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Welcome to another video.
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In this video we're going to have a look at minimal pairs for short and long vowel sounds.
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What are minimal pairs?
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Let's have a look at an example.
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We have the words fit and feet.
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Fit is an adjective and feet is a noun in the plural form.
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Let's look at the pronunciation.
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Here you can see the phonemic transcript are fit and feet.
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Look carefully at the sound symbols.
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We have a consonant, a vowel and another consonant.
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The only difference is the vowel in the two words.
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We have in fit and in feet.
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And these two words are a minimal pair.
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There's only one different sound in the same position and everything else is the same.
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And that makes it a minimal pair.
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Remember, you can always comment under all my videos and make suggestions for future videos or ask questions.
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Thank you to Alexander who left me this comment and asked specifically for more examples and minimal pairs.
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So Alexander, here you go.
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Let's get started.
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Let's practice minimal pairs for I and E first.
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This is what you have to do.
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First of all, listen to the word.
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Then decide, does it contain a short I or a long E? And then simply check. So here we go.
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We have 10 minimal pairs for I and E.
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I'm only going to read one of the words out loud and you need to decide which one.
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If you're watching this live, you can type your answer in the live chat.
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Let's start.
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Number one.
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He's And this was with a long e.
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Number two.
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Fill.
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Fill.
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Short or long?
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Short.
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Fill.
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Number three.
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Hit.
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Hit.
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Short or long?
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Also short.
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Hit.
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Number four.
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Sleep.
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Sleep.
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Short or long?
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Long.
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Sleep.
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Number five.
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Still.
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Still.
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Short.
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Still.
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Number six.
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Leap.
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Leap.
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Long.
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Leap.
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Number seven.
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Peach.
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Peach.
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Short or long?
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Long.
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Peach.
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Number eight.
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Bean.
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Bean.
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Short or long?
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Bean.
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Long.
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Number nine.
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Pill.
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Pill.
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Short.
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Pill.
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Number ten.
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Tin.
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Tin.
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Short.
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Tin.
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Tin.
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Now have a look at the minimal pairs again and you will notice some common spelling patterns.
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The short I is always spelled with an I.
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The long E is often spelled with double E or EA a
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but not always because in he we only have an e.
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Let's do another activity for those minimal pairs using other words
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but again we will focus on e and e and the question is can you match the minimal pairs together?
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Have a look.
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Here they are.
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We have words with E on the left and words with E on the right.
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And you need to match the minimal pairs.
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Now if you want to read all of the words first,
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please pause the video now and read over them carefully.
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And I would encourage you to read the words out loud.
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We're going to start.
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We're going to match the words on the left with the words on the right.
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The first word is itch with a short it's itch it's a verb itch
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and it's going to match with each
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each next up we have is is and this is going to match with ease ease
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Number three.
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Risen.
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Risen.
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And this is going to match with reason.
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Reason.
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Number four.
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Knit.
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Knit.
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And this is going to match with neat.
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Neat.
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Next up, we have still.
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And this is going to match with steel.
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And the last one this is easy it
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it matches with eat eat hopefully you
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heard a clear difference between the words with i and the words with e Now here are the answers side by side.
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And I'm going to read all the words with the short I one more time.
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Itch, is, risen, knit, still, it.
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And next up, the words with the long e.
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Each, ease, reason, neat, steal, eat.
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Which one do I say?
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Just like before, I'm only going to say one of the words from each minimal pair
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and you need to guess which one.
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And again, if you're watching this live, you can put your answers in the comments.
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Number one.
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Itch.
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Itch.
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Short e – itch.
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Number two.
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Ease.
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Ease.
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Long ee.
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Number three.
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Risen.
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Risen.
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short i number four knit knit
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also short i number five steal steal
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Long E.
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Number six.
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Eat.
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Eat.
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Also long E.
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How many did you get right?
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You can put your score in the comment section.
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Now let's practice another set of two sounds where we often have minimal pairs and those two sounds are and .
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Here are two example words.
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And here you have the phonemic transcript.
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Pot, port.
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So short R and long R.
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Now let's do an activity with short R and long R.
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Just listen to each pair. Was.
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Walls.
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Shot.
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Short.
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Walk.
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Walk.
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Cut.
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Caught.
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Fox, forks.
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Spot, sport.
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Not, nought.
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I hope you heard a clear difference between short R and long O.
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Now, let's practice.
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Again, I'm only going to read one of the words for each number.
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Which word do you hear?
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Number one. Was. Was.
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Short or long?
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Short. Was.
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Number two.
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Short.
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Short.
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And this is a long oar.
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I know, it's a bit funny.
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The word short has a long oar sound.
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Not a short one.
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Number three.
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Walk.
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walk short walk number four court court
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Long.
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Caught.
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Number five.
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Forks.
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Forks.
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Also long.
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Forks.
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Forks.
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Number six.
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Spot.
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Spot.
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Short.
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Spot.
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Number seven.
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Not.
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Not.
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Long O.
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Not.
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And for those of you who are wondering what that word means, it's the same as zero.
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It's referring to a number.
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Well done, everybody.
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You completed the practice for those minimal pairs where the only difference is a long or short vowel sound.
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Now remember, you can always leave me a comment.
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I would love to hear what you thought of this video and what you learned.
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Thank you to Gashbin and Alicia who left a comment on some of my past videos.
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I loved reading your comments and I always enjoy reading your questions as well.
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And I'd love to answer, maybe next time in video form.
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Thank you.
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