A1-PRONUNCIATION: /ɜ:/ sound

How do you pronounce ir in the word girl? 

We don't pronounce it /girl/ but /gɜ:l/

It is important that you pronounce correctly the sound /ɜ:/

Watch this video to learn how to pronounce this sound 

Practice with the following words: 

ir   sir, first, bird, thirty, birthday, thirt, third
ur  nurse, turn, thursday, hurt
er  germany, verb, person, her
or  work, world, word 

A1-PRONUNCIATON: Word stress in two syllable words

As we have studied in class, English words can be divided into Syllables and there is always a syllable in a word that carries the stress. 

This time we are looking at stressed syllable in two-syllable words. In these types of words the stress can be on the first syllable, (u-gly), or on the second (for-get).

We also studied that, generally speaking, adjectives (u-gly) and nouns (ta-ble) have stress on the first syllables. Verbs, on the contrary, have stess on the second syllable (for-get). 

Watch this video to practice word stress. Follow these four steps: 

1. When the words appear stop the video. 
2. Say the words you see on the screen. 
3. Decide which one is different.
4. Play the video again and check.