Unit_v06_[э:r]_curd

How to pronounce The Mid Central Vowel _[э:r]_Stressed

From the link below, Please choose

Vowel -> Monophthongs -> Front

Links to Phonetics: the sound of American English (発音の仕方をこちらから確認)

Let's practice

Words

worm

bird

earth

shirt

turtle

Other word examples

Directions: Read the following words,phrases and sentences correctly stressing the syllable with the mid vowel (э:r).

Initial

earn early,urchin,earnings,urgent

Medial

curd,birth,turn,burn,bird,third,heard,work,word,shirt,purse,curse,hurt,chirp,dirt,girl,pearl,firm,Turk,learn,

nerve,worry,hurry,turkey,purpose,journey,current,church

Final

Sir,were,her,refer,prefer,infer,occur, chirr

Phrases

dirty urchin certain girl

chirping birds turtles and turkeys

heard the word learn to work

hurry to his journey shirt with pearl buttons

Sentences

1. The chirping birds awakened the turtles and turkeys in the barn.

2. Mother worried about the boys as the curfew hour drew near.

3. The little girls made a courtesy at the princess.

4. She gave the dirty urchin some currants and a bunch of turnips.

5. The cart swerved to the corner in a jerky motion.

Tongue Twisters

1. Betty Botter bought some butter, but she said "this butter's bitter! But a bit

of better butter will but make my butter better" So she bought some better

butter, better than the bitter butter, and it made her butter better so 'twas

better Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter!

2.Perspicacious Polly Perkins purchased Peter's product

And peddled pickles to produce a pretty profit!

Article reading

Instructions: Read the article correctly saying the _[э:r]_ sound accurately. Then answer the following questions.

The Buzzard, The Bat, and the Bumblebee

If you put a buzzard in a pen six or eight feet square and entirely open at the top, the bird, in spite of his ability to fly, will be an absolute prisoner. The reason is that a buzzard always begins a flight from the ground with a run of ten or twelve feet. Without space to run, as is his habit, he will not even attempt to fly, but will remain a prisoner for life in a small jail with no top.

The ordinary bat that flies around at night, a remarkable nimble creature in the air, cannot take off from a level place. If it is placed on the floor or flat ground, all it can do is shuffle about helplessly and, no doubt, painfully, until it reaches some slight elevation from which it can throw itself into the air. Then, at once, it takes off like a flash.

A Bumblebee if dropped into an open tumbler will be there until it dies, unless it is taken out. It never sees the means of escape at the top, but persists in trying to find some way out through the sides near the bottom. It will seek a way where none exists, until it completely destroys itself.

In many ways, there are lots of people like the buzzard, the bat and the bee. They are struggling about with all their problems and frustrations, not realizing that the answer is right there above them.

Questions:

1.) What is a buzzard?

2.) What do they have in common?

Exercise 1: Describe the picture below and compare.