Lucy today we have an exciting pronunciation video. What do you think about your pronunciation
good, excellent or could be improved? Could be improved. Excellent. So today we're going to
give you some words, you're just going to try and say them. The first word on the screen that you
can see, how do we say this word? Woman. Not quite 'woman' but 'women'. 'Women'. Well done, good job. Next
word. 'Doctor'. Easy, easy. Now there's two difficult words here what do you think about these two?
'Few', 'sew'. Wonderful. That is incredible, lots of people get this word wrong which is 'sew'
and you've got both of those correct. Fabulous job. What about these three words? 'Month',
'cloth', 'clothes'. I don't see the difference. So these three words are listen carefully,
'Months'. 'Month'. So for Chinese speakers it's really difficult to say that 'fzzz'. Can you do 'fff' on its own
and 'zzz' on its own. So 'months'. 'Month'. Keep working on that one. What about 'clothes'? 'Cloth'.
Again the first 'fff' sound when you watch this video back you will see that it's really tricky. And the
last one is 'cloth'. 'Cloths'. So 'months'. 'Months'. 'Clothes'. 'Clothes'. And 'cloth'. 'Cloths'. Again 'Cloth'.
'Cloth'. Excellent was the your tongue. Good job. The next two words. 'Hour', 'our'. Well done they're said
exactly the same. Good job. Now these two. 'Piece', 'pierce'. 'Piece' and 'pierce'. 'Piece', 'Pierce'. Well done.
These three words. 'hair', 'hire', 'here'. Not exactly. The first word is 'hair'. 'Hair'. And the second word is 'heir'. 'Heir'.
And the third word is 'here'. 'Here'. 'Hair', 'heir', 'here'. 'Air', 'heir', 'here'. Not so much 'hair' with a 'rrr' but 'hair'. 'Hair'. Good.
'Hair' and 'heir'. 'Hair', 'heir'. Good and 'here'. 'Here'. Good job. These three words. 'Analysis', 'analysis',
'analysisis'. Not exactly. 'Analysis'. 'Analysis'. 'Analyse'. 'Analyse'. 'Analyses'. 'Analyses'. Or you could say
'Analyses'. 'Analyses'. Good job. These two words. 'Threat', 'threaten'. Don't forget I want to see your tongue,
'threat'. 'Threat'. And 'threaten'. 'Threaten'. Well done. That's getting better. What about these two words?
'Participants', 'participation'. Well done. 'Participant' and 'participation'. 'Participant',
'participation'. Nice one. 'Developed'. 'Develop'. "Develop', 'development'. And 'Development'. 'Development'.
What about these three? 'Variety', 'variation', 'vary'. 'Variation'. 'Variation'. 'Variation'. 'Variation'. That
was really good, what about 'vary'? 'Vary'. Nice one. What about these two words?
'Deny' and 'Daniel'? 'Denial'. 'Denial'. 'Deny' and 'denial'. 'Deny', 'denial'. What about these two words? 'Suit', 'suite'. Oh, 'Suit'. 'Suit'.
'Suite'. 'Suite'. 'Suit' and 'suite'. 'Suit' and 'suite'. Nice one. 'Academic'. 'Academic'. 'Academic'. Nice.
These three words, four words. 'Debt', 'doubt', 'thumb', 'limb'. So silent 'b' in all cases, so
'debt'. 'Debt'. 'Doubt'. 'Doubt'. 'Thumb'. 'Thumb'.see your tongue, 'thumb'. 'Thumb'. 'Limb'. 'Limb'. No, 'limb'. 'Limb'. Good.
Now these two. 'Sever', 'sewe'. 'Severe'. 'Severe', 'sever'. 'Sever', Nice. These two. 'bury', 'fairy'. 'Bury'. 'Bury'. 'Fury'. 'Fury'.
'Employee', 'employer'. This is difficult, say 'pla'. Sorry, could you pardon? 'Pla'. 'Pla'.
'Ploy'. 'Ployer'. 'Ploy'. 'Ployer'. Just repeat after me 'Ploy'. 'Ploy'. 'Employ'. 'Employ'. 'Employer'.
'Employer'. 'Employer'. 'Employer'. 'Employee'. 'Employee'. 'Employee'. 'Employee'. Tricky, tricky, tricky. Next one.
'Bias'? 'Bias'. Nice one and these three. 'Climb', 'talk', 'half'. First one. 'Clam'. 'Calm'. 'Calm'. 'Talk'. 'Talk. 'Half'. 'Half'.
'Bureaucratic'? 'Bureaucratic'. In the 'bureaucracy'. Well done, good job. 'Bureaucracy'. 'Bureaucracy'. This one.
'Philosophy', philosophical'. 'Philosophy' and 'philosophical'. 'Philosophy' and 'philosophical'.
Good and the last one. 'Fatigue'. 'Fatigue'. Good job Lucy. Were they, were those easy or difficult
for you to do? Half, half? Half, half. What do you think are your strongest pronunciation features and
what do you think you need to work on? I cannot remember the strongest one but I only need how to
You need to learn how to do the sound. You're absolutely right, good job. Go and do some practice,
look in the mirror make sure that you're working on that every single day. It's really, really
important that you persevere with that one. Take care, see you soon Lucy. Thank you, see you soon.