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a. Exclamation
Listen and repeat.
Oh dear? How horrible!
How awful! How ramble!
Practise responding to these statements with an exclamation.
EXAMPLE
A: Hamish has had an accident.
B: How awful!
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1. A helicopter has hit Adrian's house.
2. Harry's holiday hotel was hit by the hurricane.
3. Andrew spent all his holiday in hospital.
4. Haley hit herself with a heavy hammer.
5. Ellen’s husband is ill in hospital.
6. I've hurt my hand and I can’t hold anything.
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b. Word linking with /h/
Notice that in rapid spoken English, words are sometimes linked by the disappearance of the sound /h/. The sound I h/ often disappears in the weak forms of: he, him, his, her, has, had, have. Like the word and in 2e, the pronunciation of these words changes with strong or weak stress in a sentence. |
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Now listen and mark the disappearing / h/ sound in the questions below while you read silently.
EXAMPLE 1 Who found (h)im? |
Detective at work: disappearing /h/ (bold it)
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Check your answers in the key. Then practise the questions. Record your voice to compare your production of these weakly stressed ‘h' words with the recording.
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