English Highway Podcast

Pronunciation: Short /o/ vs. short /e (#0291)

Compare words using the short /o/ and /e/ vowel sounds.

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Youre about to listen to an audio lesson from OpenEnglish.com. Welcome. Im your head coach Andres Moreno, and Im ready for another exciting audio lesson. Today were going to be working on recognizing differences in very similar sets of vowel sounds. Were going to be comparing the short o vowel sound as in the word, blog and the short e sound as in the word, send. blog send So lets practice. Repeat after me: blog Stretch the vowel sound: ooo blog And now the short e vowel sound. Repeat after me: send send blog send Way to go. Lets practice some words with the short o vowel sound. Repeat after me: blog I have my own blog. And again: I have my own blog. Good job. Heres another one. Repeat after me:
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log on log on Good. Heres a sentence. Repeat after me: I log on every day. Good job. Heres another word. Repeat after me: monitor monitor I monitor the Internet. One more time: I monitor the Internet. Good job. One last example, repeat after me: laptop I just bought a new laptop. Way to go. The next sentence has two short o vowel sounds. Repeat after me: not shopping We're not going shopping. One more time: We're not going shopping. Way to go. Now let's practice some words with the short e vowel sounds. Repeat after me: get get Please get me the power cord. And again: Please get me the power cord.

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Good job. Here's another example. Repeat after me: set set Good. Here's a sentence: I set up my new desk. One more time: I set up my new desk. That's it. Here's another one. Repeat after me: send send I send weekly e-mails. And again: I send weekly e-mails. Great job, last example. Repeat after me: Ned Ned Ned is really smart. Come on, last time: Ned is really smart. You got it. Now, let's try using these two different sounds in one single sentence. Repeat after me: get off get off Get off the Internet. Way to go. Get and off have similar sounds, but they're different. Once again: get off

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That's it. Here's another example. Repeat after me: desktop desk top desktop Now a sentence: I bought a desktop computer. Way to go. The word desk has the short e vowel sound and the word top has the short o vowel sound. Let's look at a couple of word pairs that have these similar sounds. Repeat after me: get got Very similar words, but different vowel sounds. Once again: get got Can you hear the difference? Last time: get got Here's one last example. Listen and repeat after me: leg log And again: leg log Similar words but they have different vowel sounds. different words. So they're very

Thats the end of this audio lesson. Great job today. Keep up the good work and remember, practice makes perfect!

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Additional practice: Short o versus short e vowel sounds

Words: blog send log on monitor laptop not shopping get set send Ned off get off desktop desk top Word pairs: get - got leg - log Sentences: I have my own blog. I log on every day. I monitor the Internet. I just bought a new laptop. We're not going shopping. Please get me the power cord. I set up my new desk. I send weekly e-mails. Ned is really smart. Get off the Internet. I bought a desktop computer.

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