Daily English - Day 12

Push the air forward in your mouth and quickly lower your tongue to make the sound. This is an unvoiced consonant, so all you need is your breath and to make a short, sharp sound. Watch my mouth carefully and practice along with me. The sound. To make the sound correctly, keep in mind to touch the soft palate above your throat in the back of your mouth. Step two. Push the air out of your mouth, holding it briefly behind your tongue and then releasing it when you lower your tongue to make the sound. This time, you guessed it. It's a voiced consonant, so be sure to get your voice punching through that sound. Watch my mouth carefully again and practice. Now, look at these word pairs and see the difference between the sounds. Back. Bag. Lock. Log. Ankle. Angle. Click. Glug. Curl. Girl. Class. Glass. Cape. Gape. Alright. Let's practice each sound separately. First, the k sound. Come. Kick. Cook. Kiss. Cake. King. Kind. The cook makes cupcakes for breakfast. Karin likes cupcakes for breakfast. Karin likes to fly the kite. He broke his ankle by kicking a rock. Kirsten locked herself out and forgot the keys. The kids are cute. Next, the g sound. Listen carefully and repeat after me. Go. Good. Get. Agree. Guarantee. Green. Gray. Fig. Go get those green grapes. Let's get together. Great to see you again. The gray bag is bigger than the others. Can you guess the beginning of the dialogue? Is that really gold? There's something strange in my bag. She's wearing a white coat. Those girls look pretty. How many classes did you take? Exercise 2. Listen and circle the word that has the underlined part pronounced differently. Generation. Gamble. Gentle. Gender. Guess. Game. Gymnast. Good. Kite. Cooker. Hiking. Night. Mitt. Kiss. King. Kick. Church. Architecture. Child. Chair. Exercise 1. Listen to the sentences and circle the word you hear. Is that really gold? There's something strange in my bag. She's wearing a white coat. Those girls look pretty. How many classes did you take? Exercise 2. Listen and circle the word that has the underlined part pronounced differently. Generation. Gamble. Gentle. Gender. Guess. Game. Gymnast. Good. Kite. Cooker. Hiking. Night. Mitt. Kiss. King. Kick. Church. Architecture. Child. Chair. And now you know how to spell it.