pick_it_up
Link Consonants and Vowels
Notice how a final consonant links to the next vowel in connected speech, then use the link to understand and deliver practical travel phrases more fluently.
Your goal
By the end of this lesson, you can produce common phrases with smoother linking.
Progress focus: PRONLIST
Engduo Audio: Licensed voices prepared for this lesson. Audio never starts automatically. Use the transcript after the first listening attempt.
1. Look, listen, and notice
Use the visual and model audio to understand the situation, viewpoint, or communication problem before studying the language.
- final consonant
- next vowel
- one connected sound stream
- meaning-first delivery
Engduo Audio • Indian English
Transcript — open after listening
Please pick it up at eight and check in at the front desk.
Engduo Audio • British English
Transcript — open after listening
We need to find an option and send an update before the office closes.
How to run Stage 1
Confirm the observable outcome and connect it to one realistic learner need.
2. Build useful language
Choose the phrases that help you complete the task; do not memorise a full script.
check_in_at
turn_off
leave_at_eight
find_an_option
send_an_update
How to run Stage 2
Use the visual and first audio or text for meaning before explaining language.
3. Rehearse with support
Practise the decisions, evidence, listening, or language moves that make the final task successful.
- Mark only consonant-to-vowel boundaries.
- Backchain each phrase from the final stressed word.
- Compare careful word-by-word speech with a clear connected version.
How to run Stage 3
Select only the useful-language items needed for this learner and this task.
4. Complete the communication task
Exchange information, solve a problem, create a text, or reach a decision with a real outcome.
Listen to twelve practical phrases, mark the word boundaries you hear, then use six of them in a travel-help dialogue without pausing between every word.
How to run Stage 4
Run the supported rehearsal without reading every instruction aloud.
5. Perform, receive feedback, and retry
Complete the task with keywords only, receive focused feedback, and repeat the weakest part.
Deliver a 45-second update containing four consonant-to-vowel links, then repeat after feedback for intelligibility.
Retry: Repeat once with clearer meaning, stronger evidence, more accurate listening, or less support.
How to run Stage 5
Run the main task: Listen to twelve practical phrases, mark the word boundaries you hear, then use six of them in a travel-help dialogue without pausing between every word.
Exit check
Complete this without reading a model: Recognise and produce four final-consonant-to-initial-vowel links in meaningful phrases.
Success looks like: The learner keeps the words understandable while reducing unnecessary pauses at the target boundaries.
Evidence: speaking · Repeat the weakest part once after one meaning-focused and one language-focused correction at most.
PRON · Pronunciation
2: Remains intelligible with useful sounds, stress, rhythm or intonation.
1: Demonstrates the skill after one focused prompt, correction or self-repair.
0: Cannot yet demonstrate the skill clearly enough to complete the stated outcome.
LIST · Listening Comprehension
2: Understands and uses the required spoken evidence accurately.
1: Demonstrates the skill after one focused prompt, correction or self-repair.
0: Cannot yet demonstrate the skill clearly enough to complete the stated outcome.
Use these scores after the independent attempt. Record one recurring need in the Engduo app when lesson-result fields become available.
How to run Stage 6
Record focused evidence, give one meaning-focused and one language-focused correction at most, repeat the weakest part, and complete the exit check.
คำอธิบายภาษาไทย — เปิดเมื่อจำเป็นเท่านั้น
linking ไม่ใช่พูดเร็วหรือกลืนทุกคำ จุดฝึกคือพยัญชนะท้ายคำต่อกับสระต้นคำถัดไป เช่น pick_it_up โดยยังรักษาความหมายและคำเน้น
Teacher guide
30-minute must-do route
- Confirm the observable outcome and connect it to one realistic learner need.
- Use the visual and first audio or text for meaning before explaining language.
- Select only the useful-language items needed for this learner and this task.
- Run the supported rehearsal without reading every instruction aloud.
- Run the main task: Listen to twelve practical phrases, mark the word boundaries you hear, then use six of them in a travel-help dialogue without pausing between every word.
- Record focused evidence, give one meaning-focused and one language-focused correction at most, repeat the weakest part, and complete the exit check.
60-minute extension
- Remove the marks and identify links inside a new spoken update.
- Change the role, information, listener, or constraint so the learner transfers the skill rather than repeating the same answer.
- Compare the first and second performance and record one specific improvement.
Make it easier
Use four two-word phrases with visible linking marks.
Make it harder
Remove the marks and identify links inside a new spoken update.
Likely difficulty
The learner may insert a pause at every written space or over-connect across punctuation.
Correction priority
Prioritise the target boundary and message clarity; do not demand accent imitation.
Thai support rule
Keep the Thai panel closed unless examples, visuals, replay, reformulation, and simpler English do not allow progress. Explain only the key distinction, then return to English.
Progress record
Score PRON, LIST from 0–2 and record one recurring need from: word-boundary-listening, fluency, intelligibility.
Retry
Give one meaning-focused correction and one language-focused correction at most, then ask for a second attempt with fewer visible prompts.
Continue your learning path
- Council of Europe — CEFR Companion Volume — Supports B1 communication through connected speech, descriptions of experiences, opinions with reasons, travel situations, goal-oriented co-operation, written interaction, and action-oriented outcomes.
- British Council TeachingEnglish — Connected speech — Supports awareness and contextualised practice of linking, weak forms, and other connected-speech features for listening and pronunciation.
- British Council TeachingEnglish — Linking — Supports recognising linked words and using backchaining to practise connected language.
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