Schwa can be produced by completely relaxing your jaw and mouth and making a short, almost grunting “uh” sound, like the sound of a stereotypical incredulous or confused teenager. It is most similar to the ir/er/ur sound in “fur”, but is shorter and is not stressed. In fact, sch...
The schwa sound can be tricky for students to grasp, especially when learning to read longer words with many syllables. There is no simple rule for how to spellthe schwa, making it hard to teach. The best approach is to give students plenty of practice and exposure. However, there are se...
Such weak forms almost always have the same schwa sound as at the end of “computer”. There are also some examples with /i/ like the /bin/ pronunciation of “been”, but so few that /i/ can be left out of the presentation stage to simplify things. One reason for putting auxiliary ...
Teach students to try the schwa sound when a long or short vowel doesn’t sound right in a word being read. e.g., ‘I’m having a sal-ad’. After decoding the word with a ‘robot’ voice (each syllable evenly stressed), have the student place stress on one syllable (sal’) then...
Here, Frank reduced the word ‘to’ to the flap T and the schwa sound: de, de, de, glad de, Glad to bring it. Listen again. Well, I’m glad to bring it. This boat is 17 years old, and I was beginning to wonder earlier in the week if I was going to bring it back again...
The sound of /ā/ can be spelled A-consonant-E or AY (among other possible spellings), giving us daze and days. The schwa sound (the muffled /uh/ sound of vowels in unaccented syllables) causes words like complement and compliment to be pronounced alike.How Are Homophones Different from...
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Schwa is the second one. The first one is the /ʌ/ sound, the tongue is a little bit lower in the middle of the mouth, /θʌ/.第二个是弱央元音。第一个是/ʌ/音，舌头在嘴巴中间低一点，/θʌ/。Then we need to do a /r/ and then we go into a schwa sound which the ...
You can adapt this activity to have students watch videos with different uses of one word, like “date” meaning “to go on an outing” as well as “a specific day on the calendar.” Students can then teach each other the meaning that they learned. ...
。This is found in words like "ought", "fought" and "thought".这在单词“ought”，“fighting”和“thought”中都有出现。Number seven: "ə".第 7 个：“ə”。Just like in the words "above" and "about".就像单词"above"和"about"一样。This is the schwa sound. It's "ə"....