hello hello hello everybody my name is Steve Ford and welcome to your English
lesson today I have a great lesson to help you to learn how to pronounce and E
so let's go chip sheep head Hey slip sleep kiss keys ship sheep hit eat slip
sleep kiss keys fill feel he'll deal sheep on a ship a ship full of sheep so
my first question for you is that maybe you're thinking about your next holiday
and maybe you would like to go on a cruise well you can see this is a cruise
ship ship and that's our first sound for today one of the most difficult sounds
in English but if you're thinking about relaxing on that nice cruise ship then
that's the sound that you want to relax and that's what you want to do relax
ship ship it's called a lacs vowel sound ship look at my mouth how
it's so oh so relaxed ship contrast that with sheep sheep now this is a more
tense vowel sound you can see that I'm smiling and I have to use my muscles
around my mouth here to get those lips nice and tight sheep sheep can you hear
the difference ship sheep ship sheep so what do we have in this picture here
sheep on a ship now you try it nice and slowly
pretty good one more time
all right now do you like sports if you do in some sports you have to hit the
ball hit the ball contrast that with heat heat that's
longer that's that long one I was talking about before the one where you
have to smile you heat the pan for example we also have sleep and slip
sleep slip we have keys and kiss keys and kiss which would you prefer feel and
fill this is more difficult because you have the L on the end so it becomes
actually two sounds before we just have the it and the e and now we have the it
all and the e all okay here is your practice now I'm going to read a
sentence and I'm going to choose one of the words and according to that word you
want to say the answer a or the answer B that's a big sheep that's a big sheep
so according to what I said the answer should be yes he eats a lot and the next
one did you heat it did you heat it so if you thought that the answer was
letter B that's on the stove high five okay here's a super bonus question we
have two vowel sounds
heat the bowl dough tricky heat the bull if you
thought that I was saying letter B you are correct
excellent it's heat the bowl contrast that with hits the ball you can
practice that on your own you can watch this video again try to imitate and
repeat what I have just said pick the ball heat the ball hit the ball heat the
ball next one how did you slip how did you slip if you think the answer is
there was a banana peel you are correct and to contrast how did you sleep that
would be be very well for ten hours
now which one you think I'm saying here a pill can make you sleep so if you
thought that the answer was letter B a pill can make you sleep you are correct
letter A is a pill can make you slip ok everybody I hope that this lesson was
useful for you trying to listen to and also pronounce and practice those two
vowel sounds that are so hard for so many people the sound and the e sound
and I hope to see you in our next lesson bye for now