WARM-UP VIDEO FOR PRACTICE HEARING THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN CAN AND CAN'T.

Instructions. The sound /t/ is often missing from negative auxiliaries, such as don't and won't. As a result, it might be very difficult to hear the difference between can and can't. As you do this quiz, you will notice that can is often not stressed and sounds like 'kn', while can't is stressed and sounds like 'can'.

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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.

Today we're at Fox Village! It's a gorilla! It's like gorilla village. It's a village slash zoo for foxes that (1) …………..inside and play with more than 200 foxes for only 1,000 yen. Can I touch it? (2) ………….. a place like this reallyexists. It was even better than I thought it was going to be. How excited are you on a scale of 1 to 10? When you first enter, you'll be in an area with cages where there are newly born baby foxes who are being taken care of by their mamas. There's a fox hospital in this area, and if you want to, (3) ………….. a fox here! Once the babies separate from their mom they join in one of these big adolescent pens where (4) ………….. them running back and forth and playing with each other, or sleeping in the most adorable giant fox ball EVER. That is literally a pile of foxes. (5) ………….. how many there are there. And then, finally, they've graduated to the main fox village, which is an open area of more than 18,000 square feet filled with fox houses, They were all born and raised here, so that might explain some of it, but they were even more domesticated than I would have expected. (6) ………….. treats for them, which come in plastic bags, and as soon as they realize you have treats, they will follow you everywhere. Oh. He's like strangling me. They did this thing a lot where they open their mouths and squeal at each other, which we assumed was a show of dominance, but I'm not a fox scholar so (7) ………….. for sure. Which one won? You? You're so chubby. Oh, the lens cap... Awww. So be careful, and make sure they don't get a hold of anything (8) ………….. on. (9) ………….. about the noises they make, because it's so adorable it's killing me. What does the fox say? They're very quiet. They mostly seemed chubby and happy so it was a really fun place to visit. All in all I highly recommend this place. Thank you for watching, and I hope (10) ………….. visit fox village one day, too. Up until now I was like, I don't really care about foxes. But now I'm gonna walk out of here a changed man.

Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.

Today we're at Fox Village! It's a gorilla! It's like gorilla village. It's a village slash zoo for foxes that (1) (you can go) inside and play with more than 200 foxes for only 1,000 yen. Can I touch it? (2) (I can't even believe) a place like this reallyexists. It was even better than I thought it was going to be. How excited are you on a scale of 1 to 10? When you first enter, you'll be in an area with cages where there are newly born baby foxes who are being taken care of by their mamas. There's a fox hospital in this area, and if you want to, (3) (you can hold) a fox here! Once the babies separate from their mom they join in one of these big adolescent pens where (4) (you can watch) them running back and forth and playing with each other, or sleeping in the most adorable giant fox ball EVER. That is literally a pile of foxes. (5) (I can't even count) how many there are there. And then, finally, they've graduated to the main fox village, which is an open area of more than 18,000 square feet filled with fox houses, They were all born and raised here, so that might explain some of it, but they were even more domesticated than I would have expected. (6) (You can buy) treats for them, which come in plastic bags, and as soon as they realize you have treats, they will follow you everywhere. Oh. He's like strangling me. They did this thing a lot where they open their mouths and squeal at each other, which we assumed was a show of dominance, but I'm not a fox scholar so (7) (I can't say) for sure. Which one won? You? You're so chubby. Oh, the lens cap... Awww. So be careful, and make sure they don't get a hold of anything (8) (they can choke) on. (9) (And can we talk) about the noises they make, because it's so adorable it's killing me. What does the fox say? They're very quiet. They mostly seemed chubby and happy so it was a really fun place to visit. All in all I highly recommend this place. Thank you for watching, and I hope (10) (you guys can all) visit fox village one day, too. Up until now I was like, I don't really care about foxes. But now I'm gonna walk out of here a changed man.

Sources: 

Channel: Rachel and Jun. Fox Village in Zao Japan! 蔵王きつね村・kitsune mura: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92wtDKCtOiU&t=1s

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