英语语音教案第十一单元连读(1)Unit 11 Linking(1)

详细教学内容
I. Introduction
Today, we’ll learn a concept called linking. Watch a video of Obama’s speech. What phenomena do you notice in his speech?
II. What is linking?
Linking means connecting and in speech linking is to connect two words together. The native speakers of English naturally and fluently connect words together. If you don’t link words together, your speech will sound like stiff(生硬的) and mechanical, a kind like computer generating word: Hi! How are you? So it is important to link words together so you can sound smooth and your speech will be interesting to listen to and you’ll have the natural and smooth connection.
(They move smoothly from one word to the next without making any sudden stops. So when we listen to their speech, we hear the end of one word flow straight into the beginning of the next. This phenomenon of joining words together is called linking.)
III. How to link words in English speech?
Speakers of English join words together by blending or joining the last sound of a word with the initial sound of the following word. Following are the various ways to help you achieve the linking so that your speech will become fluent and natural. 1、When a word ends with a consonant and the following word begins with a vowel, we connect these words together--- we link the final consonant to the initial vowels of the following word.
当一个词以辅音结尾，后面一个词以元音开头时, 将前一个单词结尾的辅音与下一个单词开头的元音连在一起读.
It is a book. Or : It’s a book.
In an instant
Take an apple.
He lives in America.
John is a friend of mine.
Can I look at it?
Give him a pen.
There is a generation gap between us.
2、To link the final vowels /з:/ and / / to a following vowel by adding the /r/ sound, which is called linking-r, as in "her own", or intrusive-r, as in "the idea of".
如果前一个词以元音/ : / /α: // : / / / / i/ /ε/ / u/结尾，后
一个以元音开头，朗读的时候可以在两个音中间加上一个/r/音，这种现象叫做/r/连读。

more interesting
four inches
for a few week
a mother of two
sure as it is
on our own
连读
汉英两种语言不仅在音节结构上有很大的差别，在话语中词与词的连接上也有一套规则。

英语话语中同一意群的词之间的关系是极为密切的。

部分学生意识不到这一点，话语中不会通过连读、同化等方法使意群中的词与词之间产生一定的联系。

结果是所说的话语语流欠妥，听者不易听懂；有的人在听英美人士说话时常常将连读的词组或经过音的同化的词组当作是自己没有学过的词汇。

这种影响在初学者中极为常见。

连读是英语口语中非常普遍的语音现象。

如果你在说英语时一个一个单词地的讲而不是按照英语的语音规律将词与词连接起来，听者完全可能听不懂你在说什么。

掌握英语连读这一语音现象不仅有助于提高我们英语话语的流利程度，有助于信息的表达，同时也有助于提高我们的听力。

英语话语中词与词之间应该如何连读？
简单地说，连读时就是把位于前面的单词的最后一个音与下一个单词的第一
个音自然地混为一体, 使你的话语听起来流利自然。

以下几种连读的方法可以帮
你达到这一目的。

There are three important things that you need to know about linking:
(1)Don’t speak very fast
A lot of students when they first learn the concept of linking, they think they have to
speak very fast: John is a friend of mine. That is not what linking is. Linking is smooth and connected speech.
(2)Stress the content words
You still need to remember the concept of stress the content/ key words.
John is a friend of mine.
(3)Don’t link between two thought groups
For example, if I say : I’ll call you up / in an instant. You don’t link when
there is a coma, or when you want to make a pause.
在学习英语连读时需要注意的是：连读是连贯讲话时自然发生的语音现象。

讲话的语速快了，相邻的词一气呵成地连贯而出则是再自然不过的了。

反之，说话语速慢时,连读的现象自然就少一些。

因此，不要把连读理解成有意识的拼读,使之显得生硬、欠自然。