Learn English Sounds Vowel Reduction Exercises
Learn English Sounds Vowel Reduction Exercises is a practice page for the schwa, on a site of pronunciation lessons and practice tools. Five exercises cover twelve common words with audio cards, full and reduced vowel pairs across word families, function words in sentences, a rhythm drill, and a self-test with answers. A ten-minute daily routine closes it.
100% Free (unlimited): Open to anyone with no account and no payment. The twelve word cards with their audio, the word-family and function-word tables, the drill, the self-test with its answers, the quiz and the daily routine all run on the page.
How It Helps Your Business English
Exercise 1 gives twelve words as audio cards, four of which lose a syllable altogether. Exercise 2 is a table of word families where the stress moves and the schwa moves with it. Exercise 3 pairs the strong and weak forms of to, of, was, that and from in ten sentences. Exercise 4 is a rhythm drill, and Exercise 5 a self-test with answers.
Work the word cards in threes: listen, say the weak syllable as short as you can, record and compare. In the rhythm drill, say only the stressed syllables first and keep those beats fixed while you fit the weak syllables in between them. Take the self-test before you read the answers, and use the ten-minute routine to spread the page across two weeks.
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