17/04/2011
ANOTHER RESOURCE
You can download the theory material from this wiki, which we will also be using for our extra-classes activities: http://www.phonetics2lab.pbworks.com/
TRANSCRIPTION PRACTICE
Here you have three short texts to transcribe and check before next class. Try to transcribe it WITHOUT using your dictionaries. Remember that I will upload the key versions during the current week. Good luck!
1. I suppose it's nearly fifteen years now that we've been friends. She's like a sister to me. There have been various times when we haven't been in touch a lot... but we've always known more or less what's going on in the other one's life... so that's been OK. The thing is... I know definitely that if I ever really, really needed her help for whatever reason, if I was ever in trouble, she's be there for me.. for sure! And likewise of course.
2. I used to have a best friend -someone that I was incredibly close to. But then she did something I got really upset about. We tried to talk about it, but it all got pretty messy and we stopped talking for a while... and then I moved abroad. Funnily enough, I got a letter from her just a week ago or so. She's suggesting some kind of meeting to talk about it. I'm not sure how I feel about it all. I need to think about it.
3. A group of us... all really good friends you know... drove down to Spain on holiday together this summer. I was sure we were going to have a fantastic time... but I couldn't have been more wrong! I suppose, I hadn't thought about how different we all are and how some people can be incredibly selfish. There were loads of arguments and we could never agree about what we were going to do. That's definitely the last time I do that kind of holiday!
1. I suppose it's nearly fifteen years now that we've been friends. She's like a sister to me. There have been various times when we haven't been in touch a lot... but we've always known more or less what's going on in the other one's life... so that's been OK. The thing is... I know definitely that if I ever really, really needed her help for whatever reason, if I was ever in trouble, she's be there for me.. for sure! And likewise of course.
2. I used to have a best friend -someone that I was incredibly close to. But then she did something I got really upset about. We tried to talk about it, but it all got pretty messy and we stopped talking for a while... and then I moved abroad. Funnily enough, I got a letter from her just a week ago or so. She's suggesting some kind of meeting to talk about it. I'm not sure how I feel about it all. I need to think about it.
3. A group of us... all really good friends you know... drove down to Spain on holiday together this summer. I was sure we were going to have a fantastic time... but I couldn't have been more wrong! I suppose, I hadn't thought about how different we all are and how some people can be incredibly selfish. There were loads of arguments and we could never agree about what we were going to do. That's definitely the last time I do that kind of holiday!
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