DO & MAKE - How to talk about housework in English

Hi, my name is Ronnie.

Today I'm going to help you out with some difficult pronunciation.

If you don't have P or F as separate letters in your alphabet, so I know if you're from

Korea or Japan or a lot of Asian countries, your language doesn't have a separate P or

F.

So I'm here to teach you how to say them, yay.

The first one we're going to go through is P. When you want to make the P sound, you're

going to press your top and your bottom lips together, and you're going to push the air

out of your mouth.

So just practice trying to go P, P, P. P is voiceless, which means it does not vibrate

in your throat when you go P. There is no vibration in your throat.

So just try that to practice the sound P. Good.

The next one that we're going to contrast this with is the word or the letter F. This

is a beaver.

A beaver is an animal that lives in North America, and on the back of our five-cent

coin in Canada, we have a beaver.

The beaver is also the national animal of Canada, so if you get a chance, you can come

to Canada and search for beavers, and you can eat beaver tails, oh yeah.

So to make the F sound, I like to tell you to act like a beaver.

What's significant about a beaver is that it has very big front teeth, so when you want

to make the F sound, I call them your beaver teeth.

Stick out your beaver teeth and make sure they go over your bottom lip, so you're going

to look like this, beaver face, good, okay.

So with your beaver face, you're going to be able to now pronounce the sound F. When

you make the F sound, the air comes over your bottom lip and out your mouth, so it's like

F.

This one, your teeth must be inside your mouth, this is P, and this is F. You don't have to

put your entire chin or mouth, don't eat your chin.

It's a slight exaggeration for the beaver teeth, but it's more like F. If your teeth

rest on top of your lip, that's good, because you don't want to be walking around going

like that. People might think you're strange.

So we're going to contrast, which means fight, with the P and the F. So the first word we

have for "p" is "pan." A pan is something that you can use to cook with. It's very shallow.

We say a lot of times that it is a fry pan, so a fry pan we would cook eggs or bacon in.

In contrast to the P sound, we have "fan." A fan is a machine that looks like a flower

or an air ventilator. What it does is you turn it on and it moves all the air around

in your house or in your room. We use these a lot in the summertime because it's very

hot in Toronto. And the fan pushes the air and cools you down.

So we have "pan" and "fan." Pan, fan. Don't forget your beaver teeth.

The next word we have is "pace." Pace means the rate at which you move. For example, if

I was a runner, I would have to keep a steady pace so my movement would be timed perfectly.

So the next word we have that sounds like this is "face." Everyone has a face. Oh, I

can draw a picture of a face. Yay. I am such a good artist. Can you tell? My beaver.

So this is a face, and this is pace. Pace, face. Let's do the next one under the P. This

is the word "pat." Pat has two meanings. The first one is a person's name. It can be

male or female. If it's female, it's Patricia, and if it's male, it's Patrick. But we shorten

it and say "pat." The second one is a verb. The verb "pat" means to touch an animal.

So I can pat the cat. A lot of the times we say "pet" the cat, but it also means "pat"

the cat, to touch it. We have another name. This is only for men, and this name is "peet."

So we have "pat" and "peet." And the last one in the P category is "put." Put we use

in so many different ways. It's so hard for me to tell you just one example of the word

"put." But for example, I can give you one. I can say "put on." It means to wear. So I

put on my clothes. The F words, not the bad F word, but some F words are "fat." Santa

Claus is very fat. Artist. Yay. Fat. Then we have "feet." Feet are always plural. Wow.

I think I should go to art school. And feet are the things at the bottom of your legs.

And we always have to speak about both of them are "feet." Singularly, we say "foot."

So "foot" is singular. It means one. I can draw one foot, maybe. That's a very small

foot. It's very nice. And "feet" are always two. Oh, I can draw cartoon feet. Here we

go. So you have to remember that "feet" is plural and "foot" is singular. So feet, foot.

So let's go back where we left off. We have "pat," "fat." Then we have "peat," "feet."

Next one we have is the word "put," "put," and the singular of "feet," "put." Put, put.

I hope you had a pleasurable time and were fascinated by learning the pronunciation of

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