Confusing Dictation

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Confusing Dictation

spinney

Confusing Dictation

Hi there everybody!

I have been doing my confusing messages over the telephone exercise to drive home the connected speech idea to my students, and also to show them that we native speakers often misunderstand each other.

My favourite confusing messages are:

There are sixty sick students.

The cattle eat it.

Please bring more ice.

This guy is blue.

Mice eat in the dining room, and so on.

I was thinking of doing some dictations next week about company history and general business English using similar confusing sentences in a business context. Can any of you come up with something?

I am suffering from a severe lack of imagination this morning. That final glass of rioja was probably not a good idea.

19 Mar 2021

Jayho

Hi spinney

I can�t think of anything at the moment for a business context.

However, here is a link to jokes that you might find useful. http://eslcarissa.blogspot.com/2013/08/catenation-with-jokes.html

Cheers

Jayho

22 Mar 2021

spinney

Hi Jayho!

Actually, some of those are pretty useful.

Thanks a lot!

24 Mar 2021