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Listen and notice how the speakers pause each sense group. Mark the pause with. after
1 Originally the Ivy League referred to the sports
teams from the universities which competed
against each other, especially in football
basketball and ice hock
2 But in the last 50 years, Ivy League schools have
accepted a wider range of students because
it wasn't possible to be both world-famous for
research and also top-class in sport
3 But I suppose worldwide, the two that would
be definitely known all over the world would
certainly be George Bush, who went to Yale
and John F Kennedy, President Kennedy, who
was at Harvard
4 Nash believes that hes been asked to work
by William Parcher for the US Department of
Defense on breaking Soviet codes
5 And so the story ends when he goes on to win
the Nobel Prize in Economics
Sense groups
When you hear people speaking English, they pause
after each sense group. It may not be a long pause, but
it's just enough to mark the end of one sense group
and the start of the next one. If you can pause after
sense groups, you'li sound more fluent
