Error #2

 Error #2

Pronounciation of  /ɜː/

The neutral vowel  /ɜː/ is often mispronounced by spanish speakers because there is no similar vowel sound in Spanish and causes conufusing in the spelling.

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Exercise #1

Instructions:

-Listen carefully the video and list ten words that you heard in the video, then mark in the word where the sound  /ɜː/ is pronounced.

Enlist the words:

1-girl

2-nerd

3- earned

4- urged

5- first

6- shirt

7- early

8- bird

9- work

10-burned

Exercise #2

Instructions: in the following exercise I will give you the prefix or suffix to be able to find this sound in many words as the following, the first step is to memorize the blue words and then you are going to pronounce each word paying attention of /ɜː/ sound read  the words in groups, the next step is to separate the groups and mix all the words detecting the /ɜː/ sound :

·     "er": certain - concern - determine - her - nerve - perfect - person - service - term - verb - were

·      "ear": early - earn - earth - heard - learn - 

·       "ur": burn - hurt - murder - return - surface - Thursday -  - urban

·       "ir": bird - birthday - circle - circuit - circulation - dirty - firm - girl - shirt - sir - skirt - stir - third - 

·       "or": word - work - - worse - worst - worth

·       Others: journalist - journey

Finally you are going to create words that you know with those suffixes and write them down and underline where is the /ɜː/ sound in each word:

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