The to target sounds in this lecture are // as in 'girl' and // as in short. So
these two vowel sounds are both long
vowel sounds. They're both long. Listen to
the first sound // // It's quite long as you can hear. Now notice the shape of the
mouth. The first one // the mouth is quite relaxed.
It's not far open, it's not wide, it's not
rounded, it's relaxed. // as in girl girl.
However the second sound // Notice the
shape of my mouth. Can you see? What shape is it?
// as in shorts // The mouth and the
lips are rounded. This is very important
for producing this sound, the second
sound // Look at the shape of my
mouth again for both sounds. // girl and // shorts. Very important to produce
the right shape for making the sounds.
Now let's look at the target sound
practice. Let me point something out
before we start this.// and // very
often produce sounds for the 'r' letter in English. For example
short S-H-O-R-T. Again, we looked at the
letter 'r' in a previous lecture and in
some cases in British English
the 'r' is not pronounced. These two vowel
sounds replace the 'r' sound in many many words. The first vowel sound // girl. The 'r'
in girl is not pronounced. In the second
vowel sound // shorts. The 'r' in shorts is
not pronounced either. Again, this is
British English. In American English, the
'r' is pronounced in these cases but in
British English we simply use a long
vowel sound instead of pronouncing the 'r'. When you look at this word list
which is here right now, you will notice
many many 'r' letters in the words and
these are unpronounced. They're not
pronounced. Instead we use this long
vowel sound. So listen and repeat after
me. Turn. Work. Burned. Heard. Return. Purple.
Thirsty. World. Well done. Again, make
sure you look at the spelling. This is
key. Lots of those spellings contained
the 'r' sound but in all the cases the 'r'
is unpronounced because the 'r' comes
before a consonant, a consonant
sound or it comes at the end of a word like 'fur' F-U-R fur. So start to notice
these patterns between the relationship
of spelling
and sound. Now let's look at the second
target sound. The sound is // Remember
the shape of the mouth, the lips are very
very rounded// And it's a long sound. So
let's start. Look at the words and repeat
after me. Walk. For. Paw. Ball. Sport.
Daughter. Morning. Reporter. Water. Well done.
Did you notice the spellings in that
word list? The spellings were actually
not very regular. There are many many
kinds of spellings representing the
sound // for example walk W-A-L-K and
four F-O-U-R
Remember the 'r' at the end in English,
in British English, is unpronounced.
Another spelling P-A-W paw. For this
particular sound there are many many
different spellings. There's no real
pattern. Sometimes, very often we have 'or'
for example F-O-R for or morning M-O-R-N-I-N-G but apart from this rule there are many
many different spellings for this sound. So just be aware of that. Now let's look
at the minimal pairs for these two
sounds. // is on the left and // is on the
right. Listen to each pair and repeat. Shirts,
shorts. Fur, four. Turn, torn. Burn, born. Hard, hoard. Working, walking. Well done.
Excellent. I hope the sounds now are much clearer for you. Remember the first one //
the mouth is relaxed, the second one //
the mouth is rounded. Let's look at the
target sounds in use now. The first
sentence we're focusing on the // sound.
Listen and repeat. The girl is working
very early tomorrow. And sentence two. My
four-year-old daughter Laura is
talkative. And the third sentence with a
mix of the two sounds. At four o'clock,
let's go for a walk
to see the early birds eating the worms.
Well done, fantastic. Remember, as always, download the resources.
I'll see you in the next lecture.