Well can you believe this is the last lesson of the course.
In this lesson we're going to keep working on those s endings.
Now let's find out when to use those other two pronunciations for the s endings.
Rule number two if a word ends in a voiceless sound.
Pronounce the s or e s ending as an S or S since S is also a voiceless sound.
Now if you remember voiceless sounds only have air passing through your mouth you should not hear or
feel any vibration from your throat.
Let's take a look at some of those words from the story that I told you in the last lesson.
It it ends in a T.
T is a voiceless sound.
So we're going to go ahead and add ass to it.
It's and coincidentally all of the voiceless ending words that added s to them in the story had t endings
so you can tell that T is a pretty common ending for words in English.
So each of these words we're just going to pronounce the says let's go through them quickly.
It is art arts insect insects scent scents.
Now let's take a look at some top 500 words that end in voiceless sounds.
First the f.
We have the word wife and staff.
Now there's a special note about the word wife.
Wife ends in an F.
So if you say something like my wife's car you're going to add a voiceless s to that.
But wife is one of those words that has an irregular plural the plural of wife is wives.
So if you're talking about two three or more wives you're actually going to change the F to A V The
V is a voiced sound so the ass ending will be pronounced as a Z.
In this case plural is wives but possessive is Whyte's.
Now staff is normal it's staff in the plural is staffs words and N.K. fake becomes thinks ask.
Asks words that in P keep heaps group groups words that indictee night becomes nights and result results
and that t as you know is very very common as you've seen from the story.
There are a whole lot of words that end in t and English.
So again make sure this is a high priority when you're studying.
All right.
We've come to our third and last rule for the pronunciation of ass s endings if the word ends in a sibilant
sound.
Pronounce the elsewhere as completely as is.
Adding that extra syllable to the word.
Now you're probably wondering what a sibilant is now a sibilant is a word that has a lot of noisy air
passing through the mouth.
They make hissing or buzzing sounds.
Think about snakes and bees like us.
You hear a lot of noisy air coming through the mouth.
When that happens we're going to go ahead and add that extra syllable to the end of the word sibilant
sounds include Gina
the spellings for these sounds may vary.
However I'll go ahead and show you on our next slide.
So some top five hundred words that have sibilant endings are ending in A C H.
Your spelling can b c h.
Or C H.
So teach will sound like teaches watch watches but just sound which is typically spelled D.G. or just
g as in page pages.
Challenge challenges the s.
Again the s which can be spelled a variety of ways.
Words often end in C E in English like voice and experience their plurals would be voices and experiences.
S can also be spelled as a double s at the end of words pass passes process process's S may also be
spelled as s e as in course courses sense senses.
Then we have sh sh is usually spelled with n sh.
There are a few exceptions to that rule but usually when it comes at the end of the word it's pretty
faithfully.
S8 spelling.
So finish would be finishes establish establishes Z as you know can be spelled a variety of ways it
can be spelled with a Z like size which would be sizes realize realize this can also be spelled with
an SC ending as in use which B uses and lose loses the spelling of v s s sound is almost always e s.
But that doesn't mean that every time you see an S it will be pronounced is with the extra syllable.
Sometimes it's just Xun or even.
So be careful with that.
No in this activity I'd like you to follow along with me as I read an excerpt from an interview with
a famous actor in your workbook.
I'd like you to make a note above each of the words that ends with s.
I want you to know whether it's an ending or it is.
Please use the correct IPA symbol to note that.
So please locate that in your workbook before I get started here.
Someone asked Drew Carey during a live online interview.
What's your very best life advice.
This was his response.
Learn how to set goals.
That's the key to everything.
That includes designing your own success.
You define what the goal is.
It's not somebody else's goal it's yours.
People think automatically Oh I don't want to make money or reach other people's goals.
It's not what your relatives want you to do or what society wants you to do.
All goal setting is is figuring out what you want to do with your life so whether you want to be a CEO
or the happiest hippie in the world.
Set goals.
I was totally lost in my life until I figured out how to set goals.
So from my perspective it's the most important thing you can do.
There are tons of goal setting books out there and you can get good advice from any of them.
Now again you'll probably want to hear that several times.
So just go ahead and rewind and listen again and again until you feel comfortable with your answers
and then check them in the back of the workbook.
I have one last note for you about ass endings so s endings are often proud.
Z as we talked about before but this happens especially in our most common words these words are very
high frequency words in English.
Take a look and notice that ending even though they're spelled with an S is was his as these though
is does always sometimes because Please go is is suppose exercise to cause lose raise rise phrase know
as Rose disease Chinese series.
Close you eyes.
Now you'll note there are a couple of words with little stars at the end.
You'll know they are pronounced Z when they are verbs.
They are pronounced as when they are nouns or adjectives.
Congratulations.
We've come to the end of the section and the end of the course.
Thank you so much for sticking through it until the very very end.
I really hope you learned a lot in this course but this is not the end.
You'll find several interesting and fun activities in your workbook to practice as endings.
Don't forget to do them all so you can really master these concepts and sounds.
Thanks for watching and I hope to see you in another course.