Hello and welcome back.
Now it's time for more practice with our control vowels.
Let's just jump right in.
We're going to do a little practice with the r sound right now.
Here are some pirate jokes for you.
Which letter do pirates like best.
R dig at it.
If you've watched pirate movies before you know that a sound that pirates usually make is our are very
similar to our controlled Belal are.
All right.
Here's another joke for you.
Which instrument did the pirate play in his band.
Non-guitar.
All right.
And the last one.
What was the pirates favorite school subject.
R R Okay.
Let's get serious again.
Let's do another quick tongue twister to practice the long e Plus Earth Sound.
So it's going to be here.
We're this one's tricky near anywhere near our ear.
A nearly eerie ear near an ear near career a nearly eerie year.
All right.
This one's going to be a lot easier for you long.
A-plus or a for air.
Here we go.
Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear.
Fuzzy was he had no hair.
Fuzzy was he wasn't fuzzy.
Was he
so our Tuki sounds are in bear and hair.
All right.
Do you understand what it says.
Fuzzy means has a lot of hair like a hairy bear or a hairy cat a hairy dog.
So fuzzy hairy Fuzzy was he is just the name of a let's pretend to bear so fuzzy wuzzy was a bear.
Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair.
Fuzzy was he wasn't fuzzy.
Was he a right.
Because fuzzy Was he the bear had no hair.
He was bald.
So he really wasn't fuzzy anyhow.
You might want to try these out the pirate jokes and some of these tongue twisters and things with your
kids your nieces nephews and other kids that are around you.
So have some fun with it.
Practice your English.
It's a great way to practice and have fun.
All right.
A little bit more practice here is a game.
This game is called Would You Rather.
Now I know the word Rather is going to be a little tricky for you because it has that th in it and the
teacher usually gives people problems because most languages don't have th.
So I'm going to give you just a very very quick little review of how to pronounce the th sound.
So the th you're going to have to have your tongue tip through your teeth like this.
OK.
Stick it out.
You need to feel the tongue between your teeth.
There are actually two th sounds in English.
One is voiced.
And one is voiceless.
Now to produce a voiced sound you need to turn on your voice and how you do that is you're going to
feel vibration here in your throat.
Mmm mmm.
It's very slight but you should be able to feel it lightly here.
Mmm mmm.
If you put it here.
So this rather has the.
Th that is voiced Kaisa Let's practice it together.
Ram ram for
you'll feel the vibration in your lips and also a little bit here in your throat.
So all of the questions here begin with.
Would you rather.
So rather is asking is giving you two options it says which one do you choose.
OK so that's what Rather means.
Which one do you choose.
Would you rather own your own boat.
Or your own plane so I repeat that with me note is the rather has an earth and at the end and noticed
that there are two yours in this sentence both of them will actually be pronounced with an Earth Sound
year year and then there's the or in the middle the or can be pronounced completely with the long o
sound as in or.
Or you can also prance it up if you choose as a shorter variety like the schwa.
So let's try this again.
Go ahead.
Repeat after me.
Would you rather own your own boat.
Or your own plane.
Now go and answer the question.
I'd rather own my own boat because I love water and I love boats OK let's try another one.
Would you rather be able to fly or be invisible.
Personally I would rather be able to fly.
Would you rather live in the future or live in the past.
Would you rather live in space or under the sea
if you like this game.
You can make up some of your own or you can find some others on the Internet as well.
It's a fun game that you can play with your friends or with kids in your family.
Now let's test your ear to see if you can clearly distinguish one our control valve from another.
Now listen as I read the following list of American names for each name contains an Earth sound.
Or in our control vowel.
Now your job is to decide which sound you're hearing.
Don't look at the letters.
Listen for the sound that you hear.
Make sure you have the page in your workbook open that has this activity on it because you need to write
the word in the proper category based on the sound you're hearing.
Now here is what the chart looks like.
It starts with a name Karen so that air in there Karen.
Karen which are controlled vowel sound.
Are you hearing in the name Karen air air.
A ear you're hearing the one that sounds like hair hair.
It's a long a plus or a year.
Err so right the name Karen in the air column in the chart.
Let's do the rest of them now.
Number two Victoria Vic Toria.
Now take a look at the underlined part.
The o r.
How does that sound.
Is that an r controlled vowel.
Is that an Earth Sound.
Write it in the correct column in the chart.
Number three Aria
Aria
number four.
Conner Connor
five Jerry
Jerry
six Laura Laura
seven Kiera Tirah
eight scarlet scarlet
nine.
Skyler
Penn Hunter
Hunter
11 Cheryl Cheryl
12.
Harold Harold All right if you need to rewind the video and keep listening to this until you're able
to classify each of these by its sound when you're finished.
Check your answers in the back of your workbook.
Stay tuned.
There's more in the next section.
We're going to talk about the R sound when it begins a word.
Thanks for watching.