 Hello everyone! Hello! How is everyone doing today? I hope you are having a fantastic Tuesday or Wednesday depending on where you are located. It is Tuesday night here in the Central Standard Time Zone in the United States where I am from. So I will take a look here and see if you guys could just let me know that you can see me and you can hear me. That would be fantastic. Just let me know if you can see me and hear me and I will look at the chat and see who is here and do some greetings. So let's see it looks like we have who was Anna you are the first one to have arrived today. Thank you for coming and gratuitous hello great to see you. May, good morning to you May, good morning, good afternoon, good evening to everyone. Thank you for coming to learn English live where we are going to have a lesson together. My name is Sherry. If you have not met me before I am one of the teachers who provide live lessons on Learn English Live. We also have of course Robin Shaw who provides lessons on Sundays. So let's see who else is here. Thank you Layla for letting me know you can see me and hear me. Hello Layla. Thank you for getting up so early. I am doing well today. I had a fantastic day today. We did not have school because here in the United States it was election day so we all were voting today and so I was able to do some relaxing today. I watched a great program on Netflix. It was a well done show. I enjoyed watching it and Shakespeare you're from Yemen. Hello Dwee. Great to see you Dwee. I see a lot of our WhatsApp group members here. Jose Good evening to Brazil. Brazil is on a similar time zone. They're in a similar time zone to myself. Brand. Hello. Hello again. Good to see you. Raha. Welcome to the live lesson. Vishuda. Welcome. Great to see you again. Samira. Hello Samira. That's a beautiful name. I enjoy that name Samira. So let's see. My name is teacher Sherry and like I said earlier I am one of the teachers here. I also have my own YouTube channel that is called Learn English with Sherry. If you have not already subscribed please check it out and do so. I would greatly appreciate your support and hello Prashant. Good morning. Good morning to you and Natalie. Hello Natalie. Great to see you. So I'm joined in my classroom today with one of my dogs. This is Bitsy. She was my first Chihuahua and she is the just she's my favorite. We're not supposed to choose favorites when it comes to your students or your children or your pets but she is my favorite pet. So great to see all of you. Let's take a look here. We're going to go ahead and get started shortly with the lesson but please let me know. Check in. Let me know that you're here and I hope you are all doing well. We had a great day of weather here as well. It was beautiful, sunny, warmer than usual weather. Last weekend I was outside and I had four layers of clothing on. It was so cold and very windy. Jonathan welcome Jonathan. Great to see you. So I think we're going to go ahead and get started with today's lesson. Today's lesson is going to focus on pronunciation. I know many of you have really been working hard on your pronunciation skills and today we're going to focus on the vowel sounds and to be more specific we're going to focus on the short vowel sounds. So let's go ahead and get started. There are 40 phonemes or sounds in English. 20 of these sounds are vowel sounds. Half, half of them are vowel sounds. Hello, let's see. Welcome. So what we need to think about is that many times students who come to me and want to have lessons will often want to practice pronunciation of the consonant sounds and I understand that especially if there are certain consonant sounds that are in English that are not present in your native language but the vowel sounds they don't get the love they deserve. They don't get the love or the attention and just like a plant they need love too. So we need to make sure that we practice pronouncing our vowel sounds as well as our consonant sounds and that's what this lesson is all about. So let's take a look. I just mentioned how the vowel sounds are not addressed enough during pronunciation work and the thing with vowels is that they are key to helping understand the meaning of the word. The vowel sounds are the meat of words. So vowels add the meaning to the words. If you change the vowel you're going to completely change the word and often the meaning of the word but if you change a consonant oftentimes your listener can still understand what word you're trying to convey. So for example I work with young children every day and one of the main things that I work with with these children is helping them be able to speak clearly. So we are working on pronunciation skills and the thing is that they often will substitute a consonant sound for another consonant. So for example the word cat or as we have here cat young students will often substitute the t sound for this the k. So it'll come out tat but I'm listening and I understand they are saying tat but they really mean cat. But if they were to change the vowel sound and instead of saying the short a and they said the short e and said tat I wouldn't understand what tat meant but tat I could understand tat was cat. So that's an explanation for you of why the vowel sounds are so important to helping listeners understand our message. Hello Michelle great to see you great to see you. So here is another example of the importance of vowel sounds. So we have two words one is with the short a bad and then we also have the short e sound bed and I have here one of my props I use in my lessons. So bed and bad. One sound a vowel can completely change the meaning of the word and make it difficult for your listener to understand your message. That is why we are going to focus on the short vowel sounds today. I've listed actually four of them here. I'm seeing that I missed the u so let me see if I can fix this. I did not add the u sound and we're going to talk about the u as well. I was watching a show when I was doing this so maybe I wasn't focusing quite as much as I needed to. So we have the short a like map the short e as in bed the short i sound as in tip the short o sound as in a like cop and the short u sound a. So let's see you guys helped me finish this slide. What word should we use as an example with the short u sound. We need to make it a short consonant vowel consonant word. Let's have you guys help me out here finish this slide for me. What should we use for an example word with the short u. I'll kind of wait here for a moment and see what you guys say. I'm going to have a quick drink. Remember if you have not subscribed to learn English live please do so. Hit the bell so you get notifications when we go live. All right James that's a perfect word cup. Okay so put uh is a different sound than the uh is a different vowel sound. So we're going to work on cup cup good. U that is a long u vowel sound u is a long vowel sound. We need the uh sound here cut um dwee that that's the aw so that's the short o our our is we need the uh sound here guys uh this is why we're working on this bus great those are all so we have cup cut bus okay michelle yes plumber uh plumber works hot is the ah that is that is not the uh that's not the short u uncle yes uh uncle that is correct so this is why i was saying that we don't give the love to our short vowel sounds that they deserve it's easy to get confused with them so that's why we are going to do this lesson so let me switch here to our lesson and so let's start with our short a vowel sound ah here we go and if we were to do sign language this would be the a hut lucky good cut butt shut yes prashant umbrella you guys got it now upset yes don't be upset for shuta let's let's talk about the short a vowel sound so here is a written description of how to pronounce the short a vowel sound the sound now guys if you are in public i still want you to try i know you might get embarrassed if you're sitting on the bus or on the train but i want you to do these sounds with them with me this is how you're going to improve your pronunciation so let's practice the front of your tongue is pushed forward and held lower in the mouth when forming the short a the sound then with any other vowel sound so this is why it's important for you to make sure you're really opening your mouth when you say ah look at how far my lower jaw goes down ah ah when you say it in isolation you're really going to exaggerate the movement of your jaw ah so this vowel sound is produced in a much different way than all of the other vowel sounds like i said our tongue is held lower in the mouth than any other vowel sound so let's practice ah ah okay i think we're ready let's move on and talk about pronunciation tip two the tip of the tongue will touch the inside of the bottom front teeth so down here ah ah if it doesn't touch it moves towards the teeth the body of her tongue is rounded slightly upward ah you can feel the tongue tip going upwards slightly like i mentioned the jaw is lowered the lips are held apart and the entire middle part of your oral cavity is open wide open so this is a sound ah you're just basically opening your mouth and the air is coming out ah with your tongue moving up just a little bit on the front okay so let's talk about you guys are giving me some great words yes michelle and we rat and hat are nice sounds we're going to go through three words for each short vowel sound and we will have sentences for each one as well so i'd like to give you target words that have the vowel sound in the initial position of the word if possible then we'll do a word in the medial or middle part of the word and also then we will do a two syllable word and uh i thought you were here earlier so i said hello so let's practice the word add okay add say it now good now let's try the sentence i had to add more sugar you can never have enough sugar right sugar sugar one of my dog's names is sugar so she's looking at me right now like she thinks i'm calling her um so i had to add more sugar okay now you guys you try the sentence what would we add more sugar to maybe you want to add more sugar to your tea or maybe i needed to add more sugar to the cookie mixture i was making yes anna i did see you sign in really early okay let's continue remember you need to practice pronouncing these words and sentences and this is basically your this is your lesson so your ability to participate is going to help you improve so let's talk about coffee you add sugar to your coffee donathan i don't drink coffee this is what i drink for my caffeine it's soda and the total sugars 46 grams of sugar um yeah so it's a lot of sugar that's in here it's not good for you it is my vice that's the one thing that i do that i well i probably eat too much too i don't eat as healthy as i should my hat is blue okay so there's a good sentence robin gets mad our word is mad let's practice that again mad mad robin gets mad when you don't follow the rules yes that is true mad so let's practice robin gets mad when you don't follow the rules what's something that makes you feel mad let me know in the chat you can start with i feel mad when what makes you feel mad let's see what makes me mad i feel mad when people are unkind to one another i feel mad when people are unkind that makes me feel mad so i'm gonna just look and see if anyone has anything that they want to share with a sentence well rules are important especially when you have a group of people from all over the world where things can get misunderstood in translation okay so dwee let's look at that sentence i felt mad if someone we need to change the tense of your verb i felt mad if someone has cheated me has cheated me or has cheated on me okay great usage of the original sentence leila i don't want robin to get mad i don't want robin to get mad so i will follow the rules i feel mad when people are unkind to animals raha i get mad when i see some new english words okay robert i get mad when my daughter doesn't make her bed i feel mad when i drop a dish we need to have the article uh when i see people don't follow the laws i get mad samira i feel mad when i see selfish people great sentences guys well done now i want you to say these sentences that you're typing out loud as well when you are typing them i feel mad when my daughter messes up with her toys okay so we need to remove one word from that for shuta you don't need to say messes up you need to say i feel mad when my daughter messes up her toys messes up her toys i get mad if someone breaks his promise or break i get mad if someone breaks his promise or promises i feel mad if someone doesn't respect each other okay so i feel oh i didn't see that bashoota that you said i feed i did not read that okay so here is another word and this is for you superhero fans out there um there are a lot of people who will argue who is the best superhero batman versus superman um and then also marvel versus dc um but anyway batman let's practice that batman and our sentence good okay and i see you guys making your corrections batman is the caped crusader batman is the caped crusader that is a nickname for batman that he's the caped crusader freshant is a spider man fan yeah i do enjoy spider man as well i really i don't know if i have a favorite superhero if i did i would probably have to go with i really love the wonder woman series movies that they've been coming out i like those um and i when i was a kid i enjoyed watching the justice league on tv and they had a wonder woman and i related to her because it was the only female superhero they had as salita you're a fan of batman and gratuitous batman is the best hero awesome so make sure you're saying these sentences sentences out loud batman is the caped crusader okay before we move on to the short eval sound i just need to remind you i am also on instagram learn english with sherry many of you are on my instagram as well thanks so much for your support and i have my youtube channel learning with sherry which is down below and then most recently um i am on tiktok and i just recently overnight i got i think i've up to 600 followers which is amazing because i just started it so that's been going really well um let's see do we pronounce the t sound of the word batman so okay when um when i say batman the t i'm moving right past the t and going to the m now you can say batman but when you are speaking in continuous speech batman the t just is kind of your tongue pushes past because you're moving from the a to the m in batman okay so i hope that helps you understand all right so let's continue with the short eval sound okay so our short eval sound is a more of a relaxed vowel sound the middle of your tongue the middle of your tongue round slightly upward the sides of the tongue may lightly touch the bottom and top of your teeth on the sides here okay so uh uh see if you can feel the sides of your tongue against your teeth uh uh your rights anna batman and batman sound very similar he's a batman i like batman you have to listen really closely to catch those uh let's see so the uh the middle of the tongue is rounded slightly the sides of your tongue will lightly touch the top and bottom side teeth and your lips and jaw are loose and relaxed uh uh it's always great to pronounce a sound several times in succession so when i'm working with students i'll often say uh uh uh uh just so you can get that that feel of where things are so here is our first egg i have my egg here somewhere i use all kinds of toys in my lessons this is like just an example of some of my toys that i use so egg how do you take your eggs people say how do you take your coffee how do you take your eggs so practice that word guys i need to set this down egg egg let me know how do you take your eggs guys i i prefer my eggs scrambled so if anyone wants to make me some eggs i prefer my eggs scrambled my son does a great job making eggs he is our resident chef here he makes eggs almost daily here at our house so let me know how do you enjoy your eggs take another drink here well we'll wait a moment this lesson may run a little late we're not getting through things quite as quickly as i thought twisted eggs ryan you need to tell me what are twisted eggs two half-willed eggs for breakfast ah spanish omelette omelettes are delicious i have never made an omelette i i've tried but i just can't quite get that technique down but eggs are a great great source of protein unless you're allergic because a lot of people are allergic to eggs natalie you just don't like okay and also if you are you know on specific diets then you may not eat eggs scrambled eggs so do we scrambled sc r a m b scramble led scrambled eggs adding cheese yes my my kids really like to have cheese michelle my husband likes fried eggs he will fry himself an egg ah salita had some eggs for breakfast scrambled okay twisted i i assumed that maybe that's what twisted meant okay so let's move on to our next word which is 10 10 now not 10 this can be difficult 10 as in a metal ti and 10 at 10 10 okay may that's not a problem brand 10 he had the strength of 10 men so we have a few eh sounds here ang strength of 10 men 11 yes 11 the second e is been scrambled he had the strength of 10 men this is a saying that is often used when someone is really strong um so if there is an accident and something has fallen on a person oftentimes a person will be able to lift something that is extremely heavy as if they have the strength of 10 men because they adrenaline is going and there's someone who is potentially in a very dangerous life threatening situation so you'll say he had the strength of 10 men so prashant i just answered that i hope that that made sense to you we do have several idioms in the lesson today so you it's a a two for one type of lesson you get the pronunciation work and you learn some idioms as well eggs with mayonnaise is the way to go good afternoon hello okay sounds good samira he got 10 out of 11 okay so let's move on to uh uh fester uh fester the wound began to fester fester let's practice the sentence again the wound began to fester uh now fester is a way to describe a wound that is um is not healing properly and it's infected it's infected fester so you don't want your wound to fester of course fester now i want you to also to recognize the difference when we say the words in isolation by themselves and then also when we say them in the sentence so when it was asked about the word batman um and how we do not enunciate that t sound in the middle due to co-articulation of the different sounds and their influences on one another particularly when we are speaking in running conversation a wound that is that you have an injury an open wound is an injury so you have a cut or a scrape on your body and you have a wound from that it then began to fester which means that it was um infected and so there is liquid coming out of your body and um it's not a good situation so faster versus fester yes that is a great practice to fester faster faster faster ah versus eh and even better practice in my experience has been distinguishing between the eh and the ih sound because they sound very similar even to a native ear ah is is quite different than eh versus ih ah and eh i can are similar but i feel the eh in the ih are vowel sounds that more of my students seem to have difficulty with okay so let's move on to the short i vowel sound now if you would like you can always give some other examples or sentences but at the end we do have some exercises as well so the no festering is not a good thing to have happen um for surgery yes short i vowel sound so let's sound so let's take a look at this the pronunciation tips for the short i vowel sound the ih ih the lips are relaxed and the middle and front area of your tongue is in a higher area of the mouth ih ih so let's let's just take a look at the difference between ah so let's all just say ah with me ah eh ih so your tongue went from a low position in your mouth ah to a mid position eh and now with ih your tongue is even higher in your mouth ih let's say it five times ih ih ih ih great now let's practice some words we have iguana iguana iguana does anyone have an iguana for a pet let me know in the chat if you have an iguana the boy wanted a pet iguana iguana iguana i would not want to have an iguana for a pet i'm not a big fan of reptiles in general i know a lot of people do enjoy having reptiles as pets and they like iguanas hello zaman great to see you yes so do we do you have an iguana let me know if anyone has an iguana i have a friend who used to have an iguana and she would have to buy crickets and they would come to her in the mail so she could feed them to the iguana and they had to be alive right yeah okay don't like reptiles maybe jonathan has one i don't want to have an iguana okay okay reptile dwee has an e on the end i don't like reptiles reptiles es so now let's work on the ih sound bit bit bit bit is the past tense form for to bite bite bit and our sentence the iguana bit me the iguana bit me michelle likes lizards oh gratuitous thank you for the movie recommendation the iguana or the iguana bit me the iguana bit me the iguana bit me try it slowly first and then try to speed up the iguana bit me i hope the iguana didn't bite you there are some iguanas who have pretty nasty bites okay i'll just pause a moment here i'm going to take another drink to see if anyone has any other questions or comments bit see is making me very relaxed right now because she is sleeping on my lap and she's snoring so um having a sleeping pet on you can make you very relaxed it makes your heart rate go down and it also makes me sleepy sometimes hello rod ha hello so i is the short vowel sound i is the long vowel sound and in today's lesson we are just covering the short vowels it would i'm going to do the long vowels next week week oh zelita it's your favorite yes sit and bit are pronounced the same no anna e beat beat and bit the long e is in the word beat b e a t like this music has a great beat okay all right so let's talk about cabin also before we move on i wanted to just say to all of you don't be sorry when you have a question there's nothing to be sorry about that's why we're here he fell in a pit yes and pit is a word that has several definitions a pit could be a big hole in the ground we could also have the pit in a peach a peach pit which is the center stone that's in the pit it's not really a stone but i think it's the seed so here's our next word for it this is our two syllable example cabin it cabin in it okay i'm listening because cabin it it can be pronounced cabin in it's very difficult because the in the are so close here cabin but the word list did have this listed as the so we're going to leave it here cabin in so a cabin is a small home usually small there are some cabins that are quite large but usually a smaller home we went to the cabin for christmas we went to the cabin for christmas cabins are often located in forest areas or near water let's see if anyone else has any suggestions here so pronouncing iguana whether we should concentrate on another valsam which is two a's as well iguana ah so you're talking about focus should concentrate on another valsam the a's ah iguana iguana i'm not sure what your message question is there yes yes gratuitous that is correct cabinet yes that's a tough word cabinet because um if you were to say each syllable james it's cabinet but in running speech it sounds more like cabinet so the often just gets pushed out cabinet we went to the cabin for christmas okay so i hope i i think i answered all those questions basura i'm not sure we might have to uh touch space later but if you can can ask the question again that would be great okay so let's move on to the short o valsam okay so the short o valsam and we're going to have our pronunciation tip for the short o valsam the vocal tract is very open for the production of the short o the jaw is held more open and the back of the tongue is held lower than any other sound in the american english valsam pronunciation very open ah so if you look at ah ah is even further ah ah ah insurance so insurance the i sound yes is the very first letter in i insurance the tongue will touch the inside of the bottom teeth again similar to the a so that the top of the tongue is nearly even with the top of the bottom teeth ah yeah you can feel it touch ah the lips are held open and kept rounded but relaxed ah right at layla what did i miss here okay yes i did address that thank you okay so let's practice ah ah ah ah remember you need to practice these out loud to help improve your pronunciation here we have the word odd odd he was the odd man out he was the odd man out he was the odd man out he was the odd man out this is a saying that means that someone got left out of an activity so for example let's say you had five five guys and they were playing a game and four of them had paired up so there are two and two and the fifth guy was the odd man out um he didn't have a partner it's also a way to just say that someone got left out of an activity he was the odd man out all right so give me some examples of all sounds here guys as we move on through this pronunciation exercise we also have the word pod pod let's practice pod they were like two peas in a pod they were like two peas in a pod cooperation cooperation see i have to really listen myself i can't remember another word has the same pronunciation of odd sod mod hot pot yes pot yes prashant god is definitely perfect so does anyone know what the meaning of they were like two peas in a pod what does that mean ostrich great samara yes they were like two peas in a pod what does that mean stop yes not pot great okay students so let's see leila's not sure shot that reminds me of one of my favorite songs but i'm not going to sing it because we're not supposed to sing on youtube excuse me plus you don't want to hear my singing a lot so the saying they were like two peas in a pod mensur nice to see you here not as correct oxford oxygen yes prashant so two peas in a pod that is like saying that people are very very similar they get along very well they are so similar they get along very well so i would say my daughter callie and her best friend amber are like two peas in a pod they are very close friends they're not very similar in their personalities but they're very close so you could say it as if people are similar or if they are very close because two peas in a pod are close together all right so let's look at our next aw word which is polish now this could be pronounced polish to talk about people who are from poland or i'm sorry you would say polak but um polish people um is a different way of pronouncing it so aw polish is another way samira outstanding is not that's the out sound aw we're looking for the aw sound here polish let's practice in the sentence we need to polish the floors my floors need polished really badly polish we need to polish the floors uh police is actually the uh sound that is the short u sound police is the short u portable mm no aw audible is the uh or diphthong which we're going to talk about at another lesson too no don't be sorry guys don't be sorry possible yes um foolish is the ooh that's the long u sound police police okay so aw we're looking for the aw sound here guys so some other examples would be now i have to like use my brain at 7 44 p.m in the evening so polish abolish demolish ah those would all in in the the l i s h sound as well um any other ideas aw folly this is a folly meaning that it's um a farce you're you're on a um wild goose chase you're doing something that is doesn't make sense folly owls that's the aw sound so those are again some some the owl sound a more so aw aw so top rot cut i like to polish my glass table falling aw yes falling mm-hmm demonstrate dim um no aw you need the aw sound demonstrate that has the uh uh that is the short e and the uh sound the short u and the long a dominik yes bashoota dominik is correct aw bomb yes prashant i know that this is challenging guys i understand that that's why we're doing it robin how could we forget yes samira aw robin i don't know how i couldn't have used him as an example column yes james column so let's talk about the short u vowel sound the short u vowel sound i do have actually on my tick tock i did uh tick tock on the short a vowel sound and um i had someone who commented that the schwa or the short u vowel sound is the most difficult for them so i need to do a video on tick tock for that one as well so here is the pronunciation tip yes ana please do so mm-hmm the body of the tongue is relaxed somatic ah so somatic and sithlita yes um the body of the tongue is relaxed and set low in the mouth and the sides of the tongue lightly touch your bottom teeth the jaw is kept in a neutral position and the lips are relaxed so remember we're doing the uh sound here so uh uh uh uh uh body ah yes that would be the last sound we were working on that's correct ana i'm sorry you were disconnected michelle so ah body polish yes so let's talk about the short u vowel sound the jaw is kept in a neutral position and the lips are relaxed i have that twice okay so let's try the uh sound in some words students you're doing great guys hang in there i know this takes a lot of concentration under under under he received money under the table so this is another idiom under the table my meaning for this sentence was not that somebody is actually going to let's see if i can show you i think i have my table over here hmm i don't all right so it's not that they're going to actually get money under the table you're not handing them money under the table to receive money under the table means that the person was paid money for a service that was just cash and so there wasn't any way to trace it this is done so that people don't have to pay taxes receive money under the table so umbrella yes thunder number yes gratuitous yes it's illegal to receive money under the table uh uh he received money under the table and i'm not talking about stressed versus unstressed in this lesson we're just keeping it as basic as possible so you want another of the uh the short vowel yes we are going to do many other words so the short you vowel sound is used extremely often in the english language very very common son money uh uh money it has the uh sound in it um sun fun money run beach bum beach bum is a term that's used for someone who likes to hang out at the beach a lot a beach bum it doesn't mean they're actually a bum it's just a saying that describes someone who enjoys staying at the beach a runner uh yes us fun gum those are all words that have the uh sound in them bunny i have a bunny right here too that i use in my lessons all the time bunny bun i have a bun here too uh but i had children here in my home today and they've moved my toys so here is a bun all right plum yes my son pasha loves to eat plums so when they're in season i will try to pick one up at the store for him when they are in season okay so let's practice another word we have cut uh cut cut sun and sun yes those are great that's a good good lesson i'm also doing some homonyms and homophones on tiktok as well those have been pretty popular and that would be a good example run sun none sunday sunday sunday sunday that's right so cut cut the fighter had to cut weight the fighter had to cut weight the fighter had to cut weight samir yes butt and shut cup great so the fighter had to cut weight that means that the fighter is going to have about meaning that they're going to fight someone and they have to be under a certain weight depending on what weight division or weight class they are fighting in so if they are 185 pounds and they're supposed to be fighting at 180 pounds they have to cut weight they have to lose the weight that is over 180 pounds monday yes monday is also the uh the short u vowel sound so here we have uh a word that i included because it has the short u it has the schwa sound and it is difficult because they're the a's right it has the a even though it's the uh thursday is not the uh that's the ur sound uh ur diphthong button yes button so banana banana the uh at the end of banana the last a banana banana so you have the first a is the uh it's the stressed banana banana banana right banana so stress in the first uh and then the last a is also a short u but it is the unstressed banana the banana wasn't right banana it's not banana banana i can't even say that buh nan nan nan nan nan is it's difficult right banana so your favorite fruit is the banana excellent so dwee ah that's the short a sound bath is the short a sound flexible uh uh is the that's also the short e we're looking at the uh math ah those are the short short a sounds uh the uh sound here is what we're looking for sudden is another example of a word that has the short u vowel sound umbrella the iguana is the short i i but oh yes the last a in iguana is a short a short u vowel sound yes the banana wasn't ripe i prefer my bananas to be a little overripe so i like for them to have a few brown specs on them not very brown but a few brown specs i it just the bananas are sweeter that way and i prefer to eat them like that okay so students pronunciation of vowel sounds in running speech can be challenging as we've seen during this lesson today most languages have fewer vowel sounds than english and so for that reason it can add another caveat yes yes yes michelle mm-hmm the unstressable schwa the uh dip thongs add complexity to this okay and i just wanted to briefly touch on vowel dip thongs because those came up today right vowel dip thongs are when two vowels are paired together and can make a different sound so we have fun and fan so that's a good example of the uh versus the the eh the ah sound so here we have an example of a vowel dip thong you put the o and the i together and it makes the oey sound it starts with o e oey sound so oil soil foil these are examples of vowel dip thongs i just wanted to introduce that so that we can touch on that in a future lesson so the o plus i makes the oey sound and so yes this is part of why vowels can be complex to learn in the english language all right so we're going to wrap up our lesson with a listening exercise so what we're going to do is i am going to say one of these words yes prashant's coin that's a good example of the oey sound and yes the another dip thong the e a i'm going to say a word and then you are going to listen and then you are going to give the letter of the answer in the chat we will wrap things up with that okay you guys have been great hanging in there thanks so much here is the first word are you ready here we go bed bed place in the chat a or b bed bed i'll wait and see what the answers are here a or b great good you guys are hearing that correctly well done the answer was b bed i want to take a moment to pause and thank you to all of the supporters who are supporting this channel and also the vip individuals who are supporting the channel so michelle and gratuitous and dwee and anna thank you so much for your support of the channel it means a lot it allows robin to continue to provide a lot of free opportunities i guess you do pay a little bit to be here but it just allows a lot of things to happen and we are working on many more things um in the coming months leila thank you for your participation so is that pablo yes it's b b was the answer it was bed bed thank you to all the students all of you so then we have our next exercise which i'm going to say the word i want you to listen closely and choose the answer and put it in the chat okay so here we go we have pin pin pin oh i've been sitting for a bit too long a or b pin a or b mm-hmm yes that is correct a uh thank you bashoota so this is the actual area that i have received i have my master's degree and a lot of my training is on pronunciation manzor yes riam mm-hmm sehib blue good yes pin the answer was a pin versus pan pan is b and we use a pan to cook food pin i have p i n pin this is spelled p e in pen pin is something that you would use to um stick into like maybe clothing you could use like a safety pin that would be p i n okay so here is our next exercise we have a or b please choose and the word is sun sun please post in the chat a or b sun i think this is my longest lesson ever thank you for hanging in there students leila pin and pin um many people pronounce those two words the same way pin and pen it's very i say it the same way pin and pin sun a a a yes are you guys headed out of the ballpark with this one that is correct i did say a sun versus b sin if sin the answer was a sun okay so now to address leila you let the count out of the bag so fill in the blank i wrote with a go ahead and answer in the chat i wrote wrote is the past tense verb for right to write i wrote with a michelle thanks for that i i too felt the last exercise was pretty challenging as well yes now if you wanted to be a tricky student you could say i wrote with a marker right because technically that would work but i was looking for pen or pencil either one yes great work everyone i wrote with a pen so just as a reminder the next lesson will be on the long vowel sounds it will be structured just like today's lesson but we will focus on the long vowel sounds okay so i hope you guys can come back for that it will be next week at this same time and i wanted to just remind you here are some examples of my social media i am on instagram learn english with sherry i have live videos on instagram that i post um i don't go live every day because i didn't go live today but i do go live almost every day very frequently i 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