Watch these two YouTube videos on the schwa family, The Nature of Reduced Vowels and Making and Teaching Reduced Vowels, and follow along with the activities.
You can download the slides below (together with some notes about them). This will enable you to do the practical activities off-line.
If you are interested in the phonetics behind open transition-type reduction, we've also added some further notes about this (called The nature of reduction in English).
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