Hello everybody. It is me. Jill. I'm here.
And I'm so excited because I found an exercise. I want to show you.
A lot of my students are talking about how important it is,
the pronunciation of sounds. And, you know,
I spend a lot of time talking about rhythm and melody and all of that good stuff
that I love when it comes to communication.
But I know how important pronunciation is for you.
And I've talked about vowel sounds and I've talked about consonants.
So I just want to point something out to you. I think this is really cool.
Let me, uh, let me see. So what are we looking at here?
We are looking at an alphabet chart.
And if I move myself down here, you,
so basically if you look at the top of the screen,
you see the sound here, A, you see the sound E. You see the sound EY.
You see the diphong, AI.
You see the O the AH and the U.
And the reason that these are all on the top of the screen is
because every letter,
when you pronounce the letter belongs in one of these columns.
So it's really cool because if you take the sound A
and you go down, you see A. You see ACH.
You see JA.
And you see KA. You see that. So,
you know, so if your initials are A H J,
the initials of your name, you would want to say that full diphthong. A.
You want to get that sound when
you pronounce these letters. So repeat after me. First, say,
A. And then just the example word is day.
Say day. And
then we'll just go down the row, down the column. I want you to say A. A.
And I want you to glide. I want you to use melody.
I still want to bring that to you. Then say, ACH. So you get that A...
And then a CH. ACH.
And then you're gonna say, Jay. Jay.
So you get the J in the front, and then the A.
One more time.
And then we have K.
So you start with the K sound and you finish with the A. Get it?
It's pretty cool, right? So now, if we look over here,
E as in the word "See." Say that, see.
We get that big smile, E.
And then look at all these letters that have E. We have B,
C, D, and I'm doing a big smile.
So just repeat that after me, B,
C, D,
E, G,
P, T, V,
Z.
When you say letters,
remember to use gliding and moving and holding of the
vowel sound. Let's keep going. EY. EY. EY. Like the word met,
met. F,
L, M,
N, S, X.
Got it? Cool. All right, here we are. This is the, AI. AI.
It's the diphthong. You move through that sound. My. Say "MY".
Good. And then we only have two letters here. We have I,
and Y. Y. Now, remember,
these are the pronunciations of the letters themselves,
not how you would pronounce the sound in a word.
So these are how to say the letters, the alphabet. Here we have. O. Go. O.
And the only sound we have there is, O.
And then we have, AH. As in mom,
and we only have one there. R. R.
Got it? And look at this, the last one. OO,
blue. Q.
Q, right? /k/ /u/ Q
which basically is the U with a K sound in front of it.
So when I say the letter, it's Q.
When I pronounce the word quiet, it's a K and a W.
So don't confuse that. This is just the name of the letter, Q.
And then here W. So,
we get that OO sound. And I just wanted to share this chart with you,
because I think that it's just, it's informative.
And I think it'll really help you,
especially when you say the initials for your name
or the initials for anything else. So good luck. I hope you enjoy it.
Remember to like, to share, and to subscribe to the channel.
And I hope to meet you all sometime soon. BYE!