ED Pronunciation

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In this self-paced presentation, you can read about the situations when we typically use ED as the final letters in a word and learn why it's so important to pronounce them correctly.

Before starting the pronunciation section of this course, we provide you with all the correct materials. This includes the slides used in our pronunciation presentations with notes lines and an interactive worksheet, which you can answer whilst watching the videos. We provide the correct answers to this interactive worksheet too and point you to our pronunciation forum, where you can ask any questions about the correct pronunciation of ED.

This grammar video explains what the ED pronunciation is and what the three main pronunciations of ED are.

Before learning the correct pronunciation of words ending in ED, it's important to understand what voiced and unvoiced sounds are. We explain this and provide you with a downloadable phonetic chart.

Learn how to correctly pronounce the sound /T/ and why it is important for words ending in ED. You can see close-ups of a native teacher saying this sound to ensure you are saying it correctly.

Learn how to correctly pronounce the sound /D/ and why it is important for words ending in ED. You can see close-ups of a native teacher saying this sound to ensure you are saying it correctly.

Learn how to correctly pronounce the combination sound /ID/ and why it is important for words ending in ED. You can see close-ups of a native teacher saying this sound to ensure you are saying it correctly.

This is a short booklet with numerous example words and sentences that you can read out loud. All of these sentences target the pronunciation of ED. You can listen to audios of our native teachers reading these sentences correctly too, so you can read alongside the teacher or repeat once you’ve heard the audio.

One of the topics that appears in this course is voiced and unvoiced sounds. You'll learn that the pronunciation of ED depends on being able to identify a sound as voiced or unvoiced. This is required not just for the pronunciation of ED, but for many other topics too, so this activity helps you get to grips with this pronunciation.

This interactive activity tests your implementation of ED pronunciation using our verb pyramids. You can easily download our pyramid worksheets with the correct answers and we provide you with access to our private Flipgrid community, where you can post your ED pronunciation as a video response on our video forum.

You'll learn that there are numerous words ending in ED in everyday texts. We point you towards our favourite online resources for reading as well as activities you can do with these texts to help you practise the pronunciation of ED.

Some related courses to this topic are the past simple tense and ED adjectives . We demonstrate how you can use grammar resources for these topics to maximise your learning of ED Pronunciation.

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