Repeat Real Questions: 2 New Movie & TV Listening Games

Students can know every word in a question and still miss it. In fast speech the question word, the auxiliary, and the pronoun run together, and "What did you say?" comes out as "Whaddja say?" This week on Cool English we are adding two new sets to Repeat Real Questions: short clips of everyday questions pulled from movies and TV, played the way people actually say them. Students hear the real thing, repeat it, then see how it is put together.

What's new

Two new sets, twelve clips each. Every tile holds one short, common question — "Did you eat yet?", say — taken from a real movie or TV scene, so students hear it in a natural voice and at natural speed. Set 1 is free to try, with no account needed.

How it works

Pick a numbered tile and play the clip. Students listen and repeat what they hear, with no text on screen yet. When they have had a go, reveal the question: first the full written form, "What did you say?", then the reduced form the way it actually sounds, "Whaddja say?", with audio so they can check their ear against it. A "See all questions" view shows every clip at once — useful for review, pair practice, or having students record themselves — and you can add teams and keep score when you want a game.

Why it works

The reduced forms are the point. Students learn questions one careful word at a time —

Where did you go? What are you doing? When are you coming back?

— and then cannot catch them when a real speaker links the words and drops the sounds:

Where'd ya go? What're you doing? When're ya comin' back?

Hearing the clip first, repeating it before any text appears, and only then seeing the written form trains the ear in the right order — sound first, spelling second. The gap between what they expected and what they heard is where the listening grows.

Worksheet included

Every set comes with a printable Connected Speech worksheet. Part 1 plays a question and asks students to write how it really sounds; Part 2 has them match the reduced form back to the full words. Use it in class after the game, or send it home as homework. Try it Free here: https://www.coolenglish.org/activities?category=listening&subcategory=da06d23b-6cb7-440b-8fb5-c00c4b33b385