hello and welcome to speak American English with Lyman Holton my name is
Lyman Holton in this lesson we're going to talk about
American English pronunciation are you ready let's begin
sound 42 of the 44 sounds that make up American English here we have one two
three four five six seven letter in letter combinations that create the same
sound in these words were using as examples so the letter e athlete it
sounds like a long e right e athlete how about e a in the word beach beach okay
now what is a beach well a beach is where the water meets the land and many
people like to go there to lay on the sandy beach go swimming sunbathe have a
picnic things like that the beach and an athlete is someone who plays a sport of
some sort right it might be that they're an athlete who plays baseball soccer
maybe they're a weightlifter athletes right physical sports then we have EE
the word e wheel a wheel the wheels on the bus go round and round right wheel
you have a wheel on your four wheels on your car two wheels and a bicycle
aye-aye-aye as in the word receipt receipt well if you go someplace to buy
something you go to a store you give the money to the cashier to pay for your
goods they're going to give you a little piece of paper that says that you paid
that's your receipt that if you need to bring something back
to the store because you bring it home and you find out you just don't like it
you have your receipt to prove that you paid for it so they can give your money
back when you give them the product back a receipt now here we have e I this is a
spelling rule it's I after E except after the letter C so here we have an
exception to spelling so we end up with this ie for receipt because there's a
seed here if the C wasn't there it would be ID
same sound ok here we have ey in the word valley e valley
what's a valley well you have a mountain over here you have a mountain over here
and many mountains behind them the low ground between the mountains is called
the valley frequently there'll be a river going through the valley
we have ie yield yield what is yield me yield means whoa stop
let someone go by first they have like if you're out driving you come through
an intersection maybe there's no stoplight no traffic light
no red stop sign but there might be a big yellow triangle yield sign at least
in the United States and what that means is that you can just drive through
carefully with caution if there are no cars coming in the cross
roads but if there is you must yield to that car you must let them go first
yield and we have wide in the word hazy hazy have you ever heard of the hazy
lazy days of summer well hazy means that it what you look at
isn't clear it's not foggy it's not that it's cloudy
it's hazy it's like there's so much moisture in
the air that or maybe it's a pollutant the air is polluted could be but hazy a
little difficult to see right it's not real clear hazy so that takes care of
these seven example words for E and that's the end of this lesson
thank you for watching this video and I look forward to seeing you at our next
lesson goodbye for now