2. Objectives
Students will be able differentiate between words with a
sound change and those without
Understand what the 4 sound change rules for palatalization
are
Read sentences with target sound changes
Use correct blending to make requests and ask common Wh-
questions
Learn to use several common phrase reductions
Learn about pragmatics for asking and responding to requests
(especially tricky answer to Would you mind + gerund)
4. Warm Up
1. What are your goals this year?
2. Where’s your key?
3. Won’t you clean your room?
4. Where did you put your bag?
5. Rules!
S
+ Y
This year as in shy
Z Where’s your as in pleasure
T Won’t you as in check
D Did you as in budge
6. Listening Discrimination
1. Take this yogurt.
Take thish yogurt.
2. Do you want me to freeze your beer?
Dja want me ta freezur beer?
3. Why couldn’t you be on time?
Why couldn’tcha beyon time
4. Where did you go last night?
Wheredja go last night
5. Could you do me a favor?
Couldja do me ya favor?
6. Would you like to go there?
Wouldja like ta go there?
7. Interview
1. What’s your full name?
2. Could you please spell that?
3. When did you come to this country?
4. How did you find out about this program?
5. What’s your favorite thing to do on the weekend?
6. What did you eat for breakfast?
10. What would you say?
Ex. You are cold. Would you please close the window?
Would you mind closing the window?
Could you close the window?
You trying to sleep but the television is very loud.
You forgot money for the bus.
You have a terrible itch on your back.
You dropped you fork on the floor at a restaurant.
11. Making Requests
Would you mind cleaning your room?
Could you…
Could you possibly…
Can you
Would you like to…
Can’t you…
Why couldn’t you…
12. Role Play
Requests: Would you mind…Could you…Could you possibly…
Questions: Why couldn’t you…Would you like to…Can’t you
13. Communicate
Would you ever
donate blood?
What would you like
to do in the future?
Would you ever pick
up a hitchhiker?
What country would
you like to visit
most?
Would you rather
have one long finger
or 10 short fingers?
What would you do
if you could
suddenly speak
English perfectly?
Would you rather
live in an apartment
building or a house?
Would you ever
consider getting
plastic surgery?
What would you do
if you won a lottery?
15. Gonna,Wanna,Wansta, Hafta, Hasta, Usta,
1. Going + to = gonna I’m going to call you soon.
2. Want + to = wanna I want to pay you back.
3. Wants + to = wansta She wants to be a doctor.
4. Have + to = hafta I have to go to the bank.
5. Has + to = hasta She has to study tonight.
6. Used + to = usta Mary used to live in Paris.
16. Reductions are normal
1. I have to go to the bank after class. I’m going to
deposit a cheque. I want to get there before it
closes.
2. My sister has to go shopping. I don’t want to go
with her. She’s going to take forever looking at
clothes.
3. He is going to study for a big test this weekend.
He’s hard working now, but he used to be so lazy.
17. Practice
1. I want to ______, but I have to ______, so I’m going
to ______.
Ex. I want to go to your party, but I have to babysit my
brother, so I’m going to stay home.
2. My sister wants to ______, but she ______, so she’s
going to ______.
Ex. My sister wants to go to the beach, but she needs to
look for a job, so she’s going to skip it.
18. Woulda, Shoulda, Coulda
Regrets:
A: You’re late! You should have been here 2 hours ago.
B: I’m sorry. I would have called you but I didn’t have your number.
A: You could have emailed me.
B: Yes, I should have done that.
would have
+ past participle verbshould have
could have
19. What’s your regret?
1. Oh no! It was my mother’s birthday last week!
2. I wish I studied harder when I was young.
3. I’m sorry. I didn’t know that you needed help.
Should have + p.p.
Could have + p.p
Would have + p.p
Speech act: wh-questions, making requests, gonna, coulda/shoulda/woulda (is this too much?)
What does the letter combination sound like?
With What’s your it is more of a ch than sh because of the dominant T soundCheck this out
What’s your changes to WhachurWhen you have what’s the s isn’t pronounced and palatalization happens
Students have to make a request for the given situation. The other student must respond to the request. Teach any grammar that comes up related to basic request responses. After the students practice giving their own situation and the other student makes a request that matches that situation and the other student replies. Explain how to respond to a Would you mind request.
Three on bottom are related questionsWould you like to… (often indirect request)
Your daughter’s room is a disaster. Circle things that you think are problems in the room. Take turns telling her what should change. Use the expressions below to make requests and ask questions. Then do a role play with another student. One person will be the daughter the others will be her family members.
Wants + to = wantstaHave to/has to - necessity*Used to - past situation that is no longer trueTeacher asks students questions using this target blends1- What do you halfa do after class?2-How hasta cook in your family?3-Did you usta have long hair?4-When do you hafta wake up in the morning?5-What city did you used to live in?
In normal speech people reduce these words. It is not slang or informal speech.
Maybe deletwoulda since hard to explain the difference in usageWould have indicates that under normal situations you would have acted differently, need to should that situation was abnormal and therefore that event didn’t happen the way that you wanted it toStudy this more