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The Days of the Week:
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Monday, Monday is spelled with an O, but it is
pronounced as the ‘UH’ as in ‘BUTTER’. Monday.
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Now all of the days of the week, of course, end in
the word ‘day’, and it is pronounced the same
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in each of these days of the
week, with the AY Diphthong.
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Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday.
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Wednesday. Now, Wednesday is spelled
with a D, but that D is silent.
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Wedn-es-day, Wednesday, Wednesday.
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Thursday. The TH that begins this
sound is unvoiced: Th. Thurs-day.
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So with this we have that tricky
UR [ɜ] vowel-consonant mix.
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So we go from the Th straight
to that uurr straight to the zz.
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So in a way, there is no real pure vowel
sound in that first syllable. Thursday.
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Friday. It’s spelled with an I but it’s pronounced
the Diphthong ai, ai, Fri-, Friday, Friday.
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Saturday. Now this is, of course, spelled with a
T, Sat-, but it is pronounced as a D, Sadder.
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Just like ‘I am sad, and now I’m sadder;
it’s pronounced exactly the same way.
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Saturday. Saturday.
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Sunday. Sunday is very
straight-forward, isn’t it? Sunday.
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Now to focus on, how the sound looks in the
mouth, and not just how it sounds to the ear.
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I’m going to step through the beginning
sound for each of these days of the week.
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Here you can see the M sound being formed.
The lips are still together,
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but the teeth are already starting
to separate within the mouth,
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which is why the lips look a little bit pulled.
This is the sound for ‘Tuesday’.
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You can see the teeth are together
to make that Tt, tt, sound
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and the corners of the lips are starting
to come in to make that OO sound.
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And this is the Ww Wednesday sound. As you can
see, the lips have come in to make this OO shape,
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which is critical for correctly pronouncing the
W sound. This is the Th sound for Thursday.
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In this Th sound, the tongue
must come out from the teeth.
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It’s a little bit harder to see here because
my bottom lip is covering up my bottom teeth.
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But you can see that tongue, still,
coming out underneath the top teeth.
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The Ff, Friday sound. Here, the bottom lip is
coming up and touching the very bottom of the top
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front teeth, Ff. And you can see that the mouth is
not completely relaxed because you see a little
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bit of tension in the cheeks
around the corners of the mouth.
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Here we have the ss sound, which begins
both Saturday and Sunday. Ss. Again,
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it is not so clear to see in speaking because
my bottom lip is covering up my bottom teeth.
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They have come together so that the air
can release to make that Ss sound.
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Now I’m going to show the photos in random order,
and I want you to guess, based on what you see,
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what is that beginning sound,
what is that Day of the Week.
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you can see the answers below the transcript.
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