Other class with Nimlot Logan a awesome teacher!! lesson 4

Greeting my friends here i leave you the note that Nimlot gave me, this was the pronuntiation class!! please read and enjoy the class.

Plane - Plan: Learning the /eɪ/ and the /æ/ sounds.

When we say the letters of the alphabet the letter A has the long vowel sound /eɪ/, we say this sound when we pronounce the word 'plane'. But A can also be pronounced as the short vowel /æ/, as in the word 'plan'.

Let's compare the sound /eɪ/ with other sounds and realise the differences:
meat - mate - met
come - came - calm
white - wait - wet

In spelling: We frequently have /eɪ/ with the following letter combinations:
1. a-consonant-e: mate
2. ey: grey
3. ai - wait
4. ea - great

Now let's compare the sound /æ/ with other sounds.
mud - mad - made
sing - sang - sung
pen - pan - pain

In spelling: We frequently have /æ/ with the following letter combinations:
1. a-consonant: cat (But if there is an 'R' after 'A' and this 'R' has no vowel sound after it, the sound of this 'A' will be /ɑː/)

Important observation: In most English accents, these words have the vowel /æ/: ask, dance, task, castle, bath, fast among others, but in South East England, speakers replace the sound /æ/ to /ɑː/.

Exercise:

1. These words all have the vowel sound /æ/. Change them to /eɪ/ using the same consonants.

1. at
2. mad
3. man
4. pan
5. tap
6. ran
7. hat
8. plan

2.  Listen and decide which vowel sound is different.

a. sad - mad- fade - jab
b. far - fat - fag - bag
c. watch - catch - patch - land
d. rain - said - maid- paid
e. case -name - care - fake
f. break - great - heat - weight

I hope you did learn some about this class!! thanks best greetings.
That the power of the light iluminates always your way!!