Hey naturals, how are you? I am super excited to be here with you today to help you improve your pronunciation
especially focusing on vowel sounds in English
So in English as in other languages that use the Roman alphabet we have five vowels
AEIOU however in English we have many more than just five sounds we have more than
Fourteen different sounds associated with these letters and some of those sounds are quite similar
so if you've been struggling with
Differentiating some words from others with similar sounds this lesson is going to help you so much
So keep watching so today. I'm out in nature with you
I've brought you into my backyard for something a little bit different a little bit more natural
So in this lesson we're going to take a look at seven different words that have similar but different vowel sounds
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Are you ready? Let's go you may have noticed that today?
My voice is slightly different than usual because I have a bit of a cold yes
Cold is our first word today
Oh
cold
Listen to the vowel sound and repeat after me cold
I have a cold next word is similar, but difference could co uld
could could has the same vowel sound as words that are spelled much differently like put or
look
could
Now be sure that you are not only listening to me
But repeat after me when you hear me say a new word so so far. We have cold. I have a cold and
Could I could feel much better by tomorrow cold could calls?
from the verb to call I
Called my mother this morning called so not call-ed
but called
So be careful these words that I'm gonna show you a lot of them are verbs and none of them get an extra syllable for
the past 10 cold
could
called
excellent let's keep going a similar verb to
Cull
C-u-l-l
Cull means to select a small number from a greater number for example
I received hundreds of applications for a job opening
I need to cull out the top 10 for interviews for the next step in the process to
cull
go ahead and repeat to cull and let's say the past tense because it's more similar to
Hold so cold could called culled
Excellent next we have peel to keel over is a phrasal verb that comes from ship
Terminology boats keel from one side to the other but people can keel over. This is slang for
To die or to pass out the weather is so hot I hope no one keels over
From it excellent so repeat keel over
keeled
so keeled sounds quite similar to
Killed right to kill it is that short I found not
Kill let's use this in a phrase using slang to kill the vibe
Means to bring some negative feelings the party was going great until
Paul walked in and killed the vibe killed you can repeat after me killed now so far we have
Cold could called culled
keeled
killed and our 7th word is
cooled
the weather the temperature
Has cooled off
Quite a bit from earlier in the summer cool could be a verb or a noun cool can mean good excellent
So let's repeat the words one more time cold could
Called culled keeled killed and cooled
Excellent so you're learning so much about vowel sounds in English today
I have a cold
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But is the same vowel sound as called by the way ah ah
Called, bought
You should get that
That's the first step the first next step in
learning English with me to improve your fluency and your confidence so thanks so much for watching and have a
Beautiful day, and I'll see you again soon in the next lesson bye for now