Can You Pronounce... IT'S DON'T HADN'T YOU'VE AIN'T AREN'T ?
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Published 2022-04-26
Contractions are shortened forms of English words, such as:
☑️ don’t
☑️ it’s
☑️ aren’t
☑️ they’ve
☑️ ain’t
☑️ hasn’t
They are extremely common in spoken English, and common in informal written English too. 📝 Learning to hear and use English contractions is one of the best ways to improve your listening skills and sound more natural when you speak in English!
So that is what we are going to do today!
Don’t miss the BONUS SPEAKING PRACTICE!! 🤩
I’ve included some conversation practice at the end of this lesson - so you can speak with me! We’ll practise using these contractions fluently, in a useful, everyday conversation between friends. 👯
Practise speaking fluently with me!
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0:00 Introduction
01:00 What’s a contraction?
02:15 DON’T
04:10 DOESN’T
05:21 DIDN’T
06:21 BE contractions with AM, IS, ARE
12:04 BE contractions with WAS, WERE
13:36 HAVE & HAS
17:13 HAVEN’T & HASN’T
19:40 HAD & HADN’T
20:34 Speaking Practice! Speak With Me
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Read the full transcript of this lesson on my blog here:
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All Comments (21)
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Watch through to the end for BONUS SPEAKING PRACTICE with me!! 🤩 I’ve included some conversation practice at the end of this lesson so you can practise using these contractions fluently, in a useful, everyday conversation between friends. 👯♀️ (Let me know ⬇️ if you enjoy practising like this and I'll make some more speaking lessons for you to practise with!)
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So nice to see you again on your YouTube channel. Thank you so much for this new lesson about contractions which I be found it very useful for communicating fluently with English speaker and particularly natives. You usually make your famous English easier to all kinds of English learners .
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Hi Teacher Emma! Thank you a lot for the lessons! It's so uncomplicated! Finally, I could understand some sounds and how to pronounce them.
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I love the way you teach this! I also appreciate seeing the differences explained between British & American (haven't etc). Thank you! I'll have my students watch this 👍
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Thanks for another great and useful lesson. I will be great if you continue this way with more usual contractions. Thanks again for your great job with us!!
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Hi Emma, I hope you're doing good. This is a beneficial and essential lesson for non-native speakers. I love how you explained it and helped me improve my listening and speaking skills in English. I am looking forward to more of this. Thank you so much.
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Thanks for another useful lesson.These lessons are really helping me in learning speaking English.
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WOW! That's awesome! I always wanted to improve my pronunciation on these contractions. This video helped me a lot. And the way it's structured, it helped me to practice the contractions. Thanks a lot Emma. You are a rock star!
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sometime i'm basically these sounds is hit or miss so that i seeking u 're lesson is'nt over my head so much thanks. u're outstanding ethics
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Hi Emma! Thank you for this lesson! It's a great collection of the most frequently used contractions. I'll save it to my playlist
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Thanks! This is really useful since contractions are challenging to teach. I will share it with my students.
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It is defenetly a great lesson to practice and apply it on daily basis . THANKS EMMA . U R GREAT!!
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You are an amazing teacher, I'dreally wait for more videos lessons on contraction.
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This teacher is great. Teach very well. Congratulations! I'm learning too with her class.
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Thank you so much, Madam for teaching contraction of words. I was searching for such teaching from you,Miss.
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Hello Emma, I don't know whether you made a video about it already, but a video where you analize can vs. can't would be very interesting. Of course it's not too hard to tell them apart when pronounced by an Australian, but for us non native speakers it gets pretty confusing when pronounced by speakers from the US or Canada. Thanks and keep up the excellent work.
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It was an impeccable video! Especially this dialog at the end of the video, that was awesome! Thank you so much for this lesson and have a great day😊
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Emma, I'm from Brazil and I'm starting to study English, starting from the basics and I'm loving your videos, they're helping me a lot. thankful.
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Hii Emma. I hope you're doing great. Your this lesson was really very important and helpful for me .👌 Even I have improved some of the contractions which seemed difficult to me Thank you
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Super useful lesson, Emma. All this time I've been pronouncing /aren't/ and /weren't/ in the wrong way.
