Hello and welcome back to Easy English with James! Today we're going to have a
look at the letter 'e'. This is a special letter because it's the most common
letter in all of English and there are more ways to pronounce the letter e than
there are ways to pronounce any other letter in English, so if you want to know
exactly how to pronounce this letter and you want to master your pronunciation
stick with me as we learn all about the letter E!
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okay so the letter e it's a vowel letter the vowels in english are a e i o and u
the letter e is the second vowel letter in english after the letter a if you
want to learn more about the letter a check out my video up here okay the
letter e is a vowel letter that is actually the most common letter in all
of english so it's super important maybe the most important letter for you to
learn actually in english 13 or 14 percent
between 13 and 14 of all english writing
is just the letter e that means if you read a book or a newspaper
13 of the letters is just the letter e okay it's the
letter e is everywhere nearly every word in english contains a letter e okay it's
really really important so how many ways do you think there are to
pronounce this letter have a think and today we're going to go
through all of those different ways and i'll give you advice on your
pronunciation we'll talk about some vocabulary that you can use some really
long words some crazy words and hopefully by the end of this lesson
you'll know all of the different ways to pronounce this and we'll have a little
test at the end okay so let's start with number one
okay so number one nice and easy to start with
the letter e obviously can be pronounced
e this is how it is pronounced in the
alphabet a b c d e e
we make this sound watch closely e
e your lips widen a little bit and your tongue sort of hovers
e e
e sometimes people call this the long e but don't always use that because it
doesn't have to be very very long it can be e e e okay but the important thing is
that your mouth gets wide e e
e we find this in really common words it's
very important because it's found in super common words like he
or she or we
or me
and also the verb to be
okay practice with me he she
we me
and to be
to be okay if you want to practice that better
or faster try going through all of them he she we me
he she we me he she we me okay and you'll get that
sound really really natural really really natural okay we can also
pronounce the letter e as e in words where it is a stressed syllable
so take a look at the word female
female okay female the stressed syllable is the first part
of that word fee and you can see the letter e there
that's the stressed part e so often in many words in english when
the e is the stressed part we pronounce it e
take a look at evening
evening evening
okay and female and even secret
secret okay female
secret evening
in those words one syllable is stressed the syllable with the letter e at the
beginning is stressed so we pronounce it e be careful because there are many
exceptions to this rule but in many words when the e is stressed we
pronounce it e okay you'll also find this
pronunciation of the letter e in words like chinese or vietnamese or japanese
okay e-s-e any word with e-s-e that e-s-e is
pronounced ease ease okay this is because of something
called magic e
don't worry magic e we're going to look at at the end of today's lesson but for
now look at words like theme and you can also see they have e then a
consonant and then another e that final e is called magic e okay and that's one
of the reasons why we pronounce these e japanese
chinese okay vietnamese
and theme and scene
okay practice those words we also pronounce the letter e as e in
greek words that means words in english that come from the ancient greek
language okay words like hercules you know the really famous
strong man hercules hercules okay but also plurals of greek words so the
single word oasis if you change that to the plural which
means many of you just add es oases same with crisis becomes crises and
thesis becomes theses okay that es on the end of words here is always
pronounced ease ease because they're taken from greek
okay so practice hercules
hercules and
feces and
crises and oases also we often pronounce the letter e as
e in words where it appears next to an a so the letters e a together if you look
at words like jeans
genes or meat meet
meet or even teacher
teacher teacher teach okay and
reach that ea here together is pronounced as
the e e okay so practice with me
teacher teach
jeans a nice pair of jeans and
meat meat
okay this is the same when we have two letter
e's together e e in words like free everybody loves free stuff right free
and agree agree
and the animal b okay the buzzing b
b agree and
free so when you see words with two e's together it's normally pronounced long e
sound e agree
be and free sometimes when you see the letters e and
i together e and then i in words like protein protein
sealing sealing and
receipt receipt okay when you go to buy
something you will get a receipt the e before the i is sometimes not always be
careful because there are many exceptions sometimes e before i is also
pronounced e in english e the best way to learn this is to listen to each new
word okay ask a native speaker or look up on an online dictionary for the sound
of each word when you learn it so you know is this e i pronounced e or not
okay so protein ceiling
and receipt
receipt okay also we can turn it around instead
of the e before the i we can put the i before the e
and that combination of letters is also pronounced
e in words like peace
peace and
briefcase briefcase when you go to work you carry
a briefcase also in the word believe believe you'll see the final syllable
there leave is iev so ieve believe believe okay so
e before i can be pronounced sometimes e and also i before e can sometimes be
pronounced e2 okay believe peace and briefcase
finally there are some special words in english where e is at the end of the
word and it's pronounced e usually they're words that are borrowed from
other languages especially japanese so words like karate
karate or karaoke karaoke both of those end in e
but they're borrowed from another language so we put the e at the end as a
e e sound okay practice again karaoke
karaoke and karate karate
okay so let's try some practice sentences with this
pronunciation of the letter e she is free to believe there is a bee
on the ceiling she is free to believe there is a bee on
the ceiling practice with me she is free to believe there is a bee on
the ceiling your turn
okay she is free to believe there is a bee on the ceiling you'll see all of the
different spellings in that sentence and hopefully the more you practice that
sentence you'll be able to get a good feel for when we pronounce the letter e
as e okay you can also try this sentence we see chinese genes on the beach
we see chinese jeans on the beach okay practice with me we see chinese jeans on
the beach your turn
okay well done let's have a look at the next way that we can pronounce this
letter okay the next way that we can pronounce
the letter e in english is as an e e
watch closely my jaw goes down e e
you'll know this from words like egg okay
this one is really simple to remember the letter e is pronounced er very often
in words that end in the letter e and then a consonant so look at the word get
you've got the letter e and then a consonant
the word met or bet or set or even longer words like hotel
hotel they all have the letter e followed by a consonant at the end of a
word okay there are exceptions to this rule too of course in english but
a good rule to remember is that if you see the letter e followed by a consonant
and it's at the end of a word especially short words like bet met set and let
it's usually pronounced
practice with me hotel hotel
get get
set set
and met
met okay well done
you'll also see the letter e pronounced air in words where you see the letter e
followed by a consonant and then another vowel so look at the word exit
exit you've got the letter e then you've got a consonant x and then you've got
another vowel i okay exit look at the word never
or ever
or level okay all of these words have the
letter e followed by a consonant followed by another vowel sometimes it's
another e like in never or ever or level okay
when you see that often in english it's pronounced e e
never level okay ever well done
also you'll find this in words where the letter e is followed by th okay things
like weather as in whether it rains or not
okay and together together they both have the letter e
followed by t h together whether okay often in words
like that the letter e is pronounced e other exceptions where we also pronounce
the letter e as a are words like else else and
center okay both of these have that e pronunciation
also the letter e can be pronounced e in words with e a again remember before e a
was pronounced e well in english ea can also be pronounced e okay so e a
in words like dead
dead or bread
or breakfast okay in dead you can see the letter e
followed by the letter a again e a but this time it's not pronounced e this
time it's pronounced er there's a really good example of this with the word read
read in the present tense is i read a book but in the past it's
i read a book but the spelling is exactly the same i know english can be a
little bit crazy sometimes but i read in the present and i read in the past so ea
can be pronounced e or air
and in many many cases ea is pronounced e
try these words weather
weather head
head dead
and breakfast
breakfast practice with me weather weather
head head
dead dead
and breakfast
breakfast all have that e pronunciation try these practice sentences with the
letter e as a every hotel breakfast i have in bed
every hotel breakfast i have in bed okay lots of words with air with the letter e
pronounced air one more time every hotel breakfast i have in bed
okay let's look at the next one number two is get to the exit or else you'll be
dead get to the exit or else you'll be dead
okay get to the exit or else you'll be dead
number three is the bread gets wet in bad weather
the bread gets wet in bad weather try and say this one as fast as you can the
bread gets wet in bad weather the bread gets wet in bad weather and you'll get a
really good feel for that e e sound okay practice with me the
bread gets wet in bad weather okay the next way number three the third way that
we can pronounce the letter e in english is
uh
er okay it's a really relaxed sound we start with our mouth in the same
position that you make the schwa sound in english
but this time we make it a little bit longer make sure you're vibrating your
vocal chords uh uh imagine it's trying to continually push
that sound out of your mouth not uh but uh
okay
uh okay we pronounce the letter e as uh in
really common words like her
and were
and person okay you'll notice that e and r
together e and are in her or were or person or even
verb the e and the r together usually means that that is pronounced
so if you see a word with e-r like refer refer you see the e-r and you know it's
pronounced uh practice with me person
person verb
her and
were well done also in words where you see
the letters e a and r together you'll love this e a can be pronounced in so
many ways in english this time e a and r together is pronounced
uh so in words like
earth we all live on planet earth earth e-a-r here is pronounced
er er
so if e-a-r is pronounced uh then words like
learn learn
and early
early okay uh lee early also words like search
search okay e-a-r is often pronounced uh
practice with me earth
earth make sure you get that th sound at the end of the word earth
earth then search
search search
and then learn
learn and
early early
there are also some loan words from french that have really weird spellings
in english so words that are a little bit longer that you see ending in e
u r they're not common words in english
they're very rare but these are words that english has borrowed from french
words like saboteur
saboteur and you can see that t-e-u-r-tur
is pronounced tur with that er sound so eu here is pronounced uh
saboteur other words like this are connoisseur
connoisseur you can be a connoisseur of wine a connoisseur of wine and one of my
favorite words in english because it's really difficult to pronounce is
entrepreneur entrepreneur
okay on tr pro no entrepreneur okay what does entrepreneur mean
write that in the comments below if you know the answer what is an entrepreneur
okay but remember e-u-r on the end of those words is also pronounced er in
english uh
e equals uh practice this sentence with me to
practice that pronunciation of the letter e
her search of the earth for the perfect person
her search of the earth for the perfect person okay
her got that er search e-a-r earth ea again and perfect person
her search of the earth for the perfect person practice with me her search of
the earth for the perfect person your turn
okay number two the saboteur learned the verbs early
the saboteur learned the verbs early the saboteur
learned the verbs early okay practice that one as fast as you can the saboteur
learn the verbs early and you'll really get a feel for again the ea the eu and
also those er combinations that make us pronounce the letter e as uh uh okay
well done let's move on to the next way to pronounce the letter e
okay number four the fourth way we can pronounce the letter e in english is as
ear
this is a diphthong sound a diphthong vowel sound if you want to know all
about the diphthongs in english check out my video up here
the sound ear the vowel sound ear is a way that we
can pronounce the letter e and it's very common in english usually again when you
see e and a together okay in words like here and near and fear
now very quickly remember e a is a diphthong that means we slide
from one vowel sound into the other we start with e and we slide into
ear ear it's one vowel sound not two we don't say e
uh it's one sound that we slide that's why we call it a diphthong
ear practice these words near fear
year here
and really
really okay so it's very common again in words with e and a idea idea
really here
near fear okay with ea it's really common but you can also see the letter e
pronounced ear in words with two e's like
beer or
korea or engineer engineer
also when you say cheers to someone cheers this is especially true in the
british english accent where we say cheers
cheers okay and engineer engineer
but make sure that you're getting that diphthong slide engineer
engineer beer beer is a really good one to practice
this because it has two it's a short word with two e's but you'll hear the
beer beer and korea okay you'll also find
this in words with e followed by the letter r
e and r together can sometimes be pronounced with the default ear so look
at words like algeria
algeria it's not algeria and it's not the long e either we don't say
algeria we say algeria and
hero hero okay especially strong in british
english hero hero
words like serious serious okay and
era era practice with me algeria
algeria hero
hero sirius
sirius and era
era okay era that's a cool word
some words where the e comes before the i again can be pronounced with this
diphthong sound words like weird
weird where you've got e i and it's pronounced ear weird
weird okay also in words with eo like theory
theory okay these are exceptions they're exceptional
rules here so don't worry they're not very common but you should learn them
sometimes eo is ear theory okay and e i in weird
weird also again with that magic e that we talked about before please don't
worry we will explain magic e properly at the end in words like
atmosphere atmosphere or really simple words first
like here here you have
e r e but if you take that e away at the end and throw it away you just have her
so h e r her with that er sound that we learned
before but h e r e here
so you can see the magic e at the end changes the first vowel sound from
er in her to ear in here okay that is the power of
magic e okay here atmosphere
atmosphere and
severe severe
okay practice with me here
here atmosphere atmosphere and
severe severe practice this sentence to
practice this pronunciation it's a really bad idea to drink beer
here that's a tough one it's a really bad
idea to drink beer here it's a really bad idea to drink beer
here okay it's a really bad idea to drink beer here really cool sentence
okay practice that one as fast as you can until you get a feel for that ear
ear ear sound number two his idea of a really serious career is an engineer in
a theater his idea of a really serious career
is an engineer in a theater okay practice that one too as many times as
you need and i promise that sound will get really easy okay let's move on to
the next way to pronounce the letter e in english
okay the fifth way that we can pronounce the letter e in english is as the short
vowel sound e
be careful don't get this sound confused with the longer e sound
e okay if you want some help with the
difference between those two sounds check out my video up here e
okay if is a short vowel sound watch closely
it's the same sound in words like tin and bin okay it's a really short e sound
but here in english we can sometimes pronounce the letter e as an
you know this because you're studying english
english in the word english the letter e is pronounced
in the word england where i'm from also in the word
pretty pretty you'll find it sometimes but not
always where the syllable is stressed where that e is stressed england
english and pretty okay in some words where you stress that e we pronounce it
as the short sound practice with me
english england and
pretty pretty don't say england or pretty that
sounds really silly in english but pretty
english and england okay you'll also find the letter e pronounced
i in words that have two or more syllables but the if syllable is
unstressed the syllable with the letter e is not stressed so look at words like
defend defend and that word believe again be
leave the first either is not stressed believe
believe okay the leave is stressed so believe
that means that the first e we pronounce respect
believe defend
okay practice with me respect
respect relieve
relieve receive
receive and believe
believe and finally defend
defend you'll see that letter e at the beginning again is unstressed so we
pronounce it defend
respect relieve okay
here's some special words that you should also practice because they're
very common and they also have the letter e pronounced
try these words emotion
emotion okay and enough very common word enough i've had enough i have enough of
this okay enough enough
and result result
result okay also the word 11 the number e11 we're going to look at the number 11
later because there's lots of letter e's in that word but in the word 11 the
first e is pronounced i 11 we don't say 11 or 11 we say 11
11 okay okay also the letter e can be pronounced
in past tense regular verbs that end in t or d
so past tense verbs that end in t or d like wanted or needed or loaded okay
you'll notice that it finishes in a d or a t want
is the t and need for the d so in the past we add edi and we pronounce that e
as did
one tid lo did
hated okay practice with me
needed wanted
loaded hated
okay needed wanted loaded hated again remember that ed here is pronounced id
with that short i sound okay a practice sentence for this one is i believe he
wanted to defend england i believe he wanted to defend england
really good sentence to practice that short it sound here as the letter e
i believe he wanted
to defend england okay i believe he wanted to
defend england now try this one 11 pretty english women
11 pretty english women it's difficult
because there's lots of letter e's in there but we're going to focus on just
the ease pronounced i so 11 pretty
english women okay women is also pronounced with that again
11 pretty english women 11 pretty english women
say that as fast as you can 11 pretty english women and the faster you can say
that the easier this sound will become so practice as much as you need to okay
let's move on okay the letter e can also be pronounced
as a schwa sound the schwa sound is uh it's really relaxed and in english
the schwa sound is never stressed that means it's never a part of a sentence
that we stress it's always unstressed if you want to know
all about the schwa sound i have a really long lesson up here that you can
watch to learn and master the schwa sound but today remember the letter e is
very often pronounced as a schwa sound okay in words like happen or open or
often okay the e and the n there is pronounced an with a schwa so the letter
e here is so you'll find this in words that end in
en like open and often and happen open
often and happen you'll also find this very often in words that end in e-n-t
like parent
or moment or present
or accident okay parent moment
present and accident all of them end in ent and
it's unstressed so we pronounce that letter e as a parent
accident or
president the president of the united states
president okay practice that
parent moment
president and accident okay well done okay but the
most important time that you should remember to pronounce the letter e as a
schwa as a sound is in the word the
the okay the man the boy
the girl the car it's super important because that word the is said really
quickly really fast and that's because we're using the schwa
the man the boy the car the girl okay the so remember that most
of the time in english when you see the it is pronounced
the only time it's not is when the next word starts with a vowel so in the boy
the next word boy starts with b a consonant but if we say apple
it's not the apple it's the apple the apple so it's very important that we
look at the word the as having two different e pronunciations it can be uh
or it can be e that long e sound the boy
but the apple okay because apple starts with
a vowel so orange
what would that be orange that starts with a vowel so we would say the orange
but what about house
house that starts with a consonant the house
the house okay so remember the man the boy but the apple and the orange okay
okay so can you write two more examples of that in the comments can you give me
one example of v and one example of the just so i know that you've learned it
okay for now i want you to remember that the e in the can
very very important try this practice sentence the president's accent is often
a problem the president's accent is often a
problem how many uh sounds are in that sentence
the president's accent is often a problem
can you write in the comments how many how many uh schwa sounds are in that
sentence how many times can you see the letter e in there where it's pronounced
uh the president's accent is often a
problem okay let's see who can get that one right
number two the parents were in the recent accident
the parents were in the recent accident okay practice with me the parents were
in the recent accident
okay okay let's move on to the next sound but
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enjoy this lesson okay okay the seventh way that we can
pronounce the letter e in english is as the diphthong sound
a a
a you'll often find this sound in words where e and i are together again like
wait and freight okay e i in english is very often pronounced
a remember this is a diphthong sound so we
glide one vowel into another but it's one sound
a a
so weight
weight and
freight freight
and vein
vein the veins in your arm or the number eight
eight okay so remember the letter e e i here can be pronounced a
a ate
weight freight and vain
vein you'll also find the letter e pronounced
as an a in words where the letter e comes together with a y in words like
they they
also gray
gray even in the really common greeting hey
hey e is followed by the letter y and this in english is pronounced
a so this time the letter e is pronounced
a a
what about words like obey obey okay so practice these words with
me gray
gray pray
pray obey
obey hey
and they
they okay
you'll also find the letter e pronounced a in really rare exceptional words like
pate and cafe
not many words look like this in english because in english we don't normally use
these accent markers these little things that go above the letters they're
usually words borrowed from other languages like french okay
pate and cafe but here that e on the end with the
accent marker is always pronounced a a
cafe and pate okay try this sentence
there's eight and they are gray there is eight and they are gray okay
there is eight and they are gray try this one the gray prey animals obey him
the grey prey animals obey him the gray prey animals obey him okay gray
pray obey the gray prey animals obey him and finally remember that other e with
the marker i bought pate in the cafe i bought some pate in the cafe do you
like to eat pate okay most people in england will have
pate on toast for christmas okay it's really common pate on toast either for
breakfast usually as part of a christmas dinner pate on toast okay pate on bread
okay the eighth way that we can pronounce this letter in english the
letter e can be pronounced i i
and this one is super confusing because it's often in words that are spelled the
same as words that are pronounced a a we looked at words like ate and weight
but sometimes the e i and especially e i g can be pronounced i
look at words like height
height how tall someone is height we don't say hate we say height
and also slight slight
luckily this is not common normally the pronunciation of e-i-g-h-t
would be eight weight freight okay but in some cases
the letter e here can be pronounced i as in height or slight okay remember
height and slight you'll also see this in a really common
word i i and eyes okay one eye two eyes here
the letter e is pronounced i i it's the same sound when you say i am
i i do i am okay i
let's practice all three of those words again
height slight and
eye eyes
okay practice this sentence she is a nice
height and she has lovely eyes she is a nice height and she has lovely
eyes she's a nice height and she has lovely
eyes okay okay number nine the ninth way to
pronounce the letter e in english is air
it's another diphthong sound another diphthong vowel sound
air
okay the two sounds glide into each other
okay you'll know this from words like there and where
very common in words with e r e there and where these are two really
common words so make sure that you pronounce these correctly
they're very commonly mispronounced practice them with things like
where is she she is over there
where is he he is over there okay where
and there where
there where is she she's over there okay
you'll also find the letter e pronounced air in words with e a r again i said
before there are many ways to pronounce ea in english and here is another one in
the word bear bear
and pear and even
where as in i'm wearing clothes wearing clothes
where with e-r-e and
where clothes
are exactly the same in english okay they are pronounced identically that
means exactly the same where e-r-e and where
i'm wearing clothes so e-a-r can sometimes be pronounced
air in english practice with me bear
pear and
where where
try this sentence i'm wearing nice clothes
i'm wearing nice clothes or i like to wear nice clothes
now try this super sentence where should i wear the bear costume
where should i wear the bear costume maybe you're going to a party and you're
dressing as a bear where should i wear the halloween bear costume where should
i wear the bear costume okay practice that one now try this over there
where ah there
over there where
ah over there okay that's a really good one for
practicing the intonation in english over there
where ah
there okay
practice that and try and copy my intonation as well and you'll really
start to sound exactly like native english speakers do when they're
speaking the sentence like that okay number 10 is the letter e pronounced as
ah thankfully i only know one word in
english where the letter e is pronounced r and it is in the word
sergeant sergeant okay this is the only time i
know in english where the letter e is pronounced
sergeant okay so just remember that one word sergeant is somebody in the army
okay somebody it's a rank in the military
sergeant okay sergeant
okay the final way that we can pronounce the letter e in english is
we don't pronounce the letter e at all it's silent okay it can be silent but
sometimes with magic e it can also change the word
so look at past tense verbs like play stay
and kick or stop when we put them in the past played stayed kicked and stopped
they have the letters e d but we don't pronounce the e the e
is silent okay in past tense regular verbs the ed
is pronounced it does not include the e we don't say
stop head we say stop we don't say played or played we just
say play okay that d
on the end is good but we don't use the e letter the e is silent
the only time the e is not silent is when it's following a t or a d at the
end of the original verb for example in wanted and needed and loaded where we
pronounce it as we learned that before okay but in most
regular past tense verbs the e is silent practice with me
kicked kicked
played played
stayed stayed and stopped
stopped okay remember past tense regular verbs
the e is silent we don't pronounce the e at all unless it's after t or d t
okay sometimes native speakers when we're
speaking really fast also like to make a silent e in a word we like to
delete or remove or take away the letter e so in words like
camera camera when native english speakers are
speaking really fast we might just say cam
ra camera
camera we don't say camera we just delete that e and say camera we do this
also with words like interest in
trest it should be pronounced interest into
rest but instead when we're speaking really quickly we'll just say
interest interest
the same with different it should be
different but when we're speaking very quickly we
don't have time we take that letter e and throw it away we just say
different different
this will really help you to speak more quickly in english camera
camera different
different and interest
interest practice with me camera
cam interest interest and
different different
remember if you're speaking more slowly you can pronounce the letter e
different interest and camera but when you're speaking really quickly
outside you don't need the letter e camera
interest different try this sentence this camera is
different i'm interested this camera is different
i'm interested your turn this camera is different i'm interested
okay also we find silent e in words where the
e is after a v so in words like movement movement and
improvement that e in the middle is completely
silent it's move with the and then
movement likewise
improvement improvement okay finally we also find
silent e in something someone somewhere and somehow okay any word where you have
some and then another word and we combine them together somewhere somehow
someone something that e is silent okay practice with me
somewhere somehow
someone something
somewhere somehow someone something okay the letter e there is completely silent
so whenever you see some and then another word combined with it someone
somewhere something somehow you'll notice the letter e is silent okay okay
now magic e magicky is special it's silent but it still has power magic e
can change the pronunciation of the other parts of a word let's have a look
look at the word car
car c-a-r but if we put magic e on the end
we don't have cara we have care care so magic e is silent but it changes
the a from r to air it goes from car with no magicky to
care with a magic e
look at the word h
if you have h e r her you can hear that er sound that we learned before but if
you add magic e it changes the word to
here her
here her here okay that is the power of magic e it
goes on the end of a word and it changes the pronunciation of the word but it's
still silent it's like it's invisible but it has the power to change things
car becomes care her becomes here okay pet becomes pete
lots of different amazing ways the letter e the magic e can change the rest
of the word okay okay so many times in english the magic e will change the
pronunciation of the first syllable the first vowel sound from a simple sound
either short or long vowel sound to a diphthong so in words like hop and then
you add magic e and it becomes o which is a diphthong
hope hope
in ah car to air okay so we take a short vowel
sound and we make it into a diphthong vowel sound car care
her here
okay we can also use this with things like
quit and quite i
qui okay quit and quite hop and hope okay
let's try some practice sentences with magic e and you'll get a good feel for
when we use it number one i don't care about my car i don't care about my car
okay you've got care and car the only difference is that magic e care with the
diphthong air and
car i don't care about my car
number two her car is not here
her and here her car is not here practice with me her car is not here her
car is not here number three i will quit if it's quite boring i will quit you've
got quit and quite with the magic e quit and quite i will quit if it's quite
boring you go to a new job and it's really boring you may tell your friends
i will quit i will leave this job if it's quite boring quit and quiet i will
quit this job if it's quite boring number four i hope you hop over to the
shop later i hope you hop over to the shop later you've got hope and hop
i hope you hop over to the shop later hop here means to go it's a special way
that native english speakers use to mean to go it means to go really quickly i
hope you hop over to the shop later you might ask someone can you hop round to
the shop for me and get me something can you hop around the shop for me and get
this can you hop around the shop okay it doesn't mean literally to hop on one leg
it just means to go somewhere quickly i'm hopping to
work i'm hopping there okay it means to go really quickly so practice with me
again i hope you hop to the shop later i hope you hop to the shop later okay okay
well done so remember there are 11 ways that we can pronounce the letter e have
a look on the screen now and you'll see the different 11 ways that we can
pronounce the letter e number one is the e in we
she and c number two is the e
in bet head and let
number three is uh
in her
and were number four is
ear in here near and fear number five is i in pretty
or english number six is the schwa sound the uh in
the word the and movement number seven is the a sound in they an
eight and number eight is the i in i and
height number nine the air in their and bear
number ten the ah insargent and number eleven the silent e
in kicked or also the magic e in care and movement
okay so let's practice some words that have many e's or some long words with
the letter e number one eleven everybody knows this it's a
number after ten ten eleven okay eleven has three different e sounds okay there
are three ways that we pronounce the letter e in the word eleven you've got e
at the beginning then e in the middle and then the schwa
at the end eleven
eleven so practice that one if you want to practice three of the different
sounds at the same time eleven eleven eleven eleven eleven okay
eleven number two is the word expedient
ex be dent
lots of different e pronunciations in there expedient
expedient okay it's a long word practice with me expedient
expedient expedient means when you do something
that is not really proper probably not right but it's very convenient it's a
convenient way to do something okay expedient expedient
number three is exceeded exceeded lots of letter e's in here too and you've got
a double e in the middle xc did xc did you've got e
exceeded exceeded to exceed means to go beyond to go further than to exceeded
you'll hear this in the sentence he exceeded my expectations that means he
was better than i thought he would be he exceeded my expectations exceeded
exceeded number four benevolence this is one of my favorite
words in english benevolence
you also have benevolent okay benevolence
benevolence see if you can tell me what that word
means by writing your answer in the comments
benevolence benevolence okay and finally number five
is a really long word defenselessness
defenselessness defenselessness
how many e's are there in there how many different ways can you hear to pronounce
the letter e defenselessness
defenselessness defenselessness okay write that in the
comments below okay to finish this lesson we're going to have a super
practice sentence in this sentence are all 11 ways to pronounce the letter
e so this is the sentence you should practice 100 times until you're really
really good at it okay okay this is the sentence sergeant there
were 11 grey emus here with eyes closed sergeant there were 11 grey emus here
with eyes closed sergeant there were 11 grey emus here
with eyes closed okay all 11
different ways to pronounce the letter e are in that sentence listen one more
time sergeant there were 11 grey emus here
with eyes closed sergeant there were 11 grey emus here
with eyes closed and here look now we can see all 11 of
the different sounds all the different ways to pronounce the letter e okay
sergeant there were 11 grey emus here with eyes closed
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