Here are the next pair of consonant
sounds we're targeting: // as in 'measure'
and // as in 'sheep'. So we have two
sounds here. The first sound // is
not a very very common sound in English
but it's good to cover it anyway. It's a
voiced sound. So touch your throat again
and produce the sound // you can feel the
vibration. Notice the shape of the lips // //. The lips are protruding. Not
necessarily rounded but protruding // //
And you're making // you're making the
vibration with your voice and you're
producing air out of your mouth //. The
tongue is the tip of the tongue, which
means the end of the tongue, is slightly
up.
This is what's producing the sound. If
you try again notice where your tongue
is, notice the shape of your lips as
well.
// The tip of the tongue should be
slightly up. Now the second sound // //
is exactly the same except it's unvoiced. We've seen this many times before
with other sounds. This is the same. The same shape of the lips, protruding
// the tip of the tongue comes up
slightly and you push air out of the
mouth but with the second sound //
it's unvoiced. And it's just like
saying, "Shh. Be quiet." I don't know if you
have this expression in your language
but in English when we want people to be
quiet we say, "Shh." It's exactly the same
sound. So those are the two sounds
and as I said the first sound // the voiced sound, is not as common as the second
sound //. The second sound is much more common. Anyway, nevertheless, let's go to
the target sound practice. Look at the
words, notice the spelling as always and
repeat each one after me focusing on the
shape of the lips, where the tongue is
and make sure you use your voice for
this one. Genre. Unusual. Television. Casual.
Asia.
Treasure. Decision. Massage. Measure. That's great. Now the second sound
remember is the same except it's
unvoiced. So all the mouth position, the
tongue position is exactly the same
except don't use your voice //
Just push the air out of your mouth. // as in sheep. Now let's look at the
target sound practice list. Notice the
spellings as always. Very often the
spelling is 'sh' but sometimes it's 'ch' as
you can see. Listen and repeat. Ship.
Show. Shoes.
Finished. Washing.
Machine. Wish. English. Champagne. OK, I hope that's made it clearer for you now,
the difference between // and //. Now the comparison pairs. This time we're
not doing minimal pairs. The reason is
because, as I mentioned at the start of
the lesson, the // sound is not so common, so it's very difficult to find minimal
pairs that match with //. So in this section we're not doing
minimal pairs, we're doing comparison
pairs. This just means the words are
not the same but similar. But we're
still contrasting the different sounds.
I'm still going to show you the
difference between // and // in a word.
The words have similar sounds but not
the same like minimal pairs. It's
exactly the same process. On the left we
have the // sounds and on the right we have
the // sounds. Repeat each of the
pairs after me and notice the difference
between the sounds. Genre, sherry.
Beige, bash. Casual, cash. Visual, fish.
Asia, ash. Television, tissue. OK, so as I
said they're not minimal pairs but both
sets of words contain the target sound. That's what I want you to focus on.
Now let's move on to the last section of
this lecture, the target sounds in use.
The first sentence has some examples of
//. So repeat after me.
Let's measure this beige television. Sentence two we're focusing on //
the unvoiced sound. Michelle
wants shampoo, sugar and champagne.
And the last one is a mix of the two
sounds. Repeat after me.
Sharon needs to measure her feet to buy
some casual shoes for the show.
So there we have it, those two
sounds are done. Well done. If you don't
have those particular sounds in your
language, keep practicing, keep making the
sounds. Focus on the shape of your mouth and produce the sound. What's easy is if
you have one of these sounds in your
language, for example //
then simply just keep the same shape and
use your voice to produce //
This is an easy way to produce some
sounds which might not be in your
language but are very similar. So try
that and I'll see you in the next video.