hey they are Jennifer from Tarle speech with your pronunciation question
we have a lesson on the spelling ough and how do you pronounce certain words
the words look very confusing when you look at them so let's go through
definitions first our words are tough difficult through which means to go in
one side and come out the other thorough which means detailed though despite the
fact and thought to think or believe I have a whole class on ough and if
you're interested in that I'll put a link in the description so you can check
that out alright so for these words if you can just memorize these new
Spelling's that I came up with this is actually a fairly easy lesson so here
this ough in tough is going to be pronounced as us a short U and an F
because yes these letters G H sometimes do make the F sound so number one we
have tough tough to make that F sound make sure that the air is coming out of
your mouth and that your mouth is slightly open you're going to kind of
bite the inside of your bottom lip and your voice box is off and not moving
tough tough you can bite the outside of your lip and say tough if you want but I
bite the inside tough tough just make sure like I said
that air comes out next we have through and these two words are pronounced
exactly the same so you threw the ball and it went through the hoop so in this
case the ough is pronounced as an ew and to start that word we are going to
have the thr that is really difficult so you're going to stick your tongue out of
your mouth for that and make sure you let that air keep moving over the top
over your tongue so the air moves out th and then as you pull your tongue in
you're gonna try to point your tongue down or flip the tip of your tongue back
for that r through through through and for that ew sound
your just gonna pucker your lips and make a nice long ew sound through next we have
thorough this is a two syllable combination here ther
O thorough to do that th sound again tongue is out of the mouth not touching
the teeth and you want to make sure that the air can go over the top of that
tongue to get a little more specific I've had a few people ask about this
yeah you can't cup your tongue a little bit and you can see I do that with my
tongue so if you're more advanced definitely do that if you're more of a
beginner just make sure you try to stick your tongue out of your mouth and try
not to touch your teeth so when you do not touch your teeth that allows the air
to come over the top of your tongue so you have that nice th sound then move to
the ER again for the er sound kind of square tense lips point the tip of the
tongue down or flip it back and then move to that o by puckering the lips
thorough thorough thorough next we have though and to say this we're just going
to do that th sound like we just talked about and then add an O
though though though and make sure that o is nice and long and then the last one we
have thought and to make this one I think this is probably the most
confusing one because a lot of my students will say a t instead of the
th so make sure that you are allowing that air to come out of your mouth for
that th sound and then touch the tip of your tongue to the back of your top
front teeth to end the word with that and then we're gonna have the open short
oh oval mouth wide open that allows the
tongue to get low in the mouth the tip of the tongue low and the back of the
tongue to be pulled up so we have thought thought thought let's give them
all a try tough through thorough though thought tough
through thorough though and thought and let me give you a sentence though I
thought it would be tough to get through I was successful due to my thorough plan
give it a try I know people are definitely going to notice the
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