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Idiom of the Day!

Activity One
Pronunciation Tip
Activity 2
Activity One

Have you ever been deceived into buying something (a holiday package, a beauty product, a digital thing, …) or into thinking that someone or something was what they really were not? In other words, have you ever been led up the garden path?

Pronunciation Tip

Agma /ŋ/

This is an important nasal sound. it is a /n/ that goes through your nose an in “pink”. But the thing that actually makes it different is that in when we get an “ng”, the g is usually lost at the end of the word in standard English:

swimming /swi-miŋ/

But what about:

sing.er /ˈsiŋ-ər/
ring·er /ˈriŋ-ər/s

fin·ger |  ˈfiŋ-gər

 

In fact, there are parts of England where this word-final postnasal g is retained: around Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, also in much of Kent, south-east of London, and in New York City in the US. The map shows these areas of England.

Activity 2

1. What is the dumbest way you’ve been injured?

2. What are some things that sound like compliments but are actually insults?

3. Would you rather be able to see 10 years into your own future or 10 years into the future of anyone but yourself?

4. Would you rather know the uncomfortable truth of the world or believe a comforting lie?