Kate’s Bite Size English Podcast: Fluency Practice: Tuesdays with Morrie, First Tuesday
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Fluency Practice: Tuesdays with Morrie | Linking & Intonation
In this lesson, we focus on two key elements of natural English fluency: linking (how sounds connect) and intonation (stress and rhythm).
Using a meaningful passage from Tuesdays with Morrie, you’ll learn exactly where linking happens and how to apply it to real spoken English.
What You’ll Learn:
• How consonant-vowel linking works in natural speech
• Sentence stress and intonation patterns
• How to shadow practice for fluency (not just pronunciation)
Full Text:
“We’re Tuesday people,” Morrie said.
Tuesday people, I repeated.
Morrie smiled. “Mitch, you asked about caring for people I don’t even know. But can I tell you the thing I’m learning most with this disease?”
What’s that?
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.” His voice dropped to a whisper. “Let it come in. We think we don’t deserve love. We think if we let it in we’ll become too soft. But a wise man named Levine said it right. He said, ‘Love is the only rational act.’”
He repeated it carefully, pausing for effect. “Love is the only rational act.”
TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 – Intro
0:10 – How This Works
0:34 – Listen: Full Passage Read
1:31 – Linking Rules & Examples
2:16 – Shadowing Practice (Linking)
2:43 – Intonation Practice
2:58 – Shadowing Practice (Linking + Intonation)
3:36 – Access Full Text
3:52 – Next Steps & Outro
Want more? 💙
If you’d like me to continue this series for the next 12 Tuesdays through Tuesdays with Morrie, drop a comment and type “Tuesdays” below!
Leave a comment and share your thoughts: https://open.firstory.me/user/cmpbg2k5204et01x7965sh8jp/comments
Fluency Practice: Tuesdays with Morrie | Linking & Intonation
In this lesson, we focus on two key elements of natural English fluency: linking (how sounds connect) and intonation (stress and rhythm).
Using a meaningful passage from Tuesdays with Morrie, you’ll learn exactly where linking happens and how to apply it to real spoken English.
What You’ll Learn:
• How consonant-vowel linking works in natural speech
• Sentence stress and intonation patterns
• How to shadow practice for fluency (not just pronunciation)
Full Text:
“We’re Tuesday people,” Morrie said.
Tuesday people, I repeated.
Morrie smiled. “Mitch, you asked about caring for people I don’t even know. But can I tell you the thing I’m learning most with this disease?”
What’s that?
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.” His voice dropped to a whisper. “Let it come in. We think we don’t deserve love. We think if we let it in we’ll become too soft. But a wise man named Levine said it right. He said, ‘Love is the only rational act.’”
He repeated it carefully, pausing for effect. “Love is the only rational act.”
TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 – Intro
0:10 – How This Works
0:34 – Listen: Full Passage Read
1:31 – Linking Rules & Examples
2:16 – Shadowing Practice (Linking)
2:43 – Intonation Practice
2:58 – Shadowing Practice (Linking + Intonation)
3:36 – Access Full Text
3:52 – Next Steps & Outro
Want more? 💙
If you’d like me to continue this series for the next 12 Tuesdays through Tuesdays with Morrie, drop a comment and type “Tuesdays” below!
Leave a comment and share your thoughts: https://open.firstory.me/user/cmpbg2k5204et01x7965sh8jp/comments