English Speaking Exercise Describing People and Objects
Instructions: Please recite the following paragraph. Press the 'add audio submission' button to record and submit this exercise.
There are five houses. There are two men. There are seven girls. There is one wallet. There is one towel. There are eight dogs. There are nine cakes. The cakes have three candles. Three boys are tall. One boy is short. Five women are young. Two women are old. Six men are rich. Four men are poor.
"Girls" sounds very good! Good work!
Now let's work on "cakes". I wasn't reading the text while listening, and I had a little trouble understanding "cakes". It could sound like the word "kegs".
I am recording "kegs" and "cakes" for you. Listen to the difference. It's mostly in the vowel sound. You want a strong "a" sound in "cake".
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Girls sounds much better now! This is an great submission too!
This is very good.
Listen for five, houses, men and women.
Also, about the "th" sound. Start the sound with your tounge under your top teeth, not behind your teeth.
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Very good!
"women" is a difficult word to pronounce. Keep working on it!