168 Go back to /r/ Worksheet Go to /v/ Worksheet /v/ “vain” vs /r/ “rain” Comparison Remember to do articulation exercises before practising the sounds.
- When practising sounds: 1. FEEL (what can you feel your muscles doing?) 2. SEE (look at yourself in the mirror) 3. HEAR (listen to the audio tracks and use the hand-phone to listen to yourself)
You may come up with different ideas to the ones in the boxes. That’s fine! /v/
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Spelling Patterns
FEEL / SEE
“v”: vain, starving, vote
Inside of lower lip touching upper teeth. Lower lip vibrating.
Tongue not moving HEAR Sounds brighter/higher-pitched
You can hear the vibration from the lower-lip touching the upper teeth.
“r” or “rr”: rain, starring “wr”: wrote
The lips can be slightly rounded (optional)
g
The tongue is either curled back or it moves back and up.
Sounds darker/lower-pitched
Sounds a bit like the noise a dog makes.
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Minimal pairs are words that sound the same apart from one sound. The only difference between vain /veɪn/ and rain /reɪn/ is the consonant sound.
Words (minimal pairs in the order /r/ - /w/) 1 vow – row 3 vote – wrote 2 vice – rice 5 vain – rain 7 bevy – berry 9 starving – starring 4 vogue – rogue 6 visible – risible 8 pervade – parade 10 vigorous – rigorous
