![]() ![]() ![]() The video is suitable for late A2, B1, B2, and even C1 students, who will have learned the basic -ED rules but may still struggle to produce the sounds accurately. They are old songs, but I hope the activity will still appeal to students. So I decided to put together a 7-minute video containing 12 song excerpts you can use to help your students notice how /t/ and /d/ are linked to the vowel sounds that follow. Out of all the ideas and techniques I’ve used in class, this has probably been the most effective. This makes it obvious that there’s no room for /ɪ/: To help students get their tongues around the two sounds, I usually ask them to move /t/ and /d/ to the front of the vowel sound. Over the years, I have found that /t/ and /d/ are easier to notice and to produce if the verb comes immediately before a word beginning with a vowel sound: As you know, the “-ed” endings of regular past tense verbs can be pronounced in three different ways: /t/, /d/ and /ɪd/, which is the one most students tend to overuse. ![]()
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