This document is a lesson plan from SkimaTalk for an intermediate pronunciation course. The first lesson focuses on distinguishing the sounds of L/R and the two different sounds of Th. It provides examples of words contrasting these sounds and tongue twisters to practice. The lesson includes 10 slides with examples, explanations and tongue twisters practicing the different sounds of L/R and the two variations of Th.

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SkimaTalk Official Course
Intermediate Pronunciation
Lesson 1: Sounds L / R / Th

2. Intermediate Pronunciation
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Today’s Lesson!
1. Sounds L / R / Th
2. Sounds B / F / V
3. Sounds S / Sh / Z
4. Sounds P / B / T / D
5. Sounds M / N / K / G
6. Sounds W / Y / H
7. Sounds [tʃ] / [dʒ] / [ʃ] / [ʒ]
8. Sounds [a] / [æ] / [ʌ]
9. Sounds [e] / [ə] / [i]
10. Sounds [ou] / [ɔ]

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# R L
1 Right Light
2 Rate Late
3 Rap Lap
4 Pray Play
5 Fry Fly
6 Rice Lice
7 Fearing Feeling
8 Car Call
9 Rhyme Lime
10 Fruit Flute
Sounds: R vs. L
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# Th [θ] Th[ð]
1 Thin The
2 Thief These
3 Theme Them
4 Three There
5 Birthday Worthy
6 Author Another
7 Nothing Clothing
8 Width Bathe
9 Forth Teethe
10 Thirtieth Smooth
Sounds: Th [θ] vs. Th[ð]
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5. Now Let’s Practice with Tongue Twisters!
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Rory the warrior and Roger the worrier were reared wrongly in a
rural brewery.
No need to light a night-light on a night like tonight.
A lump of red leather, a red leather lump.
On a lazy laser raiser lies a laser ray eraser.
Tongue Twisters – L / R
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Th [θ] I thought a thought. But the thought I thought I thought
wasn’t the thought I thought. If the thought I thought I thought
had been the thought I thought I thought, I wouldn’t have
thought so much.
Th [ð] These are teething toys for my children. They use them
when they are teething.
Th [θ] & [ð] There those thousand thinkers were thinking
how did the other three thieves go through.
Tongue Twisters – Th
Now Let’s Practice with Tongue Twisters!
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