When practising sounds: 1. FEEL (what can you feel your muscles doing?) 2. HEAR (listen to the audio tracks and use the hand-phone to listen to yourself)
/ʧ/ “chore”
Spelling Patterns
Usually “ch”: cheese, achieve, each f
sometimes “t”: nature, righteous /ʃ/ “shore”
“ch” in non-native words: chef, brochure, crèche
often “ti”: information, collection Usually “sh”: she, cash
FEEL
1) Tip of tongue firmly touching gum ridge.
2) Tongue tip moves down and air explodes out.
1) Tongue tip not touching gum ridge.
2) Air moves past the tongue continuously.
HEAR
The sound starts explosively.
The sound starts softly.
The highlighted words are all minimal pairs. These are words that sound the same apart from one sound. The only difference between chore /ʧɔː/ and is /ʃɔː/ is the consonant sound.
Words (minimal pairs in the order /ʧ/ - /ʃ/) 1 chore - shore
