This is Elliot from E.

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English.

And today we have a classic E T J English Lesson is a classic because we're talking about Fraser verbs.

Expressions on.

We're combining those with pronunciation.

Amazing e eso today we're looking at this sentence.

My friend gave me a lift yesterday.

He picked me up at the train station on, dropped me off at the airport because I needed to catch a flight.

So why this sentence?

Well, number one, it has a few Fraser verbs in it.

And Fraser verbs are an amazing way of sounding more like a native to because any sentence can actually help you with your Internation on.

We're going to talk a little bit about that today.

We're also going to learn about Cem connected speech, how we can link our words together.

But most importantly, this lesson, like a previous lesson I've done before, should teach you that you can take any sentence as long as it's a decent length and you can make it into a pronunciation learning experience.

Just a simple sentence out of a book.

You can learn so much from just that one sentence.

I practice this with my students who have joined my course all the time.

And it's an extremely effective technique for both learning expressions and Fraser verbs on, of course, improving that pronunciation at the same time.

So, firstly, let's take a look at the Fraser verbs in here we have gave or give me a lift.

Now to lift, something usually means to carry to pick something up and carry it somewhere right.

A lift can also be an elevator.

It's the British way of saying an elevator was something that we stand in that takes us up to another floor, right, But also, someone can give you a lift.

Now, if someone gives you a lift, that simply means they are carrying you in their vehicle or on their vehicle.

If it's a bike to a place that you need to go so they are transporting you.

So, for example, if I said to my friend, can you give me a lift?

That would simply mean can you take me somewhere in your vehicle or on your vehicle?

When we more often say this than say, for example, can you take me here, please?

Can you give me a lift?

Is a bit more friendly, a bit more natural, and it's really, really common.

So if someone was giving me a lift, they would first need to pick me up.

This is where we come to our next phrase of verb to be picked up, of course.

Again, just like lifting something, we can pick up something.

For example, this pencil is on my table.

I'm going to pick it up.

Okay.

But also, someone could pick me up again.

They could lift me, carry me like I just carried that pencil.

But also to pick someone up could mean to collect them.

So, for example, if I'm giving someone a lift, I would first need to pick them up, meaning drive to their place, their location to get them in my car so I can then take them where they need to g o which leads me on to the next one, which is to drop someone off.

If I'm dropping someone off, that would be when we arrive at their destination on they leave my vehicle.

Okay, so someone's going to give me a lift.

But to give me that lift, they need to pick me up and then when we arrive at our location, they're then going to drop me off outside or wherever and then finally to catch something.

Now you can catch a cold meaning to get sick.

You can catch a bald when somebody throws it at you.

You can catch many things physically as well.

But if I'm going to catch a flight, catch a train, catch a bus that simply means to use or use the transport.

Okay, so I'm going to catch a bus.

That means I'm going to get on.

I'm going to use the bus.

So let's start at the beginning of the sentence.

My friend gave me a lift yesterday.

So my friend gave me a lift yesterday.

Me and a me ends with a vowel.

Ah is a Schwab sound.

Okay, it begins or it is a vowel.

Now, if we have a word which finishes with an E, which is a smiling vowel on a word which begins with a vowel, we're going to use a continent on the continent we're going to use is a yah sound to join them together.

So it becomes my friend gave me a lift Mia a bit like the name mia m I A mia.

My friend gave me a lift yesterday.

Let's also talk about the pronunciation of yesterday.

I hear so many students pronounce the word yesterday wrong whether they're pronouncing the r and they're saying yesterday or there are many different ways Yes, today?

Yes, today.

Yesterday my friend gave me a lift yesterday.

Next part of the sentence, he picked me up from the train station.

He picked me up.

It's happening again.

Me?

Yup.

So we're doing what we call intrusive sounds again.

The sound is appearing.

He picked me up from the train station.

Listen to the word from from the train station.

We're not saying from the train station.

We're actually saying from the train station.

So the word from is being pronounced as kind of like from from from the train station.

The reason why is because the word from is really not very important in this sentence.

On there are some of these words which we call function words their words which can have a weak form because they're not very important in a sentence.

So in this case, the word from is becoming from because we want to say it fast to keep the rhythm and to get the stressed words faster.

Other words.

This happens with, Ah, words like to becoming tough for becoming fuck.

It happens a lot, and we use the Schwab sound mostly to kind of reduce these words into a week of form.

He picked me up from the train station train station.

Great way to practice the A diff on a train station and, of course, station finishes with a Schwab's down sound station.

Shin Yoon Eun station.

Okay, so he picked me up from the train station from the train station.

If you're having difficulty getting to the from the, then there's a little tip I talked previously in one of my lessons.

When we're pronouncing the th sound really fast, sometimes weaken, just quickly tap the back of the teeth.

So from the train station from the train station, I'm actually very quickly tapping the back of my teeth.

I'm not completely pushing my tongue between my teeth for that th sound, and that is something which natives do.

Sometimes.

Next part of the sentence on dropped me off at the airport.

Andi dropped me off again, me off at or if you want to sound more native at where we dropped the tea, the at the on.

The reason we're saying the and not the is because airport begins with a vowel sound or a diff thong sound, which is still a vowel on.

That means we're going to be again pronouncing the as the because that's what we do When the next word begins with a vowel, we pronounce the as the So It's the airport.

Now we're linking again.

The the airport we're producing.

Ah, yeah.

Sound Airport begins with the air depth on a ohh airport.

Now try it all together.

The airport, the airport.

It's quite a difficult one again, the word Onda At the beginning of this sentence, I could say and dropped me off and dropped me off instead of saying and dropped me off.

The reason why is because Andi again not very important in this sentence, we could class it as a function word so we can drop most of the word and pronounce it as a kind of unsound and dropped me off instead of under dropped me off because there's too much going on their final part of the sentence because I needed to catch a flight because I needed to catch a flight now because I So now we have a different situation.

This is called Linking What we were previously doing with Mia was intrusive sounds where we create an intrusive sound.

But here we're doing what we call linking on.

This is when we have a word which finishes with a continent sound on the next word begins with a vowel sound.

So we have because which ends with a Z on I which begins with a vow.

So we're actually going to use the at the end of because to join to the I because I because I needed to catch a flight again to is a function words that were pronouncing it as toe to catch a flight to capture flight again capture catcher So the word catch is joining with us because it ends with the continent on it.

The next word is a vowel catcher flights who now finally let's join the whole sentence together and I want you to mimic my Internation.

Listen to my Internation on dcaa p me Pause it if you need thio.

Okay, I'm going to read it off my screen because I have a really bad memory.

Okay?

My friend gave me a lift yesterday.

He picked me up from the train station on, dropped me off at the airport because I needed to catch a flight.

So my Internation, let's just briefly go over Internation is a very complex topic on again.

You can learn really details about this in my course, but just to give you a vague idea When we finished speaking, we take the tone down.

That's the most important thing to know.

It's how our listener knows that we finished speaking so at the very end of this sentence because I needed to catch a flight, catch a flight.

We're going down at the end because we want to show that listener that we finished speaking.

Remember that the stressed words.

So the words which you think sound important in this sentence we're going to raise the tone now when we stress this is something you really need to understand.

Tone is mawr important in stress than saying the word louder or saying it more aggressively or making it longer?

The most important part of stress is just raising the tone slightly on the stressed syllable off the stressed word, just giving it a bit more of an emphasis really important to do that.

So, for example, my friend gave me a lift.

My friend gave me a lift.

I'm not really saying friend on lift louder or anything.

I'm actually just raising my tone.

I'm making the words just a just a bit stronger, really.

That's all I'm doing.

There's no need to say it aggressively just to make the stress hurt.

Okay on the thing, which makes the stress and the tone all come together.

Is those function words making words week when they're not important, saying them nice and fast so that we can get to the stressed words faster?

As I said, I could give you a massive Internation lesson on all of this.

But intonation is a very, very complicated topic, and everybody has a different tone and have to work with you directly if you need help with intonation.

This is why I offer a WhatsApp, or wechat service.

When people join my course.

It comes with the course.

People are able to send me voice messages whenever they want, and I give them feedback on how they're doing in the course, their pronunciation, the vowels, the continent's everything on.

Also tell them what's going right and wrong with their Internation and how they can improve it so as well as it being an online course.

It's also constant contact with me, a professional teacher and accent coach.

So if you do want to join, you can just press the link below and see more information about the course.

I'd love to help you.

I really hope this lesson helped you today.

It really does show you how one sentence or one kind of big little piece of speech.

Big slash little piece of speech.

Big little that doesn't really make sense.

It's amazing how this can help you with seeing how much is in the language connected speech, weak forms.

So I really hope this lesson helped you today, and I look forward to reading your comments below.

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If you enjoyed the video, I will see you next time.

Cheers, guys, by E.