Work VS Walk Advanced English Pronunciation Lesson
hi i’m vanessa from speak english with
Vanessa comm work walk help let’s talk
about this pronunciation in this lesson
we’re going to be talking about two
challenging words that sound similar but
they’re different they are work and walk
I walk to work I walk to work what’s the
difference let’s slow it down and talk
about one word at a time the first word
we’re going to talk about is work work
where do you work I work at a school I
work at a bank work wor K how can we
pronounce this accurately well a quick
little tip is that you can imagine the
word were we were hungry they were happy
wer e and then just add a K on the end
of this word work work up we were at the
bank were look at my mouth and try to
imitate this were were work work I work
at home work where do you work let’s
talk about the second word the second
word is luck I like to walk in the
morning when the Sun is coming up when
the birds are chirping it’s a beautiful
time of day walk I like to walk you
might notice that my mouth is a little
more open for this word our quick tip is
to think of W a wall plus K walk walk
earlier we talked about wer plus K work
but here let’s think about walk what
happened to the L sound hmm well it’s
gone
we don’t say wall
walk not at all
we’re gonna cut it out completely so you
can just say walk I like to walk I don’t
like to walk to work in the morning all
right are you ready to combine these two
together we’re going to have to
challenge sentences and I want you to
guess which sentence is which before I
tell you these two sentences it’s a
little test so I want you to be prepared
to guess what you can do is use a pen
and a piece of paper and just write walk
work work walk which sentence links with
which words I want you to guess as I’m
saying it and then at the end of the
video I’ll give you the correct answer
all right let’s talk about the first
sentence when I was walking I saw the
men working when I was walking I saw the
men working I’m going to say this first
sentence slowly that way you can see my
mouth and try to remember from earlier
in this video how I’m pronouncing work
and walk ready when I was walking I saw
the men working when I was walking I saw
the men working all right that sentence
number one so I want you to write down
on your piece of paper or in your brain
work walk walk work which one is first
let’s talk about the second one to make
it challenging it’s the same sentence
but the two words are switched it is
when I was working I saw the men walking
when I was working I saw the men walking
when I was working I saw the men walking
I’m gonna say it slowly write down what
you think is the correct answer when I
was working I saw the men walking all
right I hope you had a chance to write
down your answers you can also write
them in the comments and let me know did
you have the correct answer I’m going to
post here on the screen number one
number two what are the correct
answers when I was working I saw the man
walking when I was walking I saw the men
working how did you do I hope that you
can use this lesson to repeat after me
use a shadowing practice shadow my voice
imitate directly after each of my
sentences let us know in the comments
below how did he do so you have an X n
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