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Ordering water in New York goes strangely wrong — find out how Americans soften and swallow the T, and how to copy it.
Write the whole sentence you hear.
Names in this sentence:New York
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The structures this recording uses most, with the exact words you will hear:
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| Spoken sentence framesIntermediateThe thing is…, What I mean is…, It's worth -ing — set phrases that frame a sentence |
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| Phrasal verbsIntermediategive up, find out, end up, come up with — a verb + particle with its own meaning |
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| Question word + to-infinitiveBeginnerhow to…, what to…, where to… — a question word followed by to |
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| For / since / agoBeginnerfor + a period, since + a starting point, a time + ago — how long, from when, how long before now |
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| Imperatives: Let's / Don'tBeginnerLet's + verb, Don't + verb — suggesting or telling someone what to do |
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| Questions with do / does / didBeginnerdo/does/did + subject + verb — asking a question in the simple tenses |
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| Verb + prepositionIntermediatedepend on, listen to, wait for, deal with — verbs with a fixed preposition |
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