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FLUENCY TIPS - the trick to PRONOUNCING LONG COMPLICATED SENTENCES...

14/7/2015

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Everyone stumbles at some point on a longer sentence, be it beginner, intermediate or advanced, young or old... but many years ago I read a very simple TRICK which WORKS INFALLIBLY every time and your students gain lots of confidence in a jiffy:  prepare saying it backwards!

Here's a phrase you want your students to be able to say fluently:
Are you wearing your yellow sweater to school?
No, I don't want to wear that today!


You prompt and they copy:
school
to school
sweater to school
yellow sweater to school
your yellow sweater to school
wearing your yellow sweater to school
you wearing your yellow sweater to school
Are you wearing your yellow sweater to school?

today
that today
wear that today
to wear that today
want to wear that today
don't want to wear that today
I don't want to wear that today!

It might seem incredible, but it works every time and students gain confidence in their ability to pronounce language they may not fully grasp!

Try it out and have fun!
Susan

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7 Comments
Mira link
13/7/2015 02:21:01 am

Thank you! I will try it.

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ady
14/7/2015 05:43:09 am

I'm crossing my fingers for doing it
I really like to try, this is new but i can see the prospect to my students, thank you very much
Hope that you would like to share any of your tricks or methods.☺

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karabi paul
14/7/2015 06:24:26 am

This is a new and good method for teaching young students.

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Rajkumar sulsule
14/7/2015 07:30:32 am

Thanks from the bottom of my heart. I'll definitely try it with my students.

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naila pervaiz
15/7/2015 05:16:20 am

Good i will try this on my students.

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Sue link
15/7/2015 10:38:25 am

It's a great idea, namesake, to split the sentence as you suggest. I've been doing that every time my students come across a long sentence or even a long word. It does work. Best wishes from Uruguay.

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Christine Barr link
15/6/2022 10:15:45 am

Apprecciate this blog post

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    My name is Susan Brodar, born in London into a multilingual family and brought up bilingual English / Italian.

    I went to school in London until 15 when we moved to Germany where I finished my British education at Munich International School. I started teaching Italian at evening classes aged only 17 and studied Mass Communications and Journalism at Munich University.

    I continued teaching parallel to interpreting at trade fairs and business meetings as well doing translations. After working at the Italian Institute for Foreign Trade for a year I married my Italian globetrotting companion in 1983 and we set up our home near Venice, Italy where we continue to live with our two teenaged children.

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