hi everybody this is Jennifer from Tarle speech and language with your
question of the week today's question is how do I pronounce the words pour and
pool let's take a look at these words the word pour is a verb and it means to
take liquid and put it from one vessel into the other poo is an adjective that
means lacking in something and pool is a body of water typically in your backyard
or at a community where kids go swimming in the summer so good news here two
words are pronounced exactly the same pour and poor the word pool is going to
be pronounced differently so let's take a look at poor first think of
this word as two sounds p and or make sure for the or part of the word that you
round your lips and then you pull them back for the er poor for the next word pool
think of three sounds again start with the P and then we're going to move to
the ew vowel I think this is where people get confused because the words
look exactly the same at the beginning so if you look back here poor that looks
pretty similar to pool here's the difference and the trick to make these
words sound different end this word with an L sound by touching the tip of your
tongue to the back of your top front teeth pool okay so let's look at the
differences pour and pool if you are a person who confuses the R and the L
sounds be sure that for the R sound at the end of this word your tongue is down
and away from your top teeth and for the L sound make sure that you touch your
teeth okay let's give those a try poor poor poor pool pool pool and in a
sentence the poor dog fell into the pool if you liked this video please give us a
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