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opportunity to address the conference today and thank you ladies and gentlemen
for your kind attention well it has been a great pleasure to
meet you sam and lynn yes we've enjoyed meeting you too victor yes it's been
great what a pity you have to go home well all good things must come to an end
but i'm sure we'll meet again yes i hope so
and good luck with your business i'm sure it will go well
and i wish you every success too well i think we should drink a toast to
the end of the conference and to ourselves
here's to us cheers
cheers we should keep in touch
yes have i given you my card oh no thanks very much here's mine
do you have a card lin yes thank you
i'll send you an email and if you're ever in singapore you must look me up we
certainly will and you have my number when you're next in sydney give me a
call we'll have a drink may i take these
well i'd better get going or miss my flight have a good flight home bon
voyage goodbye until next time goodbye
let's compare e and a together some of my students they find it's quite
tricky to distinguish between this cell now and now okay let's study
this is f
to make the air sound very easy uh like this your
your lips are slightly open like this and at the same time put your
jaw and your tongue down okay
some people spread their lips into both sides like this
no sorry it's not correct okay just put your jaw and your tongue down
so this is
wet wet
this one pan
pan this
lead let
some of my students they pronounce like wet or that
or what this is
open
sorry they are not correct okay put your jaw in your tongue down
very quick wet
wet pen
pen this one
let let
now one e
uh they are somehow the same because they
have the same vowel air right but this is the deep thong diphthong two
single vowels together so they come from e
and then end in e okay begin with e
and end with e
e okay now match them together
a a
okay somehow the same with a a very soft okay a
now again this one
just drawer and then
and this one a little bit open
and then close a
a understand so
a
a this is
weight weight
this one pain
pain this is a
a and then ain't so we have pain
pain this one
late late
now compare them together wet
wet weight
weight pain
pain pain
pain let
let light
light okay uh can you hear the differences between
them yes right now one more time quicker
wet wet
wait wait
wait wait
pen pen
pain pain
pain pain
let let
light light
let light now let's come to
e and air somehow the same too right
now just move your tongue in your jaw down
this one come from
remember air
again huh this is stop here
and this one quicker air air
so again e
air air can you see the difference
yes right now
we have very
very fairy
fairy fa
air air
shared shared
very very
fairy fairy
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where did you say it was this is it barca street we're looking
for number 57 what am i going to say to him it'll be
fine he's your brother so he's going to knock
i guess i will i'm so nervous don't worry we'll be here
hello hello i wonder uh
i'm sorry to bother you i'm looking for oh it's very hard to explain