Remembering all those who fought

Hello everyone! Remembrance Day is here, marking the end of hostilities in WWI "at the eleventh hour of the elenveth day  of the eleventh month".

To celebrate peace, I bring you a video about the dogs that were recruited at Battersea and the roles they took up during the war.

This video illustrates some of the accents we've been studying, and this, together with the recent practice on spelling and pronunciation we've been doing, has inspired me to introduce a different modality of activity that focuses on the "bête noire" of pronunciation: weak syllables.

When you read automatic captions, the usual thing is for them to be a little inaccurate. Guess where those mistakes tend to occur... Yes, as it happens with spelling bees, most of the inaccuracies will appear in weak sounds.

So, here's this challenging activity:

1. Watch the video once without captions.
2. Watch the video with closed captions on (CC button) and spot the inaccuracies.
3. Correct the captions.

This is going to test your listening, vocabulary, spelling and pronunciation skills at the same time, and I hope it shows you how interrelated these skills actually are when we try to understand connected speech.

A difficult one done for you:

00:22 - CC: left tenant Colonel Richardson
should read:  Lieutenant Colonel Richardson (you can check the pronunciation of "lieutenant" on the widget on the right side bar to see why it was misspelt in the captions)

The rest are not so difficult, so... all yours! I expect a lot of activity in the comments until we get it all done! I'll keep an eye to help whenever it's needed.

Enjoy!