Vowels and the Following Consonant

Today we learned that ALL vowels are longer before voiced consonants. Many native speakers of English do not know this! But if you give them the list of words and listen, you will see!

We looked at words such as:

bus / buzz

back / bag

buck / bug

ice / eyes

We did a lot of practice in pairs with sentences.

If partner A said "He wants peas," partner B said, "Not carrots?"

If partner A said "He wants peace," partner B said, "Not war?"

Some of us had trouble with voiced th, voiceless th and also with /v/. Don't worry, we will work on these soon. In the meantime, you can watch this funny teacher's video about voiceless and voiced TH sounds. Click here.

Have a great weekend! See you Monday!