Lesson #13

[ ʃ] [ ʧ]
This sound can be found at the beginning, This sound can be found at the beginning, in
in the middle, and at the end of words. the middle, and at the end of words.

As in chair, teacher, and witch

As in shoe, nation, and wish
Tongue tip: Firmly pressed against gum ridge
Tongue tip: near but not touching the upper behind upper front teeth.
gum ridge. Air: stopped for [t] and then released for [ ʃ]
Air: continuous Vocal cords: not vibrating
Vocal cords: not vibrating
Beginning Middle End Beginning Middle End
Shy Ocean Dish Chew Nature Itch
Shop Washer Wish Chair Teacher Each
Ship Tissue Cash Child Picture Match
Shine Insure Wash Chalk Hatched Much
Shoe Nation Rush Chest Butcher Reach
Short Patient Finish Choose Richer Touch
Share Mission Punish Cherry Orchard Sandwich
Sugar Official Foolish Chicken Question Peach
Shape Machine Spanish Charles Future Watch
Shower Brushing English Cheerful Catcher Speech
Common Patterns Common Patterns
sh: shelf, shirt, brush, crash, shadow ch: chop, rich, cheap, cheese, March
ti: option, section, fiction, mention, election tu: mature, culture, posture, fortune, picture
ci: social, special, musician, physician, tch: patch, catch, butcher, kitchen, pitcher
conscious
ss: issue, assure, depression, profession,
expression
ch: chef, chute, machine, Chicago, chauffeur

Lest frequent patterns: Lest frequent patterns:

s: sugar, pension t: righteous
ce: ocean ti: digestion, question
xi: anxious
The consonant [ʃ]

[ʃ]- -[ʃ]- -[ʃ]

1. she 1. machine 1. leash

2. ship 2. kinship 2. fish
3. shake 3. reshape 3. flesh
4. shed 4. seashore 4. cash
5. shoe 5. issue 5. harsh

Sentences:
1. We put the fish on the shore and went back to the ship.
2. She went shopping yesterday and bought me some shirts.
The consonant [tʃ]

[tʃ]- -[tʃ]- -[tʃ]

1. cheese 1. achieve 1. each

2. chip 2. Churchill 2. itch
3. chain 3. armchair 3. H
4. chess 4. Manchester 4. stretch
5. choose 5. enchant 5. catch

Sentences:
1. The children were chanting in the church.
2. Can I change my clam chowder for lamb chops?

Contrast [tʃ] and [ʃ]

[tʃ] [ʃ]

1. cheap sheep
2. chip ship
3. chair share
4. check shed
5. chose shows
6. choose shoes
Sentences:
1. Sheep are cheap in this country.
Don’t wash your watch in hot water
Listen and repeat.

[ʃ] [tʃ] [ʃ] [tʃ]

shoes choose shoe chew
ship cheap ship chip
shin chin share chair
mash match cash catch
wash watch Sherry cherry

she’s cheese sheer cheer

crush crutch sheet cheat

Listen to your teacher and write the correct phonetic symbols in the brackets above the
boldfaced letters.

[ʧ] [ʃ] [ʃ]

Example: Too much milk makes mushy mashed potatoes.

[ ] [ ] [ ]
1. The puppy shouldn’t chew the shoes.
[ ] [ ] [ ]
2. Shine the furniture with polish.
[ ] [ ]
3. The chef prepared a special dish.
[ ] [ ] [ ]
4. We should change the dirty sheets.
[ ] [ ] [ ]
5. Choosing a profession is a challenge.
[ ] [ ]
6. Let’s choose some new shoes.
[ ] [ ]
7. She’s eating the cheese.
[ ] [ ]
8. Sherry likes cherry pie.
 [ʒ] This sound can be found in the middle and at
the end of words.
In English, [ʒ] doesn’t occur at the beginning of words.

As in measure, vision, and rouge

Tongue tip: near but not touching the upper gum ridge,
as in [ʃ].
Air: continuous
Vocal cords: Vibrating
Middle End
Asia Rouge
Usual Beige
Vision Mirage
Leisure Garage
Measure Corsage
Pleasure Massage
Occasion Prestige
Decision Camouflage
Division Entourage
Television
Common Patterns
si: lesion, vision, explosion, conclusion, collision, illusion
su: closure, unusual, casual, composure, pleasure, measure
gi or ge: beige, regime, massage, negligee, camouflage,

Less Frequent Patterns

zu: azure, seizure

The consonant [ʒ]

-[ʒ]- -[ʒ]

1. vision 1. beige
2. occasion 2. garage
3. television 3. mirage
4. usual 4. massage
5. pleasure
Sentences:

1. I usually dress casually on this kind of occasion.

2. It’s a great pleasure to share the treasure with you.

Contrast [ʃ] and [ʒ]

1. pressure pleasure
2. solution conclusion
3. conversation occasion
4. position division
5. notion explosion
Sentences:

1. It’s my pleasure to be able to get rid of the pressure.

2. This conclusion is not a solution.

Practice the following sentences and phrases and pay attention to the
boldfaced words.

1. color television
2. long division
3. That’s unusual!
4. big decision
5. What’s the occasion?
6. It’s a pleasure to meet you.
7. A mirage is an illusion.
8. The azure skies are unusual.
Listen and circle the word in each group that is NOT pronounced [ʒ].

EXAMPLE: composure exposure enclosure position

1. leisure pleasure sure measure

2. Asia Asian Parisian Paris

3. huge beige rouge prestige

4. passion collision occasion decision

5. massage mirage message corsage

6. confusion conclusive contusion conclusion

7. lesion profession explosion aversion

8. vision version television visible

9. seizure seize azure division

10. treasury treasurer treason treasure

[ʒ] vs [ʃ]

Circle the words that have [ʒ] sound and underline the ones that have [ʃ]

1. The commission made a decision.

2. The class learned division and addition.

3. Measure the garage.

4. Your profession has prestige.

5. That’s an unusual shade of rouge.

[ʤ] [j]
This sound can be found at the This sound can be found at the
beginning, in the middle, and at the end beginning and in the middle of words.
of words.

As in you and yes

As in jam, magic, and age
Tongue tip: in the same position as for
Tongue tip: Firmly pressed against gum the vowel [i]
ridge behind upper front teeth. Air: Continuous
Air: stopped for [d] , and then released Vocal cords: Vibrating
for [[ʒ]]
Vocal cords: Vibrating
Beginning Middle End Beginning Middle
Jam Agent Age Yes Onion
Joy Adjust Cage You Canyon
Job Magic Large Yell Lawyer
Jar Enjoy Edge Use Beyond
Gym Angel Badge Year Values
Gem Injure ridge Yard Regular
Young Backyard
Youth Formula
Yesterday Unusual
Common Patterns Common Patterns
j: jaw, joke, major y: yet, your, yawn, yolk, yellow
g: giant, gentle, ranger i: union, junior, senior, million, familiar
dg: fudge, budge, wedge u: amuse, music, united, usual, university

The most common is y followed by

Lest frequent patterns: vowels
di: soldier, cordial yeast, you, canyon, farmyard
du: graduate, educate

The consonant [dʒ]

[dʒ]- -[dʒ]- -[dʒ]

1. jeep 1. Angie 1. siege

2. Gypsy 2. rigid 2. message
3. jay 3. suggest 3. age
4. Jeff 4. hijack 4. edge
5. juice 5. badge

Sentences:
1. I suggest you finish your college education first.
2. Jeff has managed to send a message to the judge

Contrast [dʒ] and [ʒ]

[dʒ]
[ʒ]

1. enlarge garage
2. page beige
3. a huge wall unusual
4. convergent conversion
5. pledger pleasure

Sentences:
1. It’s time to enlarge the garage.
2. This page is not beige; it’s brown.
The consonant [j]

[j]- -[j]- -[j]-

1. year 1. saying 1. abuse

2. use 2. lawyer 2. bureau
3. yard 3. beyond 3. cute
4. yet 4. papaya 4. peculiar
5. yoke 5. coyote 5. security

Sentences
1. Tell your lawyer that I’m not going to yield yet.
2. Yuck! How can you eat yam, papaya, and yogurt together?
Listen and repeat. Pay attention to the words and be sure to pronounce
the [ʤ] and [j] sounds correctly.

[ʤ] [j]
1. jell yell
2. Jell-O yellow
3. joke yolk
4. jeer year
5. major mayor
6. Did they come by jet? Did they come by yet?
7. It has no juice. It has no use.
8. He became a major. He became a mayor.
9. The jam is sweet. The yam is sweet.
10. He went to jail. He went to Yale.

[j] [ʤ]
11. Do you like yellow Jell-O?
[ʤ] [j]
12. Jess said yes.
[ʤ] [j]
13. Did the jet leave yet?
[ʤ] [j]
14. The crowds jeered this year.
[ʤ] [ʤ] [j]
15. Jim found a jar in his yard.
Read the following story about George Washington. The story contains
words with all the sounds in this lesson.

Pronunciation
Minimal Pair /ʃ/ /s/
words like MASH and MASS
 Activity 1
Listen to your teacher saying the words in Column 1 and Column 2 below.
Column 1 Column 2
Mash Mass
Shell Sell
Shock Sock
She See / Sea
Ash Ass
Show So / Sew
Shed Said
Sheet Seat
Shame Same
  Activity 2
Listen to your teacher saying one of the words from Activity 1. Say if you think the word is in
Column 1 or Column 2.

 Activity 3
Listen to your teacher saying two words from Activity 1. If the words are the same, circle S
below. If you think the words are different, circle D below.

1. S D 2. S D 3. S D 4. S D 5. S D
6. S D 7. S D 8. S D 9. S D 10. S D
 Activity 4
Listen to your teacher reading the sentences below. Circle the word you hear.

1. The ash / ass was grey. 6. Will you show / sew it?

2. It was a shock / sock. 7. What does ‘shed’ / ’said’ mean?

3. Would you like a sheet / seat? 8. How do you spell ‘she’ / ’sea’?

4. He is shelling / selling peas. 9. The mash / mass was white.

5. It was the shame / same.

 Activity 5
Imagine you are the teacher now! Work with a partner and repeat the activities above.
Then swap roles.
Pronunciation
Minimal Pair /ʤ/ /ʧ/
words like JEEP and CHEAP
 Activity 1
Listen to your teacher saying the words in Column 1 and Column 2 below.

Column 1 Column 2

Jeep Cheap
Large Larch
Jokes Chokes
Gin Chin
June Tune

 Activity 2
Listen to your teacher saying one of the words from Activity 1. Say if you think the word is in
Column 1 or Column 2.

 Activity 3
Listen to your teacher saying two words from Activity 1. If the words are the same, circle S
below. If you think the words are different, circle D below.

1. S D 2. S D 3. S D 4. S D 5. S D
6. S D 7. S D 8. S D 9. S D 10. S D
 Activity 4
Listen to your teacher reading the sentences below. Circle the word you hear.

1. Can I have this jeep / cheap, please?

2. There was a large / larch tree in the garden.
3. He jokes / chokes a lot.
4. The man has a very big gin / chin.
5. The fans jeered / cheered as the team played.
6. She likes to sing in June / tune.

 Activity 5
Imagine you are the teacher now! Work with a partner and repeat the activities above.
Then swap roles.