t say “I couldn’t walk, stand, OR even sit up.” I said “I couldn’t walk, stand, /ɚ/ even sit up.” I didn’t say “I thought the vertigo would go away on its own in a day OR two. I said “a day /ɚ/ two.” Can you hear the difference? Hear are some more common expressions with or sooner or later right or wrong this one or that one today or tomorrow…
English Listening: Shopping for a New Dress | Episode 15 | English Teacher Melanie [smart_track_player url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/englishteachermelanie/Lesson_015_Shopping_for_a_New_Dress.mp3″ title=”15 SHOPPING FOR A NEW DRESS” artist=”ENGLISH TEACHER MELANIE” social=”true” social_twitter=”true” social_facebook=”true” social_gplus=”true” social_pinterest=”true” social_email=”true” ] Listen to a story about all the problems I had trying to buy a dress to wear to my friends’ wedding! You’ll also learn how to to pronounce “hadn’t,” “didn’t,” and “couldn’t.” Welcome to the English Teacher Melanie Podcast, a podcast for intermediate to advanced English learners who want to improve their English listening and speaking skills! Each episode includes a story and a pronunciation tip. In the story, I use core vocabulary, the most common words in English, to tell a real world story. The pronunciation tip will help you understand natural spoken English. You’ll hear the story twice. The first time, the story is a little slower than normal. It sounds funny because I used editing software to change the speed of the story and make it slower. After the pronunciation tip, you’ll hear the story again, but at a regular speed. THE STORY Earlier this year I was invited to a wedding in New Zealand! Two of my close friends were getting married! I’d never been to New Zealand and I hadn’t been to a wedding in a long time, so this was a great excuse to buy a new dress! I didn’t want to waste time dress shopping in New Zealand. I wanted to spend as much time as possible sightseeing, doing things with friends and resting before the wedding. I wanted to buy a dress before I left Canada. Since there are almost 200 stores in the nearby mall, I thought for sure I could find a nice dress there! Listen: Garage Sales | Episode 18 I spent an entire afternoon at the mall trying on dress after dress, but I came away very disappointed. I couldn’t find anything that fit my figure. Every dress I tried on had no shape to it. The chest, waist, and hips were all the same size and the dress just hung like a sack on my body. I know I’m not skinny, but I’m not fat, either. I’m somewhere in the middle, like most women. I couldn’t find any dresses made for a normal-size woman with curves. This was very disappointing. On my way to New Zealand, I spent a week in Hawaii. I knew I would have better luck dress shopping there. There are a lot of places to shop in Hawaii since it’s a popular tourist destination! I was not let down! My hotel was near the largest mall in Hawaii. The very first store I went into had amazing dresses that fit me perfectly. The sales girl was so persuasive, I walked out of the store with TWO new dresses! I decided to wear one dress to the bachelorette party and the other dress to the wedding. PRONUNCIATION TIP Listen to some sentences from the story: “I hadn’t been to a wedding in a long time.” “I didn’t want to waste time dress shopping in New Zealand.” “I couldn’t find anything that fit my figure.” Did you hear the negative contractions hadn’t, didn’t, or couldn’t in those sentences? In natural, fast speech, these negative contractions are not fully pronounced. Contractions are a basic part of natural spoken English. Instead of saying had and not separately, they are joined together, and some letters are left out of the final contraction, hadn’t. Something interesting happens with these specific negative contractions. Had, did, and could all end with a d consonant sound. When they are contracted with not, not is reduced to the letters n and t. The d, n, and t consonant sounds all have the same tongue position, so in natural spoken English, they are not fully pronounced. To begin the d consonant sound, the tongue goes up, and the front of tongue is pressed up against the top of the mouth. This is also the tongue position for the n consonant sound. This is also the starting position for the t consonant sound. For example, to say the word hadn’t, move your tongue up to start the d sound, but don’t finish it. Keep your tongue pressed up against the top of your mouth: had. Next, make the n consonant sound had n. The n consonant sound comes through your nose. The n sound is very short. The t consonant sound at the end of the word is a held t. It stops the n sound, and it’s not fully pronounced. Don’t drop your tongue at the end of the word: had nt Listen again to the negative contractions: hadn’t didn’t couldn’t This also occurs with other negative contractions I didn’t use in the story: wouldn’t shouldn’t It may take a while before you can hear the difference between the modal verb, and the negative contraction. Listen carefully: had / hadn’t did / didn’t could / couldn’t would / wouldn’t should / shouldn’t LISTEN TO MORE LESSONS HERE!…
[smart_track_player url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/englishteachermelanie/The_Missing_Photo__Episode_24_-_English_Teacher_Melanie.mp3″ title=”24 The Missing Photo” artist=”English Teacher Melanie” social=”true” social_twitter=”true” social_facebook=”true” social_gplus=”true” social_pinterest=”true” ] Listen to a story about looking for an important photo! You’ll also learn how to say “photograph,” “photography,” and “photographer,” and how to pronounce the American T sound. Welcome to the English Teacher Melanie Podcast , a podcast for intermediate to advanced English learners who want to improve their English listening and speaking skills! Each episode includes a story and a pronunciation tip. In the story, I use core vocabulary , the most common words in English, to tell a real world story. The pronunciation tip will help you understand natural spoken English. You’ll hear the story twice. The first time, the story is a little slower than normal. It sounds funny because I used editing software to change the speed of the story and make it slower. After the pronunciation tip, you’ll hear the story again, but at a regular speed. THE STORY We love photos in my family. My mom has a huge collection of family photos, starting with photos taken in the 1950s. The most important photos are the ones of family members who have passed away. My mom has a really nice photo of me and my brother with my maternal grandmother, who passed away in 2000. My mom kept the photo in a frame on her desk, but it had been in the frame so long that it was stuck to the glass. She wanted to put the photo in a new frame, but she couldn’t remove it from the old frame without tearing it. She needed a new copy of this photo. We left no stone unturned looking for a copy of this photo. My mom and I went through every photo album we have looking for a copy of it or a similar photo taken at the same time. We found … nothing. We asked multiple people in my family if they took the photo, including my aunt, my cousin, and my brother’s girlfriend at the time. None of them remembered this photo, and they all said they didn’t take it. I tried taking a photo of the photo and the glass together, but the quality wasn’t very good. We didn’t have a digital camera in 2000, so we know the photo was taken with a film camera. I looked through my mom’s giant box of negatives, which sounds easier than it was! The negatives are so small that it was hard to see the images. Again, I found nothing. I bought a scanner so I could start digitizing all the negatives. This is our last option. If I can’t find the photo after digitizing all the negatives, we may have to give up on ever finding this photo, unless a miracle happens and someone else discovers they have it! [the_ad id=”6010″] PRONUNCIATION TIP PART ONE: HOW TO SAY PHOTOGRAPH AND THE AMERICAN TAP T SOUND This transcript uses IPA symbols to represents sounds and teach pronunciation. Learn more about the IPA here . The first syllable in the word photograph is the stressed syllable. It’s said louder and longer than the other syllables and the vowel sound is fully pronounced: /foʊ/ The T sound is not a fully pronounced T sound. We don’t say /foʊtoʊ/, although people will understand you if you say /foʊtoʊ/. It’s not a D sound either, as many students think it is. We don’t say /’foʊdoʊ/. It’s actually a third sound. This sound has many names. The proper name is the alveolar tap or flap . It’s also called the flap T, tap T, flapped T or tapped T . There’s a bump behind your top teeth called the alveolar ridge . We’ll just call it the ridge. The tip of your tongue quickly taps, or hits, the ridge behind your top teeth. Your tongue doesn’t stop in the middle of the sound as it normally does with a fully pronounced T sound. There is also no release or puff of air after the T. It’s a quick tongue tap. Listen carefully: /’foʊt̬oʊ/ This is the T sound that occurs when: the T is at the beginning of an unstressed syllable and it’s between two vowel sounds. In the word photo, the second O is fully pronounced: /’foʊt̬oʊ/ However, the second O in photograph is reduced and it becomes the schwa sound /ə/: /’foʊt̬ə/ The final syllable -graph is an unstressed syllable, but it’s not reduced so it keeps the full vowel sound: /’foʊt̬əˌgræf/ PART TWO: HOW TO SAY PHOTOGRAPHY AND PHOTOGRAPHER Now, just to confuse you, the words photography and photographer are pronounced completely differently from photograph. In the words photography and photographer, the first syllable is unstressed and reduced, so the vowel sound is pronounced /ə/: /fə/ The second syllable is the stressed syllable. This T is not the tap T sound. It is the regular, fully pronounced T sound. The vowel sound is /ɑ/: /fə’tɑ/ Now, both photography and photographer look like they contain the word -graph, like photograph, but -graph is divided into two syllables. The third syllable is unstressed and reduced, so there is another schwa sound /ə/: /fə’tɑgrə/ Photography ends with /fi/, and photographer ends with /fɚ/. Here are all three words again. Listen and repeat after me. photograph /’foʊt̬əˌgræf/ photography /fə’tɑgrəfi/ photographer /fə’tɑgrəfɚ/ QUESTIONS What do you do with old photos? How do you organize your old photos & your digital photos? What would you have done to find the missing photo? Leave me a comment below!…
30 Years of Stuff | English listening lesson 23 – EnglishTeacherMelanie.com [smart_track_player url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/englishteachermelanie/30_Years_of_Stuff__Episode_23_-_English_Teacher_Melanie.mp3″ title=”23 30 Years of Stuff” artist=”English Teacher Melanie” social=”true” social_twitter=”true” social_facebook=”true” social_gplus=”true” social_pinterest=”true” ] Listen to a story about cleaning out all my stuff from my parents basement! You’ll also learn how to link same consonant sounds in spoken English . Welcome to the English Teacher Melanie Podcast , a podcast for intermediate to advanced English learners who want to improve their English listening and speaking skills! Each episode includes a story and a pronunciation tip. In the story, I use core vocabulary , the most common words in English, to tell a real world story. The pronunciation tip will help you understand natural spoken English. You’ll hear the story twice. The first time, the story is a little slower than normal. It sounds funny because I used editing software to change the speed of the story and make it slower. After the pronunciation tip, you’ll hear the story again, but at a regular speed. THE STORY My parents have lived in the same house for 30 years. For 30 years I’ve had a place to store my stuff. I’ve been very fortunate. All through university and coming & going from my travels overseas, my parents let me put boxes of my stuff in their basement. It’s stuff that I wanted to keep but didn’t need immediately. I had planned to sort through everything someday, but I never got around to it. Now my parents have decided to sell their house, and I have to clean out 30 years of my stuff from the basement! This is such bad timing for me, because I don’t have time right now to go through every box and decide what to keep and what to toss! The boxes are full of things like books, old clothes, souvenirs, school memorabilia, photos, scrapbooks, and toys my mom kept from my childhood. I don’t even know why I’ve kept some of that stuff. So, I’ve rented a storage locker to store all my stuff for the time being. A storage locker (or a storage unit, which is the same thing), is a temporary storage space. The space can be as small as a closet or as big as a garage. My locker is a 5×10-foot space inside a building. It has walls on three sides and a large metal roll-up door that is secured with a lock. I pay monthly to rent that space, and I’m the only person who can access that space because I have the key for the lock. The building is very secure, so I feel safe storing my stuff there. I’ve removed about two-thirds of my stuff from the basement so far. I’m running out of space in my locker, but a bigger locker is too expensive. I’ll have to start going through the boxes that are still in the basement. Whatever doesn’t fit into the storage locker, I’ll either donate it to charity, or throw it out. [the_ad id=”6010″] PRONUNCIATION TIP HOW TO LINK SAME CONSONANT SOUNDS IN SPOKEN ENGLISH This transcript uses IPA symbols to represent sounds and teach pronunciation. Learn more about the IPA here . One of the main features of natural spoken English is linking. In English, words flow together in a natural rhythm. Part of that flow includes linking words together so that there is no pause between words. Listen to part of a sentence from the story: … coming and going from my travels overseas … Listen carefully to the way I say FROM and MY: … coming and going from my travels overseas … The word FROM ends with an M sound, and the next word MY begins with an M sound. When one word ends with the same sound that the next word starts with, you only need to say that sound once. With the words FROM and MY, you only need to say the M sound once, so that there is no stop or pause between the two words. Listen carefully: … from my … / frəmaɪ/ … coming and going from my travels overseas … I connected the two words together by only saying the M sound once. Linking is a very common feature of natural spoken English. Here are some easy phrases that you can practice to get used to linking same consonant sounds. some money a bad day this Saturday a fun night QUESTIONS Do you have a lot of stuff? What do you do with stuff you don’t need right away but you want to keep? Do you store it anywhere? Leave me a comment below!…
[smart_track_player url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/englishteachermelanie/Denied_a_Credit_Card__Episode_22_-_English_Teacher_Melanie.mp3″ title=”22 DENIED A CREDIT CARD” artist=”ENGLISH TEACHER MELANIE” social=”true” social_twitter=”true” social_facebook=”true” social_gplus=”true” social_pinterest=”true” social_email=”true” ] Listen to a story about how I was denied a credit card by my bank! You’ll also learn how to pronounce words that end in the syllable -AR, like “dollar” and “regular.” Welcome to the English Teacher Melanie Podcast , a podcast for intermediate to advanced English learners who want to improve their English listening and speaking skills! Each episode includes a story and a pronunciation tip. In the story, I use core vocabulary , the most common words in English, to tell a real world story. The pronunciation tip will help you understand natural spoken English. You’ll hear the story twice. The first time, the story is a little slower than normal. It sounds funny because I used editing software to change the speed of the story and make it slower. After the pronunciation tip, you’ll hear the story again, but at a regular speed. THE STORY I applied for a US-dollar credit card at my bank last year because the expenses for my website are all in US dollars. The Canadian dollar was weakening against the US dollar and it was becoming more expensive to pay my bills with Canadian dollars. I thought it was going to be a simple process to get the card, but the bank denied my application without any explanation! Denied! I needed this card, so I had to figure out what went wrong. Listen: My First Job | Episode 31 I called the bank right away. The customer service agent said it was an automated process and he couldn’t give me a definite answer. He said my credit score probably wasn’t high enough, and he told me to request my free credit report. The report contained my credit history from the last 7 years. There were no problems in my report. I didn’t miss any payments and I paid my bills on time. I still had no idea why my credit score may have been low or why my application was denied. Listen: A Problem with my Cell Phone Bill | Episode 16 I called the company that prepared my credit report to ask if they had any insight. I had a department store credit card that I hadn’t used in 4 years. I thought that was a good thing. It showed that I could be trusted not to rack up debt. It turned out that this unused card was negatively affecting my credit score because it looked like I was wasting credit. I also had a regular Canadian-dollar credit card. This card had a balance greater than 50% of my credit limit, and that wasn’t good either. To improve my credit score, I had to do two things. I had to cancel my department store credit card, and I had to pay down part of my regular credit card balance so that it was less than 50% of my limit. I waited a few months, then applied for the credit card again. This time, the bank approved my application and I got my US-dollar credit card. Listen: I Forgot my Wallet! | Episode 14 [the_ad id=”6010″] PRONUNCIATION TIP HOW TO PRONOUNCE WORDS THAT END IN THE SYLLABLE -AR, LIKE “DOLLAR” AND “REGULAR” This transcript uses IPA symbols to represent sounds and teach pronunciation. Learn more about the IPA here . One of the biggest mistakes that English learners make with English pronunciation is that they try to pronounce the word the way it is written. You can’t do that in English. There are some pronunciation guidelines that you can follow that will help you figure out how to say a word, but the best thing to do is to hear the word first, and then imitate the sounds that you hear. Did you notice my pronunciation of the word dollar d-o-l-l-a-r? I often hear English learners say /’doʊlɑr/ which is wrong. In this word, the letter O is not pronounced O, it’s pronounced /ɑ/, so the first syallable is pronounced /dɑl/, like the word doll . The letter A is not pronounced /ɑ/. The -AR at the end of the word is a separate syllable and it’s pronounced ER /ɚ/: /’dɑlɚ/ Here are some words that rhyme with dollar: taller, caller/collar, smaller, holler, scholar It’s important to get the pronunciation right the first time you try to say a new word. If you keep pronouncing the word incorrectly over and over, it becomes a habit and it becomes harder to change & improve your pronunciation. In the story, I also used the word regular . It ends with the -AR syllable, so remember to pronounce the last syllable -ER /ɚ/. This is also true for the word grammar . QUESTIONS Do you have a credit card? How many credit cards do you have? Do you have any store credit cards? Have you ever been denied a credit card? If so, what did you do? Leave me a comment below!…
A Diet Changed My Life | English Listening Lesson 21 – EnglishTeacherMelanie.com [smart_track_player url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/englishteachermelanie/A_Diet_Changed_My_Life__Episode_21_-_English_Teacher_Melanie.mp3″ title=”21 A DIET CHANGED MY LIFE” artist=”ENGLISH TEACHER MELANIE” social=”true” social_twitter=”true” social_facebook=”true” social_gplus=”true” social_pinterest=”true” social_email=”true” ] Listen to a story about how a diet changed my life! You’ll also learn how to say the word “diet” and how to link vowel sounds in a word . Welcome to the English Teacher Melanie Podcast , a podcast for intermediate to advanced English learners who want to improve their English listening and speaking skills! Each episode includes a story and a pronunciation tip. In the story, I use core vocabulary , the most common words in English, to tell a real world story. The pronunciation tip will help you understand natural spoken English. You’ll hear the story twice. The first time, the story is a little slower than normal. It sounds funny because I used editing software to change the speed of the story and make it slower. After the pronunciation tip, you’ll hear the story again, but at a regular speed. THE STORY I’ve been sick for a long time. I was diagnosed with a chronic illness in 2009, but I’d been sick for many years before that. Over the years, I tried a lot of different things to improve my health, but nothing helped me fully recover. By the end of 2014, I was desperate. I decided to investigate if a radical change in my diet would improve my health. I heard about a medical laboratory that does a blood test that checks for food intolerances or foods that might cause problems in your body. I decided to have the test done, even though there is no agreement among doctors that this test measures anything. My results showed that I had 32 intolerances to everything under the sun: milk, wheat, soy, … you name it! I didn’t know what to do! What was I going to eat? Learn more: When is it OK to use foods and fruits ? . I made an appointment with a dietician who specializes in food intolerances. I wanted to know what she thought about the results and if she thought a new diet could help me get better. She asked me to keep a diet diary. I had to write down everything I ate, how much I ate, what time I ate at, how hungry I felt, and any symptoms I experienced afterward. When I returned to the dietician, she knew right away what my problem was: sugar, specifically natural sugars in certain foods like milk, wheat, beans, and some fruits and vegetables. These sugars are poorly absorbed in the small intestine. For some people, this causes digestive problems and other problems throughout the body. My next task was to stop eating all these foods. From the moment I started this diet, my life turned around. Most of my symptoms have disappeared. I have more energy, I sleep better, and I get more work done during the day. This is the best thing that has happened to me in years. This diet is not easy at all. I have to cook everything from scratch and eating out is difficult, but I couldn’t be happier. Learn more: Travel English Vocabulary: In a Restaurant [the_ad id=”6010″] PRONUNCIATION TIP HOW TO SAY DIET AND HOW TO LINK VOWEL SOUNDS This transcript uses IPA symbols to represent sounds and teach pronunciation. Learn more about the IPA here . The word diet may be a little difficult to say, because the vowels I and E are in different syllables. Diet is a two-syllable word. When one vowel sound comes after another vowel sound, it’s hard to say them smoothly without pausing between them. There is a way to link or connect these sounds so that they flow together smoothly. The first syllable DI /’daɪ/ is the stressed syllable and it is said louder and longer than the other syllable. The second syllable is pronounced /ət/, where the vowel becomes the schwa sound /ə/. So, we have /’daɪ/ and /ət/. To join these two syllables together, add a very short Y sound /j/ in the middle of the word, in between the two vowel sounds. It makes the word much easier to say and it sounds much more natural. Listen carefully: /’daɪjət/ Here are some more words where the vowel sounds in different syllables are linked together with a short Y sound: create serious quiet medium alien Learn more: Episode 23: How to link same consonant sounds Episode 13: How to link a vowel to a consonant QUESTIONS Do you have any food allergies? Are you on a special diet? Are there any foods that you can’t eat because they make you sick? Leave me a comment below!…
[smart_track_player url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/englishteachermelanie/A_Trip_Downtown__Episode_20_-_English_Teacher_Melanie.mp3″ title=”20 A TRIP DOWNTOWN” artist=”English Teacher Melanie” social=”true” social_twitter=”true” social_facebook=”true” social_gplus=”true” social_pinterest=”true” ] Listen to a story about my trip downtown Toronto to meet my friend! You’ll also learn how to say names of places and streets in a city. Welcome to the English Teacher Melanie Podcast , a podcast for intermediate to advanced English learners who want to improve their English listening and speaking skills! Each episode includes a story and a pronunciation tip. In the story, I use core vocabulary , the most common words in English, to tell a real world story. The pronunciation tip will help you understand natural spoken English. You’ll hear the story twice. The first time, the story is a little slower than normal. It sounds funny because I used editing software to change the speed of the story and make it slower. After the pronunciation tip, you’ll hear the story again, but at a regular speed. THE STORY People think that Canada is cold all the time, but we have beautiful weather in the summer and it’s a great time to see the country. One of my friends from Australia was traveling through Canada this summer and she stopped in Toronto for a couple days. I hadn’t seen her in a few years, so I was excited to spend time with her and show her around Toronto. As you may remember from a previous story, I live in a suburb of Toronto, about an hour north of the city. I took the bus downtown because I don’t like driving in Toronto. There are too many cars, the roads are narrow, you have to share the roads with cyclists and buses and streetcars, and parking is expensive. Besides, it’s easy to get around downtown Toronto without a car. The city has a good public transportation system, and places are close together so it doesn’t take long to walk to them. Every major city in North America has an area called downtown. Downtown Toronto is the busiest part of the city. It’s where the financial district is located, as well as the local government buildings. There are also sports and entertainment venues, tourist attractions, shopping areas, and different neighborhoods, like Chinatown. I met my friend at Union Station, which is the main transportation hub in downtown Toronto. From there, I took her on a short walking tour. We stopped for a bite to eat at a restaurant on Front St., and then we walked through part of the underground shopping center that connects all the office buildings downtown. There was a free concert in the public square in front of City Hall, so we stopped to watch it for a little while. We had a fun time. I wish she could have stayed in Toronto for a few more days. Listen: The Worst Bus Ride. Ever! | Episode 02 [the_ad id=”6010″] PRONUNCIATION TIP How to say names of places and streets in a city In the story, I mentioned the name of a street in Toronto, as well the names of two places. I don’t recommend memorizing rules, but there are pronunciation guidelines that you can follow. Official place names are proper nouns, and usually the last word is stressed in a proper noun. [Remember: Stress = say the word louder & longer than the other word.] Listen carefully: Union Station City Hall I don’t recommend memorizing rules, because there’s always an exception. In the story, I also mentioned the name of a street in downtown Toronto. Street names are proper nouns, too. However, when a street name includes the word street , stress the first word, or the word before street . Don’t stress the word street . Listen carefully: FRONT Street, not Front STREET Here are some more street names in Toronto: Yonge Street King Street Queen Street Here are some famous street names in the United States: Main Street (every U.S. town & city) Bourbon Steet (New Orleans) Canal Street (NYC & New Orleans) Lombard Street (San Francisco) Beacon Street (Boston) QUESTIONS Do you live near a big city? When your family and friends come to visit you, where do you take them? Do you take them to see any major tourist attractions? Leave me a comment below!…
English Listening: My Car Died | Episode 19 | English Teacher Melanie [smart_track_player url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/englishteachermelanie/My_Car_Died__Episode_19_-_English_Teacher_Melanie.mp3″ title=”19 MY CAR DIED” artist=”ENGLISH TEACHER MELANIE” social=”true” social_twitter=”true” social_facebook=”true” social_gplus=”true” social_pinterest=”true” ] Listen to a story about how my car died! You’ll also learn how to pronounce the vowel combination AU , like in the words “August” and “auto.” Welcome to the English Teacher Melanie Podcast , a podcast for intermediate to advanced English learners who want to improve their English listening and speaking skills! Each episode includes a story and a pronunciation tip. In the story, I use core vocabulary , the most common words in English, to tell a real world story. The pronunciation tip will help you understand natural spoken English. You’ll hear the story twice. The first time, the story is a little slower than normal. It sounds funny because I used editing software to change the speed of the story and make it slower. After the pronunciation tip, you’ll hear the story again, but at a regular speed. THE STORY My car died last October. I was sad, but I wasn’t surprised. I knew my car was on its last legs. It happened on a Wednesday while I was driving around doing some errands. As I was driving, I noticed that the steering wheel was slowly moving to the left on its own, even though I was driving in a straight line and the wheels weren’t turning. I could also hear something rattling underneath the car. I finished my errands and got home safely, but I knew it was the last time I would ever drive my car. It’s hard to explain what went wrong with my car, because I don’t know a lot about cars. Here’s what my dad explained to me. There are small rods underneath the car that are part of the steering system. These rods are important, because they connect the front wheels to the steering mechanism. The rods underneath my car had rusted and part of one had broken off, which meant that I couldn’t completely control the front wheels with the steering wheel. There was no point in getting it fixed because the repairs would have cost more than the car was worth. I sold the car to the scrapyard. Nowadays scrapyards are called auto recycling companies, or auto recyclers. They pay cash for scrap cars, which are broken-down cars that can no longer be driven. The rest of the car was still in great condition, especially the interior, so the scrapyard will take the car apart and sell the parts to other customers. It was a sad day when my car was towed away to the scrapyard. I loved my car. I bought it brand new in 2001 and I drove it everywhere. It was the only car I’ve ever owned. I haven’t bought another car yet. I work from home, so a car isn’t a necessity. I’m thinking about buying a one- or two-year-old used car. That’s more affordable than buying a brand new car. Listen: The Car Accident | Episode 32 My License Plate | Episode 08 [the_ad id=”6010″] PRONUNCIATION TIP How to pronounce the vowel combination AU This transcript uses IPA symbols to represents sounds and teach pronunciation. Learn more about the IPA here . In the story, I used the word auto. This is a great opportunity to look at how to pronounce the vowel combination AU. You’re probably saying to yourself, “ Melanie, I already know how to pronounce words with AU. “ I want you to listen to this pronunciation tip anyway, because you may be surprised by it. Many of my students try to say the sound /aʊ/ when they see this vowel combination. They say things like August /ˈaʊgəst/ instead of August /ˈɑɡəst/. The vowel combination AU is almost never pronounced /aʊ/, so if you’ve been pronouncing it that way, you’ll need to relearn a few words! The vowel combination AU is pronounced /ɑ/. This is a very easy sound to make. Your mouth opens from your jaw, as if you were yawning. Your lips are relaxed and not rounded. Your tongue is flat on the bottom of your mouth. /ɑ/ Here are some words with the AU vowel combination at the beginning of a word: August audience author autumn automatic audition auto [automobile] Here are some words with the AU vowel combination in the middle of a word: laundry daughter caught [past tense of catch] taught [past tense of teach] haunt Of course, there are exceptions to every rule in English. There are some words where the AU vowel combination is not pronounced /ɑ/, for example, the words laugh & laughter , and dinosaur . However, these are exceptions and most of the time, the vowel combination AU is pronounced /ɑ/. QUESTIONS Do you have a car? Have you ever had a problem with your car? Leave me a comment below!…
[smart_track_player url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/englishteachermelanie/Lesson_18_-_Garage_Sales_-_English_Teacher_Melanie.mp3″ title=”18 GARAGE SALES” artist=”ENGLISH TEACHER MELANIE” social=”true” social_twitter=”true” social_facebook=”true” social_gplus=”true” social_pinterest=”true” social_email=”true” ] Listen to a story about a couple garages sales I had this summer! You’ll also learn how to hear the difference between “can” and “can’t.” Welcome to the English Teacher Melanie Podcast , a podcast for intermediate to advanced English learners who want to improve their English listening and speaking skills! Each episode includes a story and a pronunciation tip. In the story, I use core vocabulary , the most common words in English, to tell a real world story. The pronunciation tip will help you understand natural spoken English. You’ll hear the story twice. The first time, the story is a little slower than normal. It sounds funny because I used editing software to change the speed of the story and make it slower. After the pronunciation tip, you’ll hear the story again, but at a regular speed. THE STORY How do you get rid of things you don’t want anymore? You can sell them on the internet, you can give them to family or friends, you can donate them to charity, or you can have a garage sale. A garage sale is an event held in the driveway of a home, usually on a Saturday morning, where people sell things that they don’t need anymore. This kind of shopping is a popular hobby. Some people look for specific things, like baby clothes or electronics. Other people just like to browse. You never know what you’re going to find at a garage sale! Listen: Shopping for a New Dress | Episode 15 I held my first garage sale in the summer of 2011. It was somewhat of a success. I made good money, but I got so annoyed with people. I didn’t have a problem with people trying to bargain and get a good deal. That’s what people do at garage sales! Here’s what annoyed me: I priced an item at $5. A woman offered me $4 for it & I accepted her offer. Then she gave me a $5 bill & I had to give her change. If she had a $5 bill, why didn’t she just pay $5 for the item? It was a small thing, but it really bothered me. I decided to have another garage sale in September 2013. This time, I priced things at odd amounts, like $7, so that a buyer could give me a $5 bill and still feel like he got a good deal. It was raining the day of the garage sale, not pouring rain, but enough that I had to keep everything in the garage. I wanted to put signs up around the neighborhood advertising our garage sale, but the rain would have destroyed them. I had put an ad in the local paper, so people still came even though it was raining! I made more money at this garage sale than at the one I had in 2011! Garage sales are fun. They usually happen from late spring to early fall in Canada. The weather is beautiful during that time, so it’s a nice way to spend a Saturday morning. I enjoy talking to all the different people who come to garage sales. You don’t become rich from a garage sale, but it’s a nice way to earn some pocket money. Anything that doesn’t sell, I donate to charity. NOTES: Sometimes a garage sale is also called a yard sale . Also, Canadian money includes: 5 cent, 10 cent, 25 cent, $1 & $2 coins, $5, $10, $20, $50, $100 bills. PRONUNCIATION TIP Listen carefully to these two sentences. Can you hear the difference? You can give them away. You can’t give them away. Can you hear the difference between can and can’t in natural spoken English? It’s not the T at the end of can’t that’s the difference, it’s the way that can is pronounced. The modal verb can is a function word, so it’s not stressed in a sentence. It’s not fully pronounced. It’s said very quickly, and the vowel is reduced to the schwa sound /ə/. Can is pronounced /kən/ in natural spoken English. Listen again, and try to imitate the sound I make: /kən/ Can’t is NOT a function word. It’s a stressed word in a sentence, so it’s always fully pronounced. Listen to another pair of sentences: Can you hear me? I can’t hear you. Can is not reduced at the end of a sentence. If it’s the last word in a thought group or a sentence, it’s fully pronounced, for example: I don’t think I can Listen to the story again, so you can get used to hearing the reduced form of can . LISTEN TO MORE LESSONS HERE !…
[smart_track_player url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/englishteachermelanie/The_Car_Accident__Episode_32_-_English_Teacher_Melanie.mp3″ title=”32 The Car Accident” artist=”English Teacher Melanie” social=”true” social_twitter=”true” social_facebook=”true” social_gplus=”true” social_pinterest=”true” ] Listen to a story about a car accident I had many years ago! You’ll also learn how to say the modal verb phrases “should have” and “should not have” in fast, natural spoken English. Welcome to the English Teacher Melanie Podcast, a podcast for intermediate to advanced English learners who want to improve their English listening and speaking skills! Each episode includes a story and a pronunciation tip. In the story, I use core vocabulary, the most common words in English, to tell a real world story. The pronunciation tip will help you understand natural spoken English. You’ll hear the story twice. The first time, the story is a little slower than normal. It sounds funny because I used editing software to change the speed of the story and make it slower. After the pronunciation tip, you’ll hear the story again, but at a regular speed. THE STORY I consider myself a good driver. I’ve been driving for over 20 years. I’ve only been in one accident and I’ve only gotten one speeding ticket. Still, I hate making left turns, because I got in an accident once making a left-hand turn. We drive on the right-hand side of the road in North America, so when you make a left turn, you’re driving in front of cars coming in the opposite direction. Learn more: Use the present perfect to talk about your life experiences The accident happened at a busy intersection. I’d been waiting a while in the left-hand turn lane at the traffic lights, and there was one car in front of me. The light turned amber and the car in front of me turned left. I followed the car hoping to beat the red light. I’d just assumed that the cars in the other direction had already stopped since the car in front of me was turning left. Learn more: How to use I, me, myself, and my I saw too late that a car had sped up and was trying to beat the red light. I was hit in the middle of the intersection. The car slammed into my passenger-side door. I completed the left-hand turn and pulled over to the side of the road. There was an off-duty police officer in the car behind me who witnessed the accident. I don’t remember who called the police, but an officer arrived at the scene. He explained that both drivers were at fault and he gave both of us tickets. I shouldn’t have tried to rush through the amber light. I should have checked that all the cars had stopped before I started the left turn. I wasn’t hurt. The other driver wasn’t hurt, either. There was damage to the passenger-side door and it cost me a lot of money to repair the door! I didn’t fight the ticket in court. I paid the fine. Now, I avoid making left-hand turns as much as possible, especially at a busy intersection! Listen: My Car Died | Episode 19 My License Plate | Episode 08 [the_ad id=”6010″] PRONUNCIATION TIP HOW TO SAY “SHOULD HAVE” AND “SHOULD NOT HAVE” IN FAST NATURAL SPOKEN ENGLISH This transcript uses IPA symbols to represent sounds and teach pronunciation. Learn more about the IPA here. Listen to a sentence from the story: I should have checked that all the cars had stopped Did you hear the modal verb phrase should have in that sentence? In fast, natural spoken English, should have is pronounced /ʃʊɾəv/. Should The modal verb should is only 3 sounds: ʃ ʊ d The L is silent. Don’t say the L. Should rhymes with good, wood/would, and hood. Click here to see if your language has the vowel sound [ʊ]: (Wikipedia) Have Have, in this phrase, is an auxiliary verb. It’s a helping verb. The main verb is the verb after have. To make the verb phrase easier to say, should and have are contracted. They form the spoken contraction “should’ve.” “Should’ve” is an informal written contraction. In formal writing, like in an essay or in a report for work, it is better to write out should have. Both Merriam-Webster’s Learner’s Dictionary and the Cambridge Dictionary list “should’ve” as a contraction of should and have. However, one of the grammar books that I use, Practical English Usage by Michael Swan, does not list “should’ve” as an accepted written contraction. The helping verb have is reduced in this contraction. It becomes the sound /əv/. Yes, it sounds the same as the preposition of. There is no H sound and the vowel sound becomes the reduced vowel schwa sound [ə]. Learn more: The reduced form of the preposition of | Episode 09 The D is between two vowel sounds, and it’s at the beginning of an unstressed syllable. It becomes the alveolar flap sound. I talk about this sound in a few pronunciation tips, because it’s a common sound in American English. Listen: Pronunciation tips that explain the alveolar flap sound episode 31 episode 30 episode 26 episode 24 The T and D consonant sounds have the same mouth position. T is voiceless and D is voiced. However, both become the same alveolar flap sound when they’re at the beginning of an unstressed syllable and between two vowel sounds. The alveolar flap sound is not a T or a D sound. It’s a quick tongue tap. The tip of your tongue quickly hits or taps the gum ridge behind your top teeth. Listen carefully: /ʃʊɾəv/ -or- /ʃʊt̬əv/ Notice that I’m not saying /ʃʊdəv/ with a hard D sound. I should have checked that all the cars had stopped … In very fast, informal speech, some speakers will shorten have even more and just say the reduced vowel schwa sound [ə]: /ʃʊɾə/ -or- /ʃʊt̬ə/ Shouldn’t have Listen to another sentence from the story: I shouldn’t have tried to rush through the amber light. Did you hear the modal verb phrase should not have in that sentence? In fast, natural spoken English, shouldn’t have is pronounced /ʃʊdnəv/. Shouldn’t is a contraction of the words should and not. The contraction ends with the letters D, N, T. I’ve already told you that the D and T have the same mouth position. Both sounds start with the tip of your tongue pressed against the gum ridge behind your top teeth. This is ALSO the starting mouth position for the N consonant sound. The difference is that the N consonant sound is continuous and it comes out of your nose. Try it: [n] When you say the first part should, don’t finish the D sound. Stop the sound, but keep the tip of your tongue pressed up against the gum ridge behind your top teeth. Without moving your tongue, go straight into the N sound. Listen: /ʃʊdn/ The N and T have the same mouth position, they are both in the unstressed syllable, and the T is followed by a vowel sound. When that happens, American English speakers skip the T sound and go straight into the next sound. The next sound is the reduced form of have. Put those sounds together: ʃʊd n əv /ʃʊdnəv/ I shouldn’t have tried … Again, in very fast, informal speech, some speakers will shorten have even more and just say the reduced vowel schwa sound [ə]: /ʃʊdnə/ When American English speakers are speaking slowly or when they want to speak clearly, they may say should have or should not have very clearly. It’s not wrong to fully pronounce these modal verb phrases. It’s important that you know all the ways of saying these phrases so that you can hear all the ways of saying them. Note: the IPA symbol for the alveolar flap is [ɾ]. However, none of the dictionaries for English learners use this symbol, maybe because it looks too much like an r. Some dictionaries do not use any symbol to represent the flap sound. They use use the regular [t] symbol. Other dictionaries use the symbol [ t̬ ]. I have chosen to use both in this pronunciation tip. QUESTIONS Have you ever been in an accident? 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