Welcome to the long vowel sound tutorial for the vowel /​ɑː/.
I'm Micheal Roberts.
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Alright, let's get started!
So the first long vowel sound is the sound
/​ɑː/
Okay.
Pause the video now practice with my mouth, practice getting your mouth in the right positioning.
/​ɑː/
The sound is coming from the back of my mouth
/​ɑː/
My mouth is wide open
/​ɑː/
Okay?
And my lips are fairly unrounded
/​ɑː/
My mouth is relaxed, okay.
You want your whole mouth to be relaxed when you do this.
/​ɑː/
Now just repeat the sound after me:
/​ɑː/
Okay.
So, now let's use some words that we get this sound in, alright?
'Arm'
'Aunt'
'My aunt'
'Bark'
Alright, 'bark off a tree.'
'Heart'
[bu-bum, bu-bum]
'Heart'
'My heart'
'Mark'
Alright, 'there's a mark on my trousers'
'Ark'
Okay, 'this is the ark of a circle.'
There's a place in England called 'Derby'
'Derby'
Alright, that's spelled D E R not D A R. D E R B Y 'Derby.'
Alright, that's one of the typical words in English that is pronounced differently to how it's spelled.
/​ɑː/ 'Derby,' 'I'm going to Derby.'
'Castle'
'I've got a castle.'
'Castle.'
'Father.'
Okay.
'My father is a very good man.'
Okay, now let's put the words into some sentences, where this sound appears a lot of times, alright.
Let's go!
'Barbara parked her car near the castle.'
Now I'm going to say it at a normal speed.
'Barbara parked her car near the castle.'
Alright, next!
'I'd rather take a chance and let my father drive me in his car.'
again.
'I'd rather take a chance and let my father drive me in his car.'
Alright, so there you have some great words to practice using the sound in.
practice go through and practice all of the words correctly, pronouncing the correctly.
Making sure that your lips are in the right positions okay, and then you've got some sentences as well.
So practice then repeating the sentences pausing the video. listening to it back.
Repeating the sentences yourself. recording yourself to make sure that you're pronouncing the sound correctly.
Alright and once you're comfortable with the /​ɑː/ sounds, move on to the next sound below, alright?
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