hello hello hello everybody my name is Steve Ford welcome to your English
lesson today I have a great lesson to help all of my English learners this is
a pronunciation practice a pronunciation lesson that's going to be useful for
everybody that's learning English so it doesn't matter what part of the world
you're from these two sounds especially the sound can really give people a lot
of headaches we have the classic sheep versus ship can you hear the difference
or living and leaving if you can't hear the difference and you need to practice
more follow me as we go into our lesson are you ready let's go everybody say
ship in check everybody say cheep-cheep everybody said
slip slip everybody said sleep sweetie a ship full
of sheep everybody sheep on the ship
be careful not to slip everybody be careful not to sleep
did you fill the glass every night did you feel the glass do you wanna sit
every night do you wanna see
oh maybe you could remember before everything happened in 2020 maybe you
wanted to or you can remember going on one of these things here now this is a
huge cruise and we would say ship ship contrast that with this animal here
sheep sheep you want to hear the difference and also to say the
difference so when we have it I want you to think about two things the first I
want you to keep your mouth relaxed very relaxed and at the same time make it
short a it a contrast that with a sound work I would like you to smile and with
that you could say II you can see that it's much longer and we want to smile as
we say it II II can you hear the difference ship sheep ship sheep now
you're probably thinking why should I worry if I say this one wrong and I say
sheep instead of ship well as a native speaker I know that when I'm listening
to my students and remember I'm an English teacher sometimes at the
beginning of my classes when I'm having a chitchat with my students they will
say for example oh I was leaving and when I don't really follow the context
up and to that point I'm not sure if they're saying I was leaving the place
or if I was living in that place so sometimes I'm trying to second-guess I'm
trying to fill in the gaps for my students when I'm not quite sure what
they're trying to pronounce so if that can happen to me as an English teacher
imagine two other native speakers who are not English teachers maybe you like
to wear high that's right heels heels so we have that either
and also an L makes it a little bit more calm
located contrast that with hit pills pills can you hear the difference pills
heels fill feel slip sleep baby sit baby see the thing you want to do is make
sure that you can hear the difference between the sounds and a really good way
to do that is if we have three words and they could all be the same
for example sleep sleep sleep or one of them could be different sleep slip sleep
which one was different well in this case it was the second one so let's try
to figure a few of these out slip slip sleep if you thought that it was the
third one that was different high-five let's do one more slip sleep slip if you
thought the middle one was the different one that is correct and the last one
slip slip slip if you thought that all three were the same that is correct
high-five so now that you've trained it why don't we try to practice some
sentences here
sheep on a ship a ship full of sheep now you will start it slowly sheep on a ship
ok very good and now let's try the next one a ship full of sheep very good
that's great ok so now I'm going to read a sentence very quickly and I would like
you to choose the word that you think that I'm saying
it could be an it sound or it could be an e sound I ready let's go did you feel
the glass did you feel the glass so if you thought that it was to feel the
glass it's kind of strange but yeah it could happen and I guess you could feel
the glass yeah it was the second one did you feel the glass do you want to see do
you want to see if you thought that I said the second one seat that is correct
that's one where we smile and the sound is a little longer that's a big ship so
I said that at normal speed and if you thought that it was the short I sound
high-five that is correct ship be careful not to sleep be careful
not to sleep
in this case yeah it would be sleep sleep yeah okay everybody I hope that
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