hello and welcome to speak American English with Lyman Holton my name is
Lyman Holton in this lesson we're going to talk about American English
pronunciation are you ready let's begin consonant blends consonant blends this
time we're going to look at the consonant blends PR SK s LS m and s n
remember consonant blends are two consonants that come together blending
their sounds now knowing this helps you to be able to sound out words to sound
them out when you're reading so you know what the word is to be able to pronounce
them when you're speaking you want to pronounce your words correctly right
okay here we go PR pup-pup P is pump our ruff-ruff let
them together they sound like prop prop eyes prize no the eat makes the I sound
long in this word prize a price perhaps you enter a contest you're the winner
you're the fastest runner you bake the best pie something and you get a prize
and the prize might be a gift certificate maybe a big trophy but
applies they call it a price not a surprise you may be surprised that you
won but you get a prize is the gift okay PR prop moon moon now in the last video
we talked about the word plum fruit and when that fruit is dried out is called a
prune of prune now also people Prue bushes they they will take some large
branch cutters and cut lot branches on the bush and they'll say they are
pruning the bush please prove the bushes prune you you prove sound like a boom
sound PR pro Eddie Eddie print or any Eddie sounded like pretty someone who
looks good maybe they're not quite it's like this
happy glad and sad well we've got beautiful
pretty good-looking nice-looking you know and so on so but pretty she's a
pretty girl that's a very nice compliment or maybe the countryside
looks so pretty on a sunny day SK s sexist cake
Scott Scott Scott um um skunk an animal about so big so long about the size of a
house cat it's their different kind usually people think of their their
black with a white stripe and a big bushy tail way strike down the center of
their back and they stay they can spray a terrible smell that's a skunk ski s
case duska now this I what did you think I would sound like an eye no not here
it sounds like e scuffie ski so to go in the wintertime you go up into the
mountains and you ski down the mountain slope right SK scub I ll is ill ill if
this were H it be hill if we talk about the s in deke kill but this is skill
perhaps you have great skill when it comes to skiing skill something that you
can that's a skill all right SL suck la I I
long I sound because of the e take off the e slid now slid happens to be the
past tense of slide hmm cutting like that now when you're a kid did you ever
go on a snow-covered Hill and slide down the hill it's not a scheme it's sliding
sliding or people will call it sledding also but when you go sledding on a sled
what you're doing is you're actually sliding down the hill many kids would
use a big piece of cardboard flatten it out and slide down the hill ID e I slide
now he slid that illegal slip take off the e be in the past SL slut slut ii ii
ii p but eep-eep sleep do you know sleep is it's probably what
you do about eight hours each night hopefully sleep you close your eyes and
go to sleep now SL slow o slope if if we took out the Ely to have slop
right slop like something you throw the page to eat whole old food from your
house right you throw it to the pigs it's called slop that slop but here we
have slope slope the slope could be what we call the hillside you go down when
you're sliding down the hill or sledding down the hill the hill that it's at a
slope and angle going down slope s em son mum oke Oke o the e makes a sound
loud or sound long otherwise it sounds like smog
right which here that wouldn't be a correctly spelled spelled word there is
a word smock but it wouldn't be this one okay I don't think it is I'm not sure
maybe you should look that up in your dictionary but I think smock with the
SML seeking not sure it just came to me hmm
SM oke is smoke though and smoke smoke que pase hunk smoke okay we say a person
smokes if they have cigarettes cigars a pipe they're smoking they like to smoke
there's a fire and smoke is coming up from the fire smoke SM smush my II L
sound like L E and L sound like L now L smell smell perhaps smell you can smell
something it is smoke is it's smoke that you smell when you come home and someone
is cooking in the kitchen or you cook something oh the smell of fried chicken
oh the smell of baked bread smell or perhaps you sit beside someone on the
bus who doesn't have good hygiene you don't watch much and they smell bad SM
summer I'll I'll he makes the I sound long in this word i L little smile okay
smile you have a smile the opposite of a smile
with the problem you're not happy you are happy or at least you look at me
when you smile flash those pearly whites s and so no no sniffs no
No can you hear the s in the end blending together
no hey hey take off the e snack snack no snack this felt like we talked about
Smok what that would be would put in a seat ock smart well here you'd have a CK
with no II would be a snack right perhaps you enjoyed eating some cookies
as a snack in the afternoon you shouldn't you should probably have a
yeah I'd be healthier okay so here we have snake the long a it was a snake is
a reptile the dog has a tongue shooting out of it no arms no legs it slithers
around most people don't like much s ants na e da in this word II ate
together sounds like e right snah e the K sound sneak what is a snake well
maybe someone told you hey no more cookies for a snack for you stay out of
that cookie jar but you come into the kitchen and you quietly take a cookie
you're sneaking in and you you snuck a cookie you're a sneaky person you you
took the cookie it was sneaking in sneak SM or snore E
is making that o sound long snore snore no really I think if we took the e off
there that word still sound like snore right but we have that long oh and
there's an e there so anyways you know what snore is well we talked about sleep
many people when they sleep they make this sound
when they're sleeping some people is very loud
that's called a snore you are snoring they say you're snoring snore
right please don't snore oh I hope I don't snore I do okay that ends this
lesson thank you for watching and I look forward to seeing you at our next lesson
good bye for now