Pronunciation: spoken short forms

(A2), B1, B2

"I dunno." "Whatcha doing?  "Lemme see". These are all examples of short forms we use in informalconversational English. In this activity from the BBC Learning English site, you will practise identifying and then pronouncing phrases like these in example sentences or dialogues. Activity time: 20 to 40 minutes.

I dunno

Task

There are three audio activities to do. Note that for each one, you can click on "Show transcript" to see the text if necessary. Go to the activity here.

1 Listen to the audio for Activity 1 and read the vocabulary notes on the page.
2 Click on "Next Activity" to go to Activity 2.  Listen to the audio and note the short expressions you hear. Then do the quiz that follows: "Spot the short forms"
3 Click on "Next Activity" again  to go to Activity 3.  Just listen and repeat when the speaker asks you.