Exercise 1: Listen to what Callum did last Sunday. In particular listen to how he pronounces the –ed endings of his regular past simple verbs. Which group does each verb fall into - / t /, / d / or / ɪd / ?
Sunday (1) turned into a very long day. My mum was coming back from holiday so I went to the airport to pick her up.
Unfortunately her flight was (2) delayed for a couple hours so I had to hang around at the airport. I went to the bookshop and (3) browsed around for a while, (4) flicked through some magazines and bought a paper to read while I (5) waited.
She finally (6) arrived at about 5 o'clock and (7) wanted to go straight home because she was so tired. So we (8) jumped in the car and I (9) dropped her off at her place then (10) headed to my flat in south London but when I (11) tried to find my house keys, they weren't in my pocket.
I (12) realised with horror that I must have left them in the airport bookshop when I was paying for my paper. So I had to go all the way back to the airport but luckily someone had handed in my keys and I was able to collect them and come home again. It was a very, very long day.
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Pronunciation: 'ed' endings - Answers
Exercise 1: Listen to what Callum did last Sunday. In particular listen to how he pronounces the –ed endings of his regular past simple verbs. Which group does each verb fall into - / t /, / d / or / ɪd / ?
Sunday (1) turned into a very long day. My mum was coming back from holiday so I went to the airport to pick her up.
Unfortunately her flight was (2) delayed for a couple hours so I had to hang around at the airport. I went to the bookshop and (3) browsed around for a while, (4) flicked through some magazines and bought a paper to read while I (5) waited.
She finally (6) arrived at about 5 o'clock and (7) wanted to go straight home because she was so tired. So we (8) jumped in the car and I (9) dropped her off at her place. Then (10) headed to my flat in south London but when I (11) tried to find my house keys, they weren't in my pocket.
I (12) realised with horror that I must have left them in the airport bookshop when I was paying for my paper. So I had to go all the way back to the airport but luckily someone had handed in my keys and I was able to collect them and come home again. It was a very, very long day.
