In this lesson you will learn two new sounds, the hard ‘G’ and ‘K’. The ‘K’ sound is made by both the letter ‘K’ and the letter ‘C’. The letter ‘G’ makes two different sounds, the hard ‘G’ and the soft ‘G’. The soft ‘G’ sound is like the ‘J’ sound. This lesson we will practice the hard ‘G’ sound.

Some of the words that use these sounds are “gold” and “cold”, “gale” and “kale” and “bag” and “back”.

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UGoEigo English Sounds Lesson 9: G & K

Welcome to the ninth UGoEigo phonetics video podcast.

In this lesson we will study two new English sounds.

Listen to me say each word and watch my mouth.

Then say the word with me.

Move your mouth the same way as mine.

This lesson we will compare the ‘G’ and ‘K’ sounds.

‘G’ makes two sounds - “hard” and “soft”.

This lesson we will practice the “hard G” sound.

Watch and say it with me…

Now let’s try the ‘K’ sound.

Watch and say it with me…

What is the same? What is different?

Your tongue is in the same place for both.

Touch the back of your tongue to the back of your mouth.

For ‘G’ use your voice. For ‘K’ breath out.

Watch and say with me… English G & K Sounds

Nice.

Often the ‘K’ sound is written with the letter ‘C’.

The letter ‘C’makes either the ‘K’ or ‘S’ sound.

Now let’s try some words.

Watch and say these words with me…

• “gap” - gap
• “get” - get
• “gift” - gift
• “got” - got
• “gum” - gum
• “game” - game
• “geese” - geese
• “guy” - guy
• “go” - go
• “good” - good
• “flag” - flag
• “ago” - ago
• “car” - car
• “Ken” - Ken
• “kid” - kid
• “cot” - cot
• “cub” - cub
• “cake” - cake
• “keep” - keep
• “kite” - kite
• “code” - code
• “cute” - cute
• “click” - click
• “broke” - broke
• “geek” - geek
• “keg” - keg

Now listen.

Which word do you hear?

How did you do?

Now let’s practice.

Watch and say these words with me…

• “gale” - gale
• “kale” - kale
• “gold” - gold
• “cold” - cold
• “game” - game
• “came” - came
• “sing” - sing
• “sink” - sink
• “glass” - glass
• “class” - class
• “bag” - bag
• “back” - back
• “good” - good
• “could” - could

Super!

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In the first two “Functional Phrases” lessons you practiced greetings. This lesson you will practice what to say when you leave. There are both polite and casual things to say.

• Goodbye.
• Goodnight.
• Farewell.
• Take care.
• See you tomorrow.
• See you later.
• See ya!

“Farewell” is very final sounding, when maybe you won’t meet again. “See ya!” is very casual and friendly.
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In this “Functional Phrases” lesson, you will practice how to respond to the greetings in lesson 1. For example, in lesson 1 you learned “How are you?” There are many different ways to reply:

• I’m fine, thank you.
• Fine, thanks. And you?
• I’m doing fine. How about you?
• I’m O.K.
• I’m alright.
• I’m doing O.K.
• Eh, not bad.

The first one is the most polite. You can mix the “thank you”, “thanks”, “And you?” and “How about you?” with different replies, like “Eh, not bad. How about you?”

“I’m doing fine” can be changed to “I’m doing alright” too.

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