Hello and welcome back to another shadowing practice, or welcome if it's your first time.
My name is claire and i'm an english teacher and a native speaker from the united states.
Now, some of you have been in the comments saying that my introductions in these videos are too long.
So I hear you and I'm going to keep this one super short.
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And you can watch any of those introductions on those videos where I explain how this video will work, what the expectations are, what shadowing is.
If you don't know,
But for this one, we're going to jump right in.
All right, so a big request from a lot of you is the ED endings of verbs.
So the focus for this shadowing practice is to take a look at all three sounds that the ED ending in English can have.
As you may already know, English is not a phonetic language, which is why shadowing is such a useful practice, particularly for English.
And so when you see an ed at the end of a word, it doesn't always sound the same.
But good news for you, there are some rules that I can share with you that will tell you which sound the ending of a certain word takes.
So the shadowing practice I have for you today has all three ED ending sounds.
I'm going to point them out to you.
We're going to practice pronouncing them together.
First, you're going to repeat after me.
The other day, I decided to bake some cookies because I'd invited a friend over.
Your turn.
Let's say it again.
The other day, I decided to bake some cookies because I'd invited a friend over.
I then started cleaning the kitchen and the rest of the apartment.
I then started cleaning the kitchen and the rest of the apartment, because I wanted the place to look nice.
Because I wanted the place to look nice.
Okay, so in this paragraph we have four verbs that end in ed and they all take the same sound id, id.
If I say it very slow, decided, invited, started, wanted.
So you can hear that each ending is id.
Now you'll know, a verb takes this sound as the ending if it ends in a T or a D.
So take the verb decide.
Okay, it ends in an E, but it ends in a D sound.
The E is silent, right?
So because it ends in this D sound in the past tense form, it's going to take the id sound, sound ending.
Same with the verb invite.
Again, it has a silent E, it ends with a T sound, so it takes the id ending.
Start and want end in t's end with the letter t, so it takes this id ending.
Now you may have noticed i didn't pronounce a hard t when the verb has a t, and that's because in american english we tend to drop the t if it.
If it ends in a word, or if it is in the middle of a word, it becomes a flap t.
So it sounds like a d invited started.
Now the word wanted.
This one would be maybe a little bit of an exception.
We would drop the T altogether.
Wanted, wanted, you could pronounce it.
Or I probably would pronounce the T, wanted.
A very soft T, wanted, wanted.
Okay, so there's your first rule.
You can remember if a verb ends in a D or a T, or a D or T sound, then it would take the id ending.
So let's shadow this paragraph together.
Say it at the same time as I do.
Ready?
The other day, I decided to bake some cookies because I'd invited a friend over.
I then started cleaning the kitchen and the rest of the apartment, because I wanted the place to look nice.
Now, before we move on to the next section, I want to point out a couple phrases in here just for a learning experience in general for English.
So first we have the phrase the other day and that's just a general term, we use to say a few days ago or a day in the recent past.
So you could say, the other day I went grocery shopping or the other day I saw a movie.
You're not telling us what specific day it is, but you're just generally saying that it happened in the recent past.
So that's a great phrase to know.
And then the other expression i wanted to point out to you was i'd invited a friend over.
This word over.
What does that mean?
Well, it implies that you invited a friend to your house.
If you say i invited a friend over, it means the same as i invited a friend to my place.
Or you could say I invited a friend over to my place.
Or simply, I invited a friend over.
All right, let's move on to another ED ending sound.
Repeat after me.
My friend had recently moved and now lived nearby.
My friend had recently moved and now lived nearby.
She arrived right on time.
Again, she arrived right on time.
I opened the door, smiled and told her to come in.
I opened the door, smiled and told her to come in.
Okay, so maybe you've already noticed what sound these ED endings take.
Moved, lived, arrived, opened, smiled.
The ED ending is simply pronounced as dd.
And you can know this because verbs that end with a voiced sound take this ending.
So the verbs move, live, and arrive all have the voiced sound.
So you can actually make a sound on those consonants.
So that's what makes it voiced.
Open, we can .
We can make sound on the sound, so it's voiced.
And a little bit trickier is smile.
The L sound, yeah, it's voiced.
We can make sound on it.
Because they end in these voiced sounds, we know that when they are in the past tense in this ED form, the ED ending sounds like .
Now in rapid speech, We're not going to overly pronounce the D sound, right?
You may have noticed I didn't read it as my friend recently moved and now lived nearby.
It almost sounds like I drop the D ending.
But of course, it's useful for you to know that these verbs are not moved or lived, okay?
That's incorrect.
It's moved and lived.
In rapid speech the d is almost dropped live nearby, lived nearby.
It almost sounds like i dropped the d sound entirely and then i'm just saying live nearby.
You can think of it that way.
Definitely you still want to have the intention of speaking in the past tense, so that the intention of the past tense comes across.
Arrived right on time.
Open the door.
Okay, let's shadow this paragraph.
My friend had recently moved and now lived nearby.
She arrived right on time.
I opened the door, smiled, and told her to come in.
An expression I want to point out here is come in.
So if someone does come to your house, you can use that expression.
Come in, right?
That's an invitation for them to enter the house.
Come on in, you could also say.
Now, before we move on to the final ED ending sound that we can have in English.
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Repeat after me.
She looked around and asked, is something burning?
She looked around and asked, is something burning?
I stopped what I was doing and noticed I'd completely forgotten about the cookies I'd baked.
I stopped what I was doing and noticed I'd completely forgotten about the cookies.
I'd Okay, so the verbs ending in ED we have here are looked asked, stopped and baked.
Maybe you have already noticed you can already hear these ED endings sound like T, And have you noticed what they all have in common?
What is the rule here?
Well, if you said that all of these verbs end in unvoiced sounds, then you would be correct.
So before we had the verbs that end in the voiced sound, they took the D ending.
If the ending is unvoiced, they take the T ending.
So look, you can't make sound on that, on that consonant sound.
Stop.
That one's also unvoiced.
Notice. unvoiced.
So if they have an unvoiced ending, they take the t sound.
So let's go ahead and shadow this paragraph together.
Say it with me.
She looked around and asked, is something burning?
I stopped what I was doing and noticed I'd completely forgotten about the cookies I'd baked.
Repeat after me.
We ended up going out for some cake and coffee instead.
We ended up going out for some cake and coffee instead.
That's the last time I try to bake myself.
That's the last time I try to bake myself.
Okay, so we have one verb in this section that ends in ED ended ended and I want you to let me know in the comments which ending it takes and why.
Okay, let's shadow this final section together.
We ended up going out for some cake and coffee instead.
That's the last time I try to bake myself.
All right, guys.
So like every shadowing practice, let's end this one reading the entire story all the way through.
This part of the video is super helpful to repeat many, many times until you feel comfortable with all of the pronunciation and specifically the verbs ending in ED, which was our focus today.
But of course, just the overall intonation and flow of my speaking as a native speaker.
If you match that, you will sound more natural as well.
Here we go.
The other day, I decided to bake some cookies because I'd invited a friend over.
I then started cleaning the kitchen and the rest of the apartment, because I wanted the place to look nice.
My friend had recently moved and now lived nearby.
She arrived right on time.
I opened the door, smiled, and told her to come in.
She looked around and asked, is something burning?
I stopped what I was doing and noticed I'd completely forgotten about the cookies I'd baked.
We ended up going out for some cake and coffee instead.
That's the last time I tried to bake myself.
All right, I hope that shattering practice cleared up some of your questions about the verbs ending in ed.
Thank you so much for joining me today.
I'll see you in the next video.
Bye for now.
