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How to pronounce Voiceless Labio-Dental Fricative [f]
Links to Phonetics: the sound of American English (発音の仕方をこちらのリンクから確認)
Pink: relatively lower priorities
Red: High priorities
Let's practice
Words
flag
fox
dolphin
flower
frog
Other word examples
Directions: Read the following words, phrases, sentences and tongue twisters correctly
saying the voiceless labio-dental fricative [f] accurately and distinctly.
Initial
face, fact, fail, faint, far, faith, fall, feed, free, fuel, floor,fence, food, five, fly, four, film, farm
Medial
afford, coffee, refuse, affect, affair, careful, office, offer, sofa, soft, telephone, biography, photography
Final
beef, brief, reef, roof, thief, belief, relief, staff, safe, chef, golf, tough, cough, enough, leaf, deaf, laugh, graph
Phrases
fair play fish out of water
fancy free all fingers and thumbs
fair and square fly off the handle
finger lickin' good forbidden fruit
fit as a fiddle
fair play---refers to sportsmanship
fancy free--- Without any ties or commitments.
fair and square---Honest and straightforward, especially of business dealings.
finger lickin' good----Excellent - especially of food. Known primarily as the slogan of the KFC food chain
fit as fiddle---Very fit and well.
fish out of water---Someone in a situation they are unsuited to.
all fingers and thumbs---Clumsy, unable to hold things steadily in one's hands.
fly off the handle---Lose self control.
forbidden fruit---A prohibited article.
Sentences
1. Fond of bog game hunting,Fred,Philip, and some friends went on a safari to Africa.
2. A photocopy of the bibliography is on file at the office.
3. Baseball fans climbed the fence around the diamond field.
4.They had fun at the food court with frosted fruit juice,mocha fudge and french fries.
5. Without fear of heights,the cliff hangers expertly grasp the face of the rocks.
Tongue Twisters
1.There was a fisherman named Fisher
who fished for some fish in a fissure.
Till a fish with a grin,
pulled the fisherman in.
Now they're fishing the fissure for Fisher.
2.Fresh French fried fly fritters.
3. I’m not the Fig Plucker nor the Fig Plucker’s son,
but I’ll pluck your fig’s ’til the Fig Plucker comes.
Exercise 1: Pictures
Instructions: Identify the following pictures with the / f / sound.
Exercise 2: Vocabulary Test
Test I
Instructions: Underline the correct word that corresponds to the sentence.
1. Chase met Jeff's _______ (wife, wipe, whip) last night at the party.
2. When her friend died, Serena was in deep _______ (grape, grief, grip).
3. She is a good catch, she's a diamond in the _______ (raft, rough, rapt).
4. Batman was hanged by The Joker on the _______ (clip, cliff, cleft).
5. I feel _______ (safe, sift, sip) when I'm when someone older than me.
Test II
Match the words in column A with the meanings in column B.
A B
1. fiber a. excessively agitated; distraught with fear or other violent emotion
2. profit b. having or revealing stupidity
3. puff c. breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted
4. foolish d. the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time
5. frantic e. coarse, indigestible plant food low in nutrients; its bulk stimulates intestinal
peristalsis
f. a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
g. disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter
Test III
Listening Test
Instructions: Listen carefully` as the teacher reads series of sentences.
Fill in the blanks the appropriate word to complete the sentence.
1. _______ (Flying, Plying) across the country is a fascinating _______ (peeling, feeling).
2. He made me believe he was a _______ (fool, pool), he _______ (played, flayed) his role really well.
3. I have a _______ (frying, prying) _______ (fan, pan) which I often use.
4. Anna _______ (piddles, fiddles) her violin really _______ (fast, past).
5. Tons of _______ (files, piles) were on his desk _______ (for, four) approval.
Exercise 3: Article reading
Instructions: Read the article correctly saying the / f / sound accurately and underline
the words with the / f / sound. Then answer the following questions.
A man found a cocoon of a butterfly, that he brought home.
One day a small opening appeared he sat and watched the butterfly for several hours. It struggled to force its body through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could and it could go no farther.
So the man decided to help the butterfly. He took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon. The butterfly then emerged easily, but, it had a swollen body and small, shriveled wings. He continued to watch the butterfly, he expected that, at any moment, the wings would enlarge and the body would contract. Neither happened!
In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a swollen body and shriveled wings. It was never able to fly.
The man acted with well-intentioned kindness but he didn't understand the consequences. The restricting cocoon and the struggle required to get through the tiny opening, were nature's way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly once it achieved its freedom from the cocoon.
Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our life. If we were to go through life without any obstacles, it would cripple us. We would not be as strong as we could have been and we could never fly
So the next time you are faced with an obstacle,
a challenge, or a problem, remember the butterfly.
Struggle a little - then fly!
Exercise 4: Role Play (Picture Descriptions)
Instructions: Create a story out from the given pictures.
