hello i'm jill at ingvid and today we have a pronunciation lesson on two consonants
v and w okay uh now i found that some of my students um get a bit um confused about these two
uh sometimes they don't make the difference between them so i just thought a lesson on
this would be useful so let's just take one at a time and i i will just demonstrate uh how how you
shape your mouth to produce each letter okay so the letter v that's v that letter um i don't have
a board to write it on so the that's the sound of it i say v that's the letter of the alphabet when
you say the letter but when when you're saying it is part of a word the sound is usually just
so you can see that what i'm doing is i'm putting my top teeth
on my bottom lip almost biting into my bottom lip and making a sound with my vocal cords and
so it's a bit like there's a bit of vibration in it as well because the vocal cords vibrate and
like that so that's quite a useful thing to practice um i i notice with students who don't
usually pronounce this letter they find it quite difficult to get a long continuous sound like
and it sounds a bit like a bee buzzing or a wasp or something like that some sort of insect
so don't worry about that but it's quite a useful exercise to just get used to making the sound of
the like a word like van he was driving a van so that's what you have to do top teeth on bottom lip
and get a bit of sound coming through a bit of vibration
like that okay so that's that letter but let me also explain the other one that it sometimes gets
confused with which is w which is that one w okay you'll see them written down shortly
because i'll be showing you a list of words but with w it's the sound of that w is the
name of the letter in the alphabet but the actual sound uh the way you shape your mouth for it is
so you really bring your lips together as if you're going to kiss somebody or a bit
i always think it's a bit like a fish going up to the surface of the water to get a bit of food
that's floating on the the surface of the water like that so if you think of a fish doing this
with its mouths that's the shape for what what what wha wha like that okay so you can tell
that the two letters are quite different in the way you shape your mouth to make the sound okay
right so i think what we will do now is have a look at some words containing those letters
and so let me just get that up on the screen okay so here is a list of words containing the letter v
so first of all then let's have a look and if you'd like to say the word after me
um to practice it so let's look at the first one so advertise advertise so
like that advertise okay if you'd like to say it after me advertise
advertise okay and then the next one advice
advice so every time you say this letter you have to put your top teeth on your bottom lip
there's no sort of shortcut you have to do that every time advice add this okay
and then the next one advise advise say it after me advise okay and the next one arrive arrive
arrive okay and then avoid uh void okay so i hope you can actually feel you know you can feel your
teeth on your bottom lip you need to feel that if you're not actually looking in a mirror to check
what shape you're making you can feel it with this one but but you can feel your teeth on your lip so
that's what you need to feel when you're saying this sound okay let's carry on then so next word
is deliver deliver your term deliver okay and the next one ever ever okay next one interview
interview okay remember you can also put the video on pause if you want to stop stop the
video for you to say it a few more times before we go on so interview okay and invite invite
okay and the next one over over
okay next one remove remove you might find it it's quite difficult sometimes
to make the contact of your teeth with your bottom lip but you just have to make yourself
do it just to get used to it if you're not used to doing this sound remove remove
and then we've got words beginning with v which i think are a little bit easier because you just
get it at the start of the word you get it get it over with if you like
so you can put your teeth on your lip ready before you make any sound they can see
very okay good next one victim
voice and volunteer volunteer okay so i hope that that's a helpful exercise for you
right so now let's go on to w then here are some words with w in them so just to remind you it's
like that what what what like a fish okay
so you really pull your lips together uh it's called pursing pursing your lips
like that okay so here we go say it after me again so always always okay awake awake
and away a way so what happens with some people depending which country they come from
uh some people might put a v sound here instead of a w um i'm i'm not going to do it because that
would be a bad influence for you but i hear people saying away but they say it with a v sound instead
of a w sound so that's why i'm doing this lesson to to help to clarify which is which okay so a way
away okay and then we've got the words beginning with w which should be a bit easier again because
you can get into the position before you make a sound so walk walk okay want want
way way okay and say each one after me each time so we
wednesday this is a funny word because it looks like wednesday but it's just pronounced in two
syllables wednesday wednesday so it's much shorter than it looks okay and then week week
were were okay good and then now these are spelt w h but there's no difference really to the sound
so um i've just grouped them together uh just you know because it it they all come
together under that category so these are all um in fact these are all question words
it's interesting that all the question words begin w wh so here we go what
why y okay and the next set will
will so that one you have to pull your mouth back again as soon as you've done the w to get the
it it so will will okay some of them are more difficult than others because of having
to change the shape of your mouth part way through the word okay next one window window
would would okay good so i hope that's been a good exercise for you now because i've been rather
exaggerating um this pronunciation just to give you a really clear idea of how to do it
um of course when people are speaking normally um they're not going to be exaggerating
in the way i've been doing so what i'm going to do uh is just to go back over the words
i'll say them once you don't need to repeat it after me each one i'll just say them in a
normal way well normal for me anyway and just the way i would say it you won't be able to notice
it so easily but this is the normal way of saying the words so i'll just go quickly through
uh the words in a normal way um okay but hopefully you'll be able to tell
the difference as i do it okay so let's do the v first here we go
advertise advice advise arrive avoid deliver ever interview invite over remove
vacancy valid than ventilation venue very victim view virtue vision visit
voice volunteer okay that's these and then on to the w's
walk want was wash way we weather wednesday weak welcome well went were what when where which why
will window wish with wonder would word world worry would
okay right good so now we have some sentences and what these are is a mixture of v and w so
you have to be able to switch between the two so this is quite a sort of acrobatic exercise for
you now you've got to do both and you've got to switch okay so let's um let's have a look at these
so right first one so i'll say it first for you to listen and watch watch my lips okay so
we were unsure whether our visit would be welcome okay do you want to just try that
okay and i'll say it just once more we were unsure whether our visit would be welcome
okay right and the next sentence
i'll say it first we wish this venue had a window with a view for you
okay and once more we wish this venue had a window with a view once more for you
okay right next sentence we were having a variety of weather
and again from me we were having a variety of weather you again
okay good right and then this one which we can all agree with why won't this virus go away
and again from me why won't this virus go away
okay and the next one quite a long one this okay so i'll do it first
i wonder why the visitor avoided walking through the wood your turn
okay me again i wonder why the visitor avoided walking through the wood your turn
okay good and finally the delivery van arrived when we were away last week your turn
me again the delivery van arrived when we were away last week you again
okay right so i hope that's been a useful session and if this is something you need to work on these
two consonants or one of them or to make sure you don't get them mixed up you might want to watch
this video several times or write things down and practice them at home yourself in in spare moments
and i always recommend have a little mirror for this kind of thing so you can look at yourself
when you're speaking to check the shape you're making with your mouth
so that's a good thing to do when you're trying to pronounce something
um correctly because the shape of the mouth is what makes the sound sound the way it does okay
okay then so i hope that's been a helpful session and so that's the end of the lesson for today
uh so um all the best and look forward to seeing you again soon okay bye for now then bye bye