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I'm Chris from England and this is for Mojtaba Yaghoubi and the Facebook page ... at address
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This short lesson is to give you a chance to hear me reading
a confusing poem which should help you with British English pronunciation.
Please read the words on the screen to follow it.
Unfortunately, this poem is anonymous so we don't know who wrote it.
I'm from England, so what you're hearing today is a southern English accent.
Here then is the poem,
I hope you like it:
I take it you already know Of tough and bough and cough and dough?
Others may stumble, but not you, On hiccough, thorough, lough and through?
Well done! And now you wish, perhaps, To learn of less familiar traps?
Beware of heard, a dreadful word That looks like beard and sounds like bird,
And dead: it's said like bed, not bead - For goodness sake don't call it deed!
Watch out for meat and great and threat (They rhyme with suite and straight and debt).
A moth is not a moth in mother, Nor both in bother, broth in brother,
And here is not a match for there Nor dear and fear for bear and pear,
And then there's dose and rose and lose - Just look them up - and goose and choose,
And cork and work and card and ward, And font and front and word and sword,
And do and go and thwart and cart - Come, come, I've hardly made a start!
A dreadful language? Man alive! I'd mastered it when I was five!
I'm sure that was nice and easy for you.
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This is goodbye for now, from me, Chris from England.
Take care.
I will see you next time.