Warm up

1. 🔊 Which one do you think is harder, L or R sounds?
2. 🔊 Can you say rain and rake?
3. 🔊 How about real and rare?

Notes

1. 🔊 Start out with the a like the one in father
2. 🔊 slowly lift the middle of the tongue up, pull it back a little bit, and push your lip corners out a little
3. 🔊 go back and forth/don’t stop the airflow (“ar a” vs. “arrrrra”)
4. 🔊 arrrrrr arrrrr arrrrrrr
5. 🔊 rrrraaaa rrraaaa rrrraaa
6. 🔊 arrrrraaaaa
7. 🔊 “a” as in hat vowel
8. 🔊 errrrrreeeeeerrrrrreeeeerrreee
9. 🔊 “o” as in “oh my god”
10. 🔊 orrrrrooooorrrrorrrroooorroooo

Discussion

1. 🔊 Can you say rhyme and ring?
2. 🔊 How about car and store?
3. 🔊 How about forest and burrow?
4. 🔊 Can you say real and library?
5. 🔊 How about collaborate?