유닛 8: Travel
Articles - a, an, the
유닛 고르세요
- 1Nice to meet you!
- 2What to wear
- 3Like this, like that
- 4The daily grind
- 5Christmas every day
- 6Great achievers
- 7The Titanic
- 8Travel
- 9The big wedding
- 10Sunny's job hunt
- 11The bucket list
- 12Moving and migration
- 13Welcome to BBC Broadcasting House
- 14New Year, New Project
- 15From Handel to Hendrix
- 16What's the weather like?
- 17The Digital Revolution
- 18A detective story
- 19A place to live
- 20The Cult of Celebrity
- 21Welcome to your new job
- 22Beyond the planets
- 23Great expectations!
- 24Eco-tourism
- 25Moving house
- 26It must be love
- 27Job hunting success... and failure
- 28Speeding into the future
- 29Lost arts
- 30Tales of survival
세션 3
Our journey continues! In this session we visit two more of the world's great cities. We explore some special rules for using articles and Emma teaches us how to pronounce them correctly.
Articles in spoken English
Do you know how to pronounce the articles a, an and the correctly? Emma's here to tell you everything you need to know.
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Hello, Emma here with a few tips on how to pronounce articles.
In natural spoken English, we usually pronounce 'a' or 'an' with a weak vowel sound /ə/ (uh). It sounds similar to the vowel sound in 'fun', and not the vowel sound in 'cat'. For example: a holiday, a ticket, an umbrella.
We also pronounce 'the' with this weak sound /ə/ (uh) before consonants - the doctor, the party - and before words that start with a y (/j/) sound, like the uniform, The European Union.
But when 'the' is before a vowel sound, we pronounce the with the long 'ee' sound (iː) like in 'me': the afternoon, the ice, the open door, the upstairs rooms.
Got that? Now you say them...
'a' (uh)... 'the' (uh)... and 'the' (thee).
See you soon.
Downloads
Download the pronunciation tips audio (size: 3.6MB).
End of Session 3
We hope you're clearer about how to use articles and how to say them. In the next Session we'll visit another country - and you'll put your learning into action. See you then!
