Pronunciation 6. Elision in ‘-ed’ endings

In this lesson, your students will:

• Activate the use and pronunciation of past forms in speaking.
• Test themselves by spotting and trying to correct pronunciation mistakes in past tense verbs.
• Use guided discovery tasks with hints to explore the pronunciations rules.
• Sort and match verbs into -ed ending patterns and practice the endings through listening and repetition.
• Use interactive drills and games to solidify the rules.
• Do semi-free practice tasks to gain more automaticity.
• Notice how native speakers often drop the endings in consonant clusters.
• Compare “clear” vs. “connected” speech versions of past forms.
• Retell a text and speak about their own past activities with attention to -ed endings and natural elision.

This lesson contains up to 20 exercises that develop students’ ability to recognize and produce regular past tense -ed endings accurately and to raise awareness of elision in connected speech (dropping /t/ or /d/ in clusters), so that their pronunciation sounds clearer, smoother, and more natural in fast English.