Hello.
Now we're going to take the earth sound that we learned in the prior listen and add to that there are
several other sounds that are created by combining a vowel sound with the earth.
These are referred to as are controlled or are colored vowels.
Before we start working with our controlled vowels let's review that sound.
I'm going to give you a little quiz.
Tell me everything you know about her.
Where is the tongue.
What does the tongue touch when producing this sound.
What do the lips look like.
How open is the mouth.
Name the most common spellings of the earth sound with examples.
Now I want you to pause the video and really think about this when you're ready you can start the video
again and you'll see the answers.
But please pause here take a minute or two and really try to answer these questions before looking at
the answers.
I want to make sure that you've mastered the sound before we move forward into the our controlled vowels.
Are you ready for the answers.
Here they are.
Your lips are somewhat rounded and your mouth is somewhat open like this.
The most important thing to remember about this sound is the tongue placement.
Your tongue should be in the middle of your mouth but it is not touching any part of your mouth it's
not touching your teeth or the roof of your mouth.
The position can vary however you can have it pull back and bunged up with the tongue down.
You can also have it pulled up in back with the tongue tip up.
It's really not important just as long as your tongue is not touching anything.
The most common spelling for this sound is.
Are but there are also a variety of other spellings that are possible.
You can find the spelling in ending's as in center.
You can also find the spelling in the primary stress syllable as in personal you can find an I are spelling
as in firm and oh our spelling can be found in primary stress still almost like the word worry.
Oh war can also be found in endings as in director you may occasionally see a are like an Earth or you
are like in First let's do a little warm up getting your mouth ready to pronounce the sound.
So here's another quick tongue twister that is full of earth sounds to warm up your mouth.
Lesser leather never weathered wetter weather better.
Can you do it.
Stop the video and try it out.
All right let's move on to those are control valves now.
So several vowel sounds can be added to the sound to create what we refer to as an r controlled or an
r colored vowel.
These sounds or a blend of the vowel sound plus the earth.
For example we have the long a plus or as in a year.
Examples include hair and rare.
Notice that is a blend of A and earth.
A year a year.
Hair.
And rare.
The long E sound blended with Earth year in year as in here and clear long.
I I hear as in fire and tired long o o or as in 4 and more hours sound plus ur As in now or and flower
and we have a short o also blend in with the earth short o is actually spelled as an A in most words
are as in large and far with these are controlled vowels a slight extra syllable is added to what appears
to be a single syllable.
Let me show you what I mean.
The word higher looks like it's one syllable in writing but actually sort of sounds like two syllables.
It's not officially two syllables but it's close it.
When we slow it down a little bit it sounds like this.
Hi there.
When you say a little bit faster it's a little less noticeable.
Higher higher ear slowing down for the ear a little faster.
Ear sourer where this does not happen with.
They are however.
It just stays as one syllable star and hard are examples of words with R.
Let's take a break here so you can digest this new material.
Make sure to do the listen and repeat.
Practice assignments with the list of our control vowels until this is really cemented in your brain
will continue with more are controlled Velvel practice in the next video.
Thanks for watching.