 Welcome to learn English live. My name is Sherry and I will be your presenter or your teacher for this evening. So if you could please let me know that you can hear me and you can see me. That would be great just post in the chat so I can see if you are able to hear me and see me. Let me know that would be fantastic. So let's see who we have here. Anna, welcome Anna and Gertrude. You are the first two students here. And let's see who else we have with us today. We have Michelle is here. Hello Michelle and Mohsin. Mohsin, Jonathan. Great to see you Jonathan and Mae. Mae, I know you might be on your way to work. And Alex, nice to meet you Alex. I don't know if we've met before. So nice to meet you. Thank you Gertrude for letting me know. So thanks so much for waiting. I thought I was live and I was talking, talking and I'm looking at the chat and I'm seeing you guys are still talking to each other but you weren't talking to me. So I had to hit that button again. So thanks for waiting guys. It is Tuesday evening and it is 7.04 where I live PM. It is my daughter's 15th birthday but wait she did not arrive until about 8.30 PM. So she's not quite 15 yet. So you receive you 5 on 5. Awesome. And so Alex, good evening Andre. Good evening. Nice to see you. Oh, I love I have spoken to some students at a school in Indonesia and it was a lot of fun. That is definitely one of the places that I would love to travel to is Indonesia. So I hope you guys are having a great day. This lesson is going to focus on pronunciation of the long vowel sounds. Now last week, well two weeks ago, we had a lesson on the short vowel sounds and the short vowel sounds are more challenging typically for non-native speakers to learn how to pronounce. So I anticipate that you may find the lesson on the long vowels to be a bit easier than what you found the short vowel sounds to be. So Alex, oh yes, Alex Ecuador. Yes, now I'm remembering I have a dear, dear friend from Ecuador and I'm hoping to travel there once COVID. Once COVID is no longer an issue. Ecuador is actually the first place I'm planning to travel. So that's fantastic. So let's get started guys. What do you say? We're going to work on pronunciation. This will mean that you are going to need to say the words and sentences out loud as we do the lesson. So please make sure to get the full benefit of this lesson that you are saying these words out loud and then also listening to my pronunciation so you can try and mirror my pronunciation to the best of your ability. Remember to be patient. It is not always going to sound the same. My pronunciation is not perfect either and I've been living here and speaking English my entire life. There are different ways to pronounce the sounds but I am going to try and pronounce the sounds and words in the most neutral accent possible. Okay, so let's just take one last look. We've got, yes, so let's go ahead and get started friends. Thanks for joining. Remember to support Learn English Live. Please attend our live streams. Share about Learn English Live with your friends who are also wanting to learn English. Robin does a fantastic job supporting the community around the world of individuals who want to learn to speak English fluently. So let's get started. So we have over 40 phonemes in English. 20 of these sounds are vowel sounds and I spoke during my last pronunciation lesson about how vowels do not get the love they deserve. They deserve lots of love guys. We need to pay attention to our vowel sounds. We learn them right away but then we get focused on the consonants for a lot of reasons but the vowel sounds are important too. Danilo, hello from New York. Nice to see you. So let's take a look. Students will often want to practice pronunciation of consonants. I often will have people say, hey can you help me work on the TH sound? Can you help me work on the CH sound? And I'm glad to assist students in doing that but please pay attention to those vowel sounds as well. So the long vowels are pretty simple in that they're pronounced by saying their letter name. Long A, A, Long E, E, Long I, I, Long O, O and Long U, U, A, E, I, O, U. One of the first things that you probably learned when you began your journey towards becoming an English speaker. Okay, hello Huda. Nice to see you here. There is a moth that's flying around. Oh goodness. So the long vowel sounds are often the easiest for non-native speakers to be able to identify and then also in turn pronounce. So let's talk about how the vowel sounds are the meat of words. What I mean by that is they are the anchor. Think about it. We count our syllables based on our vowels. That's how we know how many. You look at the vowel. Oh, there's three vowels. Let's count the syllables. They are the meat. They are the anchor of the words. Vowels add the meaning to the words. If you change the vowel, it can often completely change the meaning of the word. So let's look at an example. Next. First, we're going to talk about the schwa sound. The schwa is not a long vowel sound. It is definitely a short vowel sound. It is the unstressed short vowel. It is the most commonly used vowel sound in the English language, but the long vowel sounds are still important. And I see here that I'm going to make a correction here, folks, because I see I did not have a period. Although the schwa is the most commonly used vowel sound. Let's do a comma. The long vowel sounds are important. There we go. That's better. So let's take a look at two words that help us maybe understand a little bit more about the importance of our vowels. We have bead and bide. So I can't hear you right now, but I want you guys to say these words. Ready? Let's say it together. Bead, bead, bide. We change the vowel. It moves from a bead and let's see if I can find a bead. So this looks like a bead. It's actually the top of some perfume, which I'm gonna put some on because you know it's always nice to smell nice, right? Too bad you guys can't smell it. It smells really good. But beads. We often wear beads on necklaces. So my necklace here, there are beads on my necklace. Beads that are on the chain. I will try and find it for you. Here we go. Beads. These are beads. Beads that are on the necklace on the end of my necklace. A bead. Then we also have bide. Long eye bide and that means we're going to bide some time. I'm trying to bide time in this lesson to see if there will be more students that join us. Bide. Okay, so change the vowel. It can completely change the meaning of the word. Alright guys, so remember you can ask questions as we go through the lesson. I'd be more than happy to answer them. We're focusing on vowels and specifically, that's a hard word to say, specifically. Let's practice that word. It starts with the blend, a consonant cluster, the sp, sp, s, f, c, c, l, specifically for syllables, specifically. You try. Specifically. That's a tough word. Specifically, the long vowel sounds are what we're focusing on. However, if you have other questions about vowels, feel free to ask and I'll do my best to get to those answers. So I am no longer drinking the big cans of soda. I am trying to be more health conscious, exercising, and trying to eat healthier because COVID has decreased my activity level and so I need to be more aware of what I'm putting into my body. Specifically, yes, most seen specifically. Okay, so let's get started on the long vowel sound. So Michelle, bide. We're going to bide some time. We are going to try and capture some time, slow time down. You can also bid someone. You can say goodbye. I bid you a do. And then bide would be a form of that. Bide. All right. So long vowels we have cape for our long a, a, cape, cape, the long e, tea, tea. Guys, I don't drink tea. I know that's crazy. It is probably the most popular drink besides water, right? Or coffee. Maybe coffee is. I don't drink to your coffee. I long, I right, I right. Oh, rope, rope. Now you need to be saying these with me, okay? To get the full impact of this lesson. You're saying these words with me. And then the long you is do, do the last a in no, specifically. Yes, you are. That is one of the aspects of co-articulation. You don't say specifically, specifically, you move right over it. It pushes together is a long must be at the second letter. No, you can have a long vowel at the beginning of a word. Amen. Amen is what I would say at the end of a prayer. Amen. That's the long a. It can be the first. Okay, so the long a vowel sound is essentially a two part sound. So this is the description of how to pronounce or produce the long a begin with the tongue pushed somewhat forward in your mouth, but in a neutral position forward slightly neutral neutral meaning it's not high, it's not low. It's kind of in the middle to produce the a then as your jaw closes slightly. The body of your tongue is going to move upward until it is near that tooth ridge. So the tooth ridge is your it's actually called the alveolar ridge, but it's right behind your top two teeth. You can feel it with your tongue and it's bumpy. That's why it's called a ridge. It's similar to the position of the sound when you make a Y sound. Yeah, yeah. So tongue in a neutral position a a a and then it's going to move a a move slightly the front sides of the tongue touch the inside of the top teeth at the end of the sound a a and you know what my tongue doesn't get quite that far a a but it's close. Let's try it again five times ready a a a a a short verse are different than when you do a longer verse. Let's say a a you can get a better feel for the movement if you do the long version a. Okay, let's continue. Here is a word using our long vowel sound and it's something that I don't like. I am not scared. I'm not afraid of spiders big insects really do not scare me. I do not like snakes ever since I was a small child I would have nightmares about snakes falling from the sky actually snakes falling on top of me. I don't know why. So let's practice this word snake snake snake a a snake now I gave you a trickier word because the long vowel sounds like I said are a little easier to produce so snake I am afraid of snakes we've got a couple of different long a vowel sounds here in the sentence I am afraid of not a long a aid afraid there's your first long vowel a sound of snakes all right now let's push it all together I am afraid of snakes I am afraid of snakes are you afraid of snakes let me know guys in the chat box share with me let me know if you're afraid of snakes and we can even make it shorter and more similar to what a native English speaker would say I'm afraid of snakes we would change that to a contraction I'm afraid of snakes so who's afraid of snakes let me know in the chat if you guys are afraid of snakes it's quiet chat today hmm let me know so yeah yes yes so maze afraid of snakes snake yes I am afraid of snakes too even if they are smaller snakes they're still scary to me okay so let's talk about our next word which is train and Jonathan doesn't like snake Michelle I am going to do a lesson on diphthongs because diphthongs can get a bit tricky train train oh Anna is afraid of frogs very interesting so Anna then maybe you would not like this I use my frog all the time with my students with my young students a dwee hi dwee good to see you dwee is afraid of snakes because snakes can bite suddenly yes yes snakes can kill people especially if you live somewhere that you're not able to seek medical treatment quickly yeah Jonathan I wondered that same thing is is it a frog it looks like a frog in the emoji Anna is it not a frog is it a snake let me know so let's talk about this word train train train long a turn a train you can feel it with this particular word you can feel how it is a combination of the two sounds together a train I live near train tracks which it's true I do live near train tracks and maybe I don't know if you guys can sometimes hear during my lives you might be able to hear the train going by I know Robin has when we've had some meetings he's like is that a train yes it is it is less than a block from my house Antonio great to see you very careful with snakes yes a lot of rattlesnakes in the snoring desert yes I imagine so gotta be careful so let's practice the sentence I live near train tracks I live near train tracks and let's try it again even at a faster pace I live near train tracks great well done everyone so good morning shodgy great to see you Anna says yes it's a frog but yes I'm afraid okay well you know it's it's whatever it I'm not I'm not judging no judgment on my part so Michelle you don't see snakes we have quite a few snakes where I live we don't have poisonous snakes so much rattlesnakes there we do have them but not a lot we we don't have poisonous snakes very often so our next word is pray pray and I wanted you to see that there are different ways to spell this long a so we have the a by itself in snake we have the AI train and then we also have the a y pray pray so let's read the sentence for pray we pray for a vaccine for the virus we pray for a vaccine for the virus and let's try it even faster we pray for a vaccine for the virus okay so I am entrusting that you are practicing these words as I'm saying them and you are mirroring my sentences we do we do pray for a vaccine for the virus and there was some promising news yesterday a couple at least here in the United States a couple of different manufacturers have developed vaccines that are about 94% effective and currently the data is showing minimal side effects so that is a wonderful thing the governor in my state actually just released that we're getting we're almost to the point of a full lockdown like what we were back in March because it's it's not not very good where I'm living at currently for the pandemic okay so let's move on to the long e vowel sound the long e vowel sound the tip for this sound is to have your tongue in a forward position again with the body of the tongue near the tooth ridge the tongue is going to be higher in the mouth for this sound than for any other vowel in English so the e the long e vowel sound your tongue is at the highest position in the mouth compared to all other vows you've got aw which is a very low vowel and e which is a very high vowel the highest vowel let's try it again e e you can also feel there's tension in your tongue as well because the tongue is so high your jaw is relatively closed when you pronounce this song e the sides of your tongue are gonna touch the top side teeth during the sound e and you can feel that e my tongue tends to touch more on the right side than the left e cheese yes cheese is a word that uses the long e vowel sound and it's spelled with the double e fantastic cheese the tongue is higher in the mouth like I said earlier for this sound and for any other vowel in English because the tongue is so high we keep our jaw relatively closed this is a repeat of the slide but I wanted just to help you really get this concept that our jaw is pretty closed for this sound compared to like I said the aw and the really open ah the short a vowel sound you have to really open that mouth be yes we be is is it's all about the cheese so I did not use that word though for long e in the lesson here is our first example again I want you to look at both the spelling and we're going to practice the long e beat beat beat so here is a sentence I feel beat there's a couple of different ways that this sentence can be used so I wanted to give you some context so let's say you're actually participating in a competition and you're not doing well you can say I feel beat I feel I'm going to be beat and you could also use this sentence to say I feel beat meaning I feel tired I feel beat when you feel really tired you can say I feel beat so let's try it again more quickly I feel beat okay long e now I could not teach the long e vowel sound without using the word teach or teacher let me back up for a moment we have a question here most of you want to know how I feel beat okay you can feel beat if you are tired you can also feel beat if things are piling up on you and you feel like there's no way that you're going to be able to win in a situation you feel beat okay so what will Robin teach us next so let's slow it down teach teach so different going from eat each little bit different movement there teach what will Robin teach us next now you try okay and let's speed it up what will Robin teach us next what'll Robin teach us next I did it even quick more quickly there what'll Robin teach us next that is one of the effects of co-articulation okay here is a different way to spell the long e the double e just like in Alyssa's word of choice which is cheese weep eep weep now with the ee our lips do spread ee weep so let's just do a little exercise okay let's try aye aye aye a e aye a e you can feel your mouth and how it moves aye e one exercise that I will often do with patients who are at the hospital who have experienced a traumatic brain injury or a stroke we will practice the vowel sounds and we will say ee because you move from the lip rounding with your lips forward to the lips spread it's a great exercise for your muscles in your mouth ooh ee oh Antonio you feel beat from your heart so okay let's take a look at that sentence I feel the beat oh I feel the beat from my heart okay now I understand I didn't read it correctly at first I feel the beat from my heart or you could say I feel the beat of my heart I feel the beat of my heart I feel the beat from my heart either would work yes I since I am now trying to be healthy I've begun exercising again I used to be very fit and I'm trying to get fit again and last night I was doing some exercising that included salsa dancing and other Latin dances and I could feel my heartbeat I'm pretty hard it was racing my heart was racing weep let's get back to this the girl began to weep the girl began to weep what eep weep let's try to a little speedier the girl began to weep now weep is a word that means cry but when you weep you are having significant amount of tears coming out of your eyes down your face weep okay the girl began to weep there's also a tree that's called a weeping willow and I feel they are beautiful trees I don't see them very often anymore when I was a kid I used to like to swing on the branches of a weeping willow so let's now move on to the long eye vowel sound are you guys there are you asleep I don't know there isn't a lot of activity or chatter in the chat box so don't forget to ask those questions the long eye vowel sound now let's take a look at how we pronounce the long eye the long eye which is transcribed here is a two-sound vowel that ends in a brief Y sound I so you're moving from ah ah e I I and is here we'll seen a bunch of tears yes a bunch of tears for weeping I this is my eye and it uses the long I have also on to say it I so let's take a look at a few words at the beginning of the sound the tongue is low and it touches the bottom side teeth so let's get into that position act like you're going to say the long eye but don't say anything yet your mouth opens and your tongue is touching the bottom side teeth then as your jaw closes slightly the body of your tongue is going to move upward until it's near that tooth ridge again similar to the position of a Y sound I I good to see thanks for the wave Alyssa the front sides of the tongue touch the inside of the top side teeth I I and this reminds me here is our first target word that we are going to say so Alyssa and friends that we are going to say right or I right right there is a slang that is I eat I eat which means all right I eat or right or kind of like saying yes do you agree is that okay I eat that's a slang so our word is right let's try our sentence turn right at the evergreen tree turn right at the evergreen tree let's try it even faster turn right at the evergreen tree maybe that was a bit too fast right right and rights can be a direction it can also mean correct lots of things okay now I have a tricky word so I have two words that sound the same but have different spelling we have right as an R I G H T then there is right R I T E which here is our context in our sentence puberty is a right of passage to adulthood hey D nice to see you and Alex there to spell write a third way which would be W R I T E I write my name and I believe I have a video about these words I think I'll have to check I've been doing a lot of short lessons on tiktok and Instagram which leads me to taking a quick break to remind you if you do not already follow me please check out my personal YouTube channel I am putting together some great new videos for learn English with Sherry my YouTube channel it is listed below if you look below the video feed you'll see my social media I have my YouTube channel I have Instagram where I do live videos and I have so well then have shorter videos that are lessons and I am on tiktok as well so you have three different ways to follow me on social media and get access to some lessons and resources so puberty is a right of passage to adulthood hmm are there cultural traditions where you live that are rights of passage if there are please share in the chat box I would love to hear that so for example in the United States the 16th birthday is an important birthday it is the age that most states will allow teenagers to acquire a driver's license 16 so the age of 16 is a right of passage and we refer to it as the sweet 16 sweet 16 so sometimes there will be special birthday celebrations that are very large for usually girls will have a big sweet 16th birthday party and everyone wears very fancy clothing they will dress up for the big sweet 16th birthday party okay so let's move on to our next word which is yes right is a ceremony yes it is a ceremony so if you are at church you have maybe there's ceremonies there you hear about the rights that you receive when you are going to pass away they have specific prayers or rights that they give to an individual who is going to die different religions have different ceremonies of course okay so we have kite kite kite I kite so our sentence here is a sentence that can be taken literally it can also be used as an idiom that is go fly a kite go fly a kite go fly a kite so we could be telling someone go fly a kite like get a kite and go and fly it but the idiom go fly a kite means to tell someone go away go fly a kite I don't want to listen to you right now I don't want to talk to you I don't want to see you go fly a kite it's a nicer way of maybe saying what you would say if you were cursing at someone go fly a kite okay so let's move on to the long oh vowel sound let me get another drink I wish I could give up caffeine but I can't it's I guess I could I could but it's really difficult let's go yes long oh vowel sound perfect so guys for the rest of the lesson let's start to share some words that you think have these but first we are going to practice pronouncing the long oh it's also a two sound vowel that ends in a brief w sound oh you you're round your lips oh oh oh oh oh our lips are rounded with this sound the body of the tongue is pushed back and it's more in a lower to mid mouth position and your bottom teeth can be felt along the sides of your tongue so let's focus on what your tongue feels like oh oh you can kind of feel some tenseness there and you can feel the sides of your of your bottom teeth oh again my tongue touches the right side more so than the left it's not that uncommon to have one side of your body be a little bit stronger than the other oh yes oh sounds like toe row mo so the sound moves into a w sound by raising the jaw slightly and closing the lips into a small circle oh oh yes Antonio the right to baptism the last rights the last rights is what is given to someone who is going to die the last rights and the right to baptism okay so the body of the tongue moves forward upward until it's the tongue is near the back of the hard palate so let me give a little bit of a description let's take the tip of your tongue and push it up against the roof of your mouth and if you push it up at the front of your mouth it feels hard that's your palate the roof of your mouth the top of your mouth is called the palate towards the front it's hard bony there's bone there from your from your your jaw and and basically your mandible and maxel that's hard if you push your tongue back scrape the tip of your tongue back towards the back of your mouth you feel that it's not as hard anymore the tissue becomes more soft that is the soft palate towards the back of your mouth is the soft palate on the top and then towards the front it's a hard bony piece and that's the hard palate so the body of your tongue moves upward until the tongue is near the back of the hard palate oh oh okay so here we go we are going to practice some words let's start with the word note note note I got in trouble for passing a note I got in trouble for passing a note I did when I was in school I did get in trouble for passing notes that was something that I enjoyed doing with my friends was passing notes of course now the kids don't pass notes they text each other on their phones secretly some kids can text from their phone with their phone in their pocket and they can have their hand in their pocket and text without ever looking I think that's crazy but they can do it our next word which is spelled with a different see here we have note which is the oh another letter the consonant plus e then we have o w row row were you at the end of the row let's practice that or oh row this is a tough word guys the R is hard to say row row you're going to feel your lips row move twice or oh because it starts with the or which there's some lip-browning then it's gonna move to the oh and then the w that's at the end row that's a tough one were you at the end of the row let's try it again were you at the end of the row okay guys you're doing great we are near the end you can do it our next way to spell the oh sound is with the oh a phonemes coat coat coat coat so round and rough coat round oh ow and rough different those are different so you're looking at with rough that is a short you vowel sound rough ow ow is a dip thumb out coat coat so we have coat wrote boat moat tote tow go so bow he needs a new coat I think I want to buy a new coat for winter this year okay so now let's move on to the long you vowel sound oats yes oats who eats oats for breakfast my good friend he's always saying he had oats for breakfast and I'm like hmm I know creamed wheat used to be popular when I was young and then oats as an oatmeal is popular yes Michelle low and so hello Layla good morning Layla you are not too late you are here low and so would definitely apply to that sound oh Alyssa do you like to eat oats for breakfast let me know what do you guys like to eat for breakfast what do you eat in your country you know what I have this morning I had a half of a slice of pumpkin pie that was my breakfast gratuitous you love oats good morning Layla I had pumpkin pie for breakfast I like pumpkin pie I made some pumpkin pie for my daughter's birthday meal that we had last night okay so let's talk about the long you and how to pronounce the long you sound it is a two sound vowel that is similar to a Y sound followed by an OO sound so you you nasi goring for breakfast Anna please explain to me what that is what does that consist of Michelle you eat okay so you would say I eat toast you don't need to add the s to make that plural it's just toast whether you eat one slice or two slices you can signal exactly what it is by saying I I have two slices of toast I have toast okay you yes you that comes from a song that I like to listen to you it's a fun dance song bread oats fruits eggs and orange juice gratuitous you're making me hungry and of course Layla eats cheese and oats Alyssa do you have cheese for breakfast my kids like to make scrambled eggs scrambled eggs so you crack the egg into a bowl you scramble it and then as you are cooking it on the stove you add cheese to it that's what they like so the long you begins with the jaw mostly closed the tip of the tongue is very close to that tooth ridge again mostly closed don't say the sound but just place your mouth as if you're going to say the sound and you can get a feel for where they're talking about there fried rice okay okay no problem Anna fried rice excellent the sound transitions into the sound from you by closing the lips into a small circle you while lowering the front of the tongue so let's feel that you okay you can feel that tongue lower you at the same time as the front of the tongue lowers the back of the tongue rise raises you you okay I can feel that let's try it you you you a little different than you it's good to elongate these vowels when you're practicing them so you can really feel what your mouth is doing okay do we you like that as well yes we go through a lot of eggs at my house a lot of eggs oh Laila thank you I really enjoy our lessons every week thank you so much for you guys that you are supporting us here and I appreciate it so at the same time as the front of the tongue lowers the back of the tongue raises so Alyssa likes scrambled eggs mixed with cheese as well or do you go through a lot of eggs at your house Alyssa because we do I buy 18 eggs and sometimes that doesn't last a whole week but I do have four hungry children at my house teenagers and my oldest is 21 so they eat like there's no tomorrow have you ever heard of that phrase eat like there's no tomorrow or drink like there's no tomorrow yeah they eat like there's no tomorrow youth flute yes Anna yes those are great examples of words that have the long you so our word is unicorn unicorn here's an example of a word that has the long vowel sound at the beginning of the word unicorn unicorn when I was young I liked unicorns I did there is a movie that's called legend or no maybe it's labyrinth hmm I'd have to remember but there are unicorns in this movie the actor's name was Tom Cruise he was very young then now he's not but he in this movie it was a fantasy film and there were unicorns and the unicorns were being hunted for their magical horns suit suit ooh suit hmm we're talking about you the long you sound here if it was suit then it would be the long you but it's ooh suit so that's different okay Irish oats hmm what are Irish oats Antonio I'm not familiar with that whenever I hear Irish added to anything I always just assume that maybe it means there's alcohol added that's probably not an appropriate thing for me to think but maybe there's Irish oats meaning that the oats are grown in Ireland that could be if you can describe that to me I'd appreciate it unicorn cute cute cute cute the puppy was cute okay Alyssa yes you are a fabulous unicorn huevos rancheros and jerky beef excellent that is your breakfast okay oh boat is the long oh sound Layla we did study that earlier and you've got me you've got me curious here so I'm going to take a look at something one moment I want to see I'm just looking at a word here talk amongst yourselves about what you like to eat for breakfast I will tell you my breakfast varies but okay so I I like to eat sweet things for breakfast that is a downfall of mine um because it's not good for you so suit is a long you sound suit is the long you I wanted to confirm with that suit fruit root the long you the puppy was cute so that is our sentence let's practice that sentence the puppy was cute cute ha ha Layla thank you Antonio you roasted your own green coffee that's amazing Jonathan likes eggs with cheese as well is that cheese Jonathan your you have a cue there so I'm kind of not sure okay Michelle okay we need to fix your sentence I am the most old people let's change that to make that grammatically correct okay let's change it to say I am the oldest pupil oldest that would be the correct way to say that you could also say I am the wisest pupil because you have lived more years and you've gained wisdom Antonio loves spanish spinach omelets too okay our next target word is rude rude rude rude I find rude people annoying I find rude people annoying and this is a true statement which is another word that has our vowel in it true I have a few pet peeves a pet peeve is something that you find annoying you do not like and it would be things like nails on the chalkboard that sound that's a pet peeve I don't like rude people I get frustrated when I see people being rude for and there isn't a reason to be rude and Gertrude says that she wins the award for the oldest pupil here I don't know that you guys would have to have to figure that out amongst yourselves okay so we're going to wrap things up here we're going to do a few activities at the end just a few practice words but pronunciation of the vowel sounds in running speech can be challenging we do know that uh thank you yes Leila and on the flip side I've been a student and I've had some teachers who could be pretty rude to students as well so it can work both ways most languages have fewer vowel sounds than English so for that reason it adds another layer of complexity to learning the English vowel sounds so let's practice this sentence I want to get the blue tool we have the long u sound twice blue tool I want to get the blue tool okay here's our next one read this out loud or repeat after me I should have closed my eyes I should have closed my eyes I should have closed my eyes I should have closed my eyes my children say this to me if we have one bathroom in our house and four kids so there are times when someone needs to come in the bathroom and you're in there and they'll come in and I'll be getting out of the shower or something before I grab and they say I should have closed my eyes right so yeah I remember when I was a kid and if I saw my parents I would say the same thing so I should have closed my eyes we are going to condense that into a contraction should have okay so now let's do an exercise this is where you are going to participate students so let's listen we have two words and I am going to say a word you are then going to put the letter of the word in the chat box are you ready let's give it a go your word is read read read is it a or b read so apparently gratuitous is older than Michelle read have some answers coming in here Miriam great to see you thanks for being here okay it sounds like we have a lot of winners here yes the answer is b read we have the long i in letter a ride and read ride read read ride if you say them quickly they do sound somewhat similar ride read ride read don't read while you ride your bike Jonathan that would not be safe here is our next exercise we have two words please choose a or b here we go pony pony pony so did I say a or b pony there's a song that I like to dance to that has this word in the title good here are the come the answers thank you Antonio for explaining that yes everyone the answer is a pony pony and moving on we have a or b cry cry cry a or b don't cry I probably say that at least once a day at my school because my students are three four five and six years old so there's usually at least one child crying during the school day yes gratuitous is the wisest well she should be the more years you have the more you should learn from life right yes the answer is a cry cry okay so let's fill in the blank I would like for you to use a word in the blank that has a long vowel sound I'm not looking for one specific word I want you to come up with a word that has the long vowel sound yes Layla I would agree when there sometimes it's hard to not feel sad when you hear someone crying oh myriam try don't cry I love that that's awesome I always try to validate my students feelings because they're crying for a reason they're expressing something so when people always say don't cry don't cry well that's their expression that's how they're feeling so I try to validate those feelings first and then try to help them feel better it does not have to have six letters I just use that amount of blanks any word that is appropriate for the sentence that has a long vowel sound in it he is a cute baby yes and Layla you gave two words so that's fine too he is a cute baby we've got cute with the long you and baby has the long e at the end baby so Michelle it can be a word with any amount of letters as long as it has one long vowel sound in it he is a I'll tell you what word I was thinking of when I wrote this sentence okay Nirmala welcome thanks for being here Nirmala that is there is not a long vowel sound in either of those words we need a long vowel sound a e i o u mad man two short vowel sounds Antonio success success those are two short vowel sounds as well makes sense but you need a word that has a long vowel sound Michelle he is a geek yes that has a long vowel sound it is spelled G E E K double E and I always tell my children that nerds rule the world nerds or geeks geeks rule the world geeks are very smart individuals rude guy he is a rude guy that's appropriately that's an appropriate to those two words are appropriate he is a geek yes Michelle rude guy I'll wait just a moment to see what else we have my lesson is going long today students I apologize for that so are you let's see here looks like my video stream is lagging are you guys able to see me and hear me okay it looks like everything's fine nice child that's a great one I long eye he is a nice child okay so Alex doctor ah that's a short short vowel sound I was thinking creep he is a creep E long E he is a creep of course none of you are creeps all right so let's continue thank you so much for coming to the lesson today I will continue to wait just a moment to see if anyone else has a word that they want to add to this sentence and reminder to you I do have my Instagram which is listed here learn English with Sherry I am also on TikTok and finally I do have my own YouTube channel learn English with Sherry and cheese lover yes where did she go where did Alyssa go that's great Anna I will be uploading a video a cooking video I made a meal last night that was delicious they had a lot of cheese in it and I will be uploading that to YouTube maybe even this evening so thank you so much for coming I appreciate it and I hope that you found the lesson helpful to you and keep practicing be patient with yourself don't compare your journey to becoming an English speaker to anyone else's journey everyone's journey is different and that's okay you're you're welcome Alex and so you said thank you very much for helping me to learn English I'm not sure what Divertito is thank you so much I'm working on my Spanish myself Alex you're welcome Alyssa ah okay and yes where is sleepwalker I have not seen sleepwalker at my lessons for a while HD is a sleepwalker and thanks guys welcome and I hope you have a great week I'll see you soon take care and be kind to one another goodbye everyone