Coldplay- The Scientist (Improve Your Pronunciation Through Songs)

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Read the lyrics to the song and try to identify the pronunciation features present in the blue sounds/chunks of speech. You can download the exercise here: https://app.box.com/s/cavivylgr6n09taf0nd25zfjr73l2e3r Then listen to the song to check if your guesses were correct. Could you notice the way the singer utters those sounds?

Watch the video to check if your guesses were correct

[1] Come up to meet you

1 point

1. aspiration

2. weak forms

3. initial S + consonant

4a. coalescence (want you) /ʧ/

4b. coalescence (would you) /ʤ/

Clear selection

Come up to meet you [2]

1 point

1. aspiration

2. weak forms

3. initial S + consonant

4a. coalescence (want you) /ʧ/

4b. coalescence (would you) /ʤ/

Clear selection

[3] Tell you I'm sorry

1 point

1. aspiration

2. weak forms

3. initial S + consonant

4a. coalescence (want you) /ʧ/

4b. coalescence (would you) /ʤ/

Clear selection

I [4] had to find you

1 point

1. aspiration

2. weak forms

3. initial S + consonant

4a. coalescence (want you) /ʧ/

4b. coalescence (would you) /ʤ/

Clear selection

I had to find you [5]

1 point

1. aspiration

2. weak forms

3. initial S + consonant

4a. coalescence (want you) /ʧ/

4b. coalescence (would you) /ʤ/

Clear selection

[6] Tell you I need you

1 point

1. aspiration

2. weak forms

3. initial S + consonant

4a. coalescence (want you) /ʧ/

4b. coalescence (would you) /ʤ/

Clear selection

Tell you I need you [5]

1 point

1. aspiration

2. weak forms

3. initial S + consonant

4a. coalescence (want you) /ʧ/

4b. coalescence (would you) /ʤ/

Clear selection

[6] Tell you I set you apart

1 point

1. aspiration

2. weak forms

3. initial S + consonant

4a. coalescence (want you) /ʧ/

4b. coalescence (would you) /ʤ/

Clear selection

Tell you I set you [7] apart

1 point

1. aspiration

2. weak forms

3. initial S + consonant

4a. coalescence (want you) /ʧ/

4b. coalescence (would you) /ʤ/

Clear selection

[6] Tell me your secrets

1 point

1. aspiration

2. weak forms

3. initial S + consonant

4a. coalescence (want you) /ʧ/

4b. coalescence (would you) /ʤ/

Clear selection

And ask me your questions [8]

1 point

1. aspiration

2. weak forms

3. initial S + consonant

4a. coalescence (want you) /ʧ/

4b. coalescence (would you) /ʤ/

Clear selection

Oh let's go back to the [9] start

1 point

1. aspiration

2. weak forms

3. initial S + consonant

4a. coalescence (want you) /ʧ/

4b. coalescence (would you) /ʤ/

Clear selection

Oh let's go back to the [10] start

1 point

1. aspiration

2. weak forms

3. initial S + consonant

4a. coalescence (want you) /ʧ/

4b. coalescence (would you) /ʤ/

Clear selection

Running in circles, [11] coming up tails

1 point

1. aspiration

2. weak forms

3. initial S + consonant

4a. coalescence (want you) /ʧ/

4b. coalescence (would you) /ʤ/

Clear selection

Running in circles, coming up tails [12]

1 point

1. aspiration

2. weak forms

3. initial S + consonant

4a. coalescence (want you) /ʧ/

4b. coalescence (would you) /ʤ/

Clear selection

[13] Heads on a science apart

1 point

1. aspiration

2. weak forms

3. initial S + consonant

4a. coalescence (want you) /ʧ/

4b. coalescence (would you) /ʤ/

Clear selection

Heads on [14] a science apart

1 point

1. aspiration

2. weak forms

3. initial S + consonant

4a. coalescence (want you) /ʧ/

4b. coalescence (would you) /ʤ/

Clear selection

Heads on a science apart [15]

1 point

1. aspiration

2. weak forms

3. initial S + consonant

4a. coalescence (want you) /ʧ/

4b. coalescence (would you) /ʤ/

Clear selection

It's such [16] a shame for us to part

1 point

1. aspiration

2. weak forms

3. initial S + consonant

4a. coalescence (want you) /ʧ/

4b. coalescence (would you) /ʤ/

Clear selection

It's such a shame for us to part [15]

1 point

1. aspiration

2. weak forms

3. initial S + consonant

4a. coalescence (want you) /ʧ/

4b. coalescence (would you) /ʤ/

Clear selection

No one ever said it would be this [17] hard

1 point

1. aspiration

2. weak forms

3. initial S + consonant

4a. coalescence (want you) /ʧ/

4b. coalescence (would you) /ʤ/

Clear selection

Oh take me back to the [9] start

1 point

1. aspiration

2. weak forms

3. initial S + consonant

4a. coalescence (want you) /ʧ/

4b. coalescence (would you) /ʤ/

Clear selection

Oh take me back to the start [10]

1 point

1. aspiration

2. weak forms

3. initial S + consonant

4a. coalescence (want you) /ʧ/

4b. coalescence (would you) /ʤ/

Clear selection

[18] Pulling your [18] puzzles apart [15]

1 point

1. aspiration

2. weak forms

3. initial S + consonant

4a. coalescence (want you) /ʧ/

4b. coalescence (would you) /ʤ/

Clear selection

[19] Questions of science, science and progress

1 point

1. aspiration

2. weak forms

3. initial S + consonant

4a. coalescence (want you) /ʧ/

4b. coalescence (would you) /ʤ/

Clear selection

Do not [20] speak as loud as my heart

1 point

1. aspiration

2. weak forms

3. initial S + consonant

4a. coalescence (want you) /ʧ/

4b. coalescence (would you) /ʤ/

Clear selection

[21] Tell me you love me

1 point

1. aspiration

2. weak forms

3. initial S + consonant

4a. coalescence (want you) /ʧ/

4b. coalescence (would you) /ʤ/

Clear selection

[22] Come back and [23] haunt me

1 point

1. aspiration

2. weak forms

3. initial S + consonant

4a. coalescence (want you) /ʧ/

4b. coalescence (would you) /ʤ/

Clear selection

Oh and I rush to the [9] start

1 point

1. aspiration

2. weak forms

3. initial S + consonant

4a. coalescence (want you) /ʧ/

4b. coalescence (would you) /ʤ/

Clear selection

Oh and I rush to the start [10]

1 point

1. aspiration

2. weak forms

3. initial S + consonant

4a. coalescence (want you) /ʧ/

4b. coalescence (would you) /ʤ/

Clear selection

Running in circles, chasing our [12] tails

1 point

1. aspiration

2. weak forms

3. initial S + consonant

4a. coalescence (want you) /ʧ/

4b. coalescence (would you) /ʤ/

Clear selection

[24] Coming back as we are

1 point

1. aspiration

2. weak forms

3. initial S + consonant

4a. coalescence (want you) /ʧ/

4b. coalescence (would you) /ʤ/

Clear selection

Oh it's such a [16] shame for us to part

1 point

1. aspiration

2. weak forms

3. initial S + consonant

4a. coalescence (want you) /ʧ/

4b. coalescence (would you) /ʤ/

Clear selection

Oh it's such a shame for us to part [15]

1 point

1. aspiration

2. weak forms

3. initial S + consonant

4a. coalescence (want you) /ʧ/

4b. coalescence (would you) /ʤ/

Clear selection

No one ever said it would be so [17] hard

1 point

1. aspiration

2. weak forms

3. initial S + consonant

4a. coalescence (want you) /ʧ/

4b. coalescence (would you) /ʤ/

Clear selection

I'm going back to the [9] start

1 point

1. aspiration

2. weak forms

3. initial S + consonant

4a. coalescence (want you) /ʧ/

4b. coalescence (would you) /ʤ/

Clear selection

I'm going back to the start [10]

1 point

1. aspiration

2. weak forms

3. initial S + consonant

4a. coalescence (want you) /ʧ/

4b. coalescence (would you) /ʤ/

Clear selection

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