Hi everyone it's Jennifer from Tarle speech with your two for Tuesday. This is a homophone
lesson - two words that are pronounced exactly the same way. So again these words are pronounced
the same way. They have different spellings and different definitions for words today are
trader, which is a person who buys and sells goods; and then a traitor, a person who betrays.
So two syllables, two beats in these words. We're going to start with that tray.
This is a little bit tricky so let's break this down a bit. You're going to start with that t
sound and that is made by touching the tip of your tongue to the back of your top front
teeth. You are then going to move directly to that r sound. You have options for this.
You can either flip the tip of your tongue back away from your teeth or point it down
to the bottom of the mouth and the back of the tongue is going to be pulled up. Have your lips
ready as soon as you start this word in a square tense shape for that r. tr
So what i'm doing here is my tongue is here, my lips are ready for the er, and I move my tongue
down to the bottom of my mouth and I pull the back of my tongue up for that r. tr tr
You can do tr tr that's a little bit harder for me, but I can do it if I think about it. And then
we're going to end with that long a sound. To do this your mouth opens wide, tip of the tongue is
low, back is pulled up, and then your tongue moves too high and flat and smiling lips. tray tray
Then we're going to end with that syllable der. To do that touch the tip of the tongue to the
back of the top front teeth and then pull it again down or flip it back for the er sound.
This is actually the flap t and what that is, is think of it as a super fast d sound. Okay
so I'm going to teach it as the d sound. If you say it slowly it's going to be fine but
officially and technically, you want it to be super fast you want it to be that flap sound.
So let's put all that together tray der tray der
trader trader trader traitor traitor traitor
And now for a sentence:
The trader was known as a traitor amongst his co-workers.
So give it a try I know people are going to notice the difference. If
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