Ask students the following questions:
- Take a look at the following lines in the song:
- “Been climbin up here for a while.”
- “Just been trynna change somehow.”
- “Are you gon’ stay or let it go?”
- What do you notice about the words: climbin, trynna, gon’?
- What are these words originally?
In English, we often delete the sound at the end of words and combine the sound with the beginning of the next word.
Listen to the audio for these three lines:
How are these words pronounced?
Listen again and practice the pronunciation.
- “climbin’ up”
- “trynna change”
- “gon’ stay”