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Misunderstandings are going to happen, and not only involving people who are learning the language. This example could easily be between an Australian and a British speaker.

In my last class, a South Korean student told me about his weekend visit to Liverpool. He said it wasn’t easy to understand the local way of speaking, and gave the example of the question word What? He demonstrated how this word had been said, with the final ‘t’ replaced with a silence, or glottal stop, so it sounds like wha’? Continue reading “The Sound of Silence”

A collection of extra resources like this to be added soon to the ‘Resources’ page! Free sample downloads for this activity in the ELT Materials section at hancockmcdonald.com.

Free sample downloads for this activity here in the Materials section at Hancock McDonald ELT website.

A collection of extra resources like this to be added soon to the ‘Resources’ page!