hello and good morning from London my
name is Anna you are watching English
like a native and today is our 10 minute
pronunciation practice the first of the
week so who do I have here with me I
have celeb serene ardor Mohammad Holland
dr. happy Zaheer
I have some of my patrons here as well
it's lovely to see you all I hope that
you are ready to practice your English
pronunciation so this week I thought
that I would start to concentrate solely
on the long vowels so this week is all
about the long vowels so there are 5
long vowels to look at that's one for
every day of the week so I hope you will
stay with me this week every single day
to practice your long vowels because
there's a couple of these valves
particularly that I'm constantly
correcting in my students so I know that
long vowels are a particular problem for
many of you if English is not your it's
not your native language so today we're
starting on one particular problem sound
and that is the vowel
you'll notice that I'm now working with
the Pages document rather than my
whiteboard I think it's time that I hung
up my whiteboard so it's I resigned it
it's gone no more whiteboard no more
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started shall we so the vowel uh the way
I explained this to my students is
like a letterbox I always feel that we
don't have a big wide space and we don't
have a very closed off space but the
sound comes out like this uh you see how
my mouth is like a letterbox uh uh uh we
don't want a weird odd ah has to be like
a letterbox and the word you might find
this particular sound are her her making
sure that we don't constrict this H
especially if your native language is
perhaps a Russian maybe you're from
Ukraine and Bulgarian these languages in
your language you tend to constrict the
H so make sure you don't do that it's
Spanish as well if you speak Spanish be
careful not to constrict it and don't
tap the are we don't hurt her we don't
want this sound it's just an H and the
vowel ha ha ha
and then we have the word were were
again we ignore this are we just have
the W and the vowel sound wah wah not
web web but were also be careful that W
is not a V we don't avert verb which I
hear sometimes so wah wah well y-you
okay and then we have the word work work
many of us talk about work quite often
and so it's important we can correctly
pronounce it we have the W the vowel and
the final Joseph K sound work work work
work not what what is what I hear a lot
of this all but it's a less
box work work I work hard good or we
have 75 people here good morning
I hope it's not too late to where you
are not too early I prefer to do these
sessions early in the morning earlier in
the morning because then I can get ready
do the broadcast and then do some
editing and carry on with the day but do
let me know if this time is not
convenient for you and I do try and
adjust it throughout the week all right
so let's try a sentence shall we so I
want you to repeat after me her search
for work was tedious her search for work
was tedious her search for work was
tedious and let's just look at the mouth
here her search for work was tedious
notice how I say for as fur and was as
was so we've replaced the vowel with a
schwa sound which is very common in
natural speech her search for work her
search for work was tedious as search
for work was tedious good let's try the
next sentence surely that's a name and
lady's name surely was hmm
teacher you've made a typo there we go
Shirley was a merciless nurse Shirley
was a merciless nurse sure mercy and
nurse is where this vowel sound appears
Shirley was a muscle Asst nurse oh dear
bad Shelly bad Shirley all right in
career is 6:00 p.m.
also it's a good time for you actually I
think um greetings in Brazil what is my
if you don't have mercy then you are
merciless so someone who has mercy is
someone who is forgiving but I guess if
you're merciless then you're not a
forgiving person you are harsh you are I
don't know a good word to describe it's
a good synonym but to be merciless is to
be without mercy it means she does not
show any mercy yes good good ask them
thank you very much for jumping in there
all right let's carry on and Ahmed hello
welcome all cruel yes I guess cruel
would be a good a good alternative to
merciless okay so the next sentence
repeat after me
but had a thirst for knowledge but had a
thirst for knowledge Bert is a name a
man's name in the UK Bert is short for
Robert Bert had a thirst for knowledge
notice that this K is silent so we don't
say canalla ch we say knowledge so Bert
had a thirst for knowledge let's see
that but had a thirst th thirst for
knowledge
notice the four has become fur that's
the more natural way to pronounce it in
a sentence but have a thirst for
knowledge do you have a thirst for
knowledge yes you do that's why you're
here Bert have a thirst for knowledge
alright let's try the next one
it was thirsty work on Thursdays
it was thirsty this is where we have the
earth it was thirsty work on Thursday so
we have three examples of the sound here
it was thirsty work on Thursday let's
see that it was thirsty work on Thursday
this is with an S on the end it
a thirsty work on Thursdays good alright
let's try the next sentence why weren't
you at the concert why weren't you at
the concert
why weren't that's the eat that's the
vowel sound why weren't you at the
concert and there it is again why
weren't you at the concert
why weren't you at the concert I was too
busy washing my hair okay and then the
last one we were working with her we
were working with her we were may you
have it one working two with her we were
working with her kids so let's have
those sentences again her were work her
search for work was tedious Shirley was
a mercilessness but had a thirst for
knowledge
it was thirsty work on Thursdays why
weren't you at the concert we were
working with her and then I've written
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exceeded the ten minute practice by one
minute but I do hope that you found that
helpful so don't forget all this week I
am doing long vowel sounds so this week
we day we've done a tomorrow again
we'll be covering a long bowel every day
of the week will be a long bell and then
hopefully we'll be able to revise them
at the weekend so yes I'll be going live
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isn't it
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you here is general communication so it
doesn't matter if you're learning
American English or British English
they're very very similar anyway but
what we aim to do here is improve your
understanding improve your pronunciation
and improve your general English alright
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