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hello Jennifer from Tarle Speech with your pronunciation question today's
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question is how do I pronounce the two words cheat and sheet let's go ahead and
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take a look at these words so cheat means to act dishonestly and sheet refers to a
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rectangular piece of paper or a material or some type of substance the big
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difference between these two words which confuses my students is the CH sound and
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the SH sound first let's talk about spelling the CH and the SH I circled on
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here so you know that it is one sound spelled with two letters this is called
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a digraph in English and it means two letters one sound so tip number one is
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don't even think about saying an H sound that should help you a lot I have lots
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of students that try to do that so let's now learn how do we actually
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say these sounds let's start with the Shh sound this is relatively easy you're
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going to round your lips very round very tense and that should get your tongue
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into the right position it's going to be high and flat in your mouth and it is
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not touching your teeth sh and the air is going to continuously move out of your
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mouth now for the CH sound again remember two letters one sound what
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you're going to do is you're going to round your lips again but this time
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you're going to touch the tip of your tongue that part right there to the back
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of your top front teeth ch ch ch so you're going to touch and then pull it back touch and
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pull it back so we have ch and sh
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ch
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Shh then for both words they end the same we're going to move to a long e by
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smiling and then touch the tip of the tongue to the back of the top front
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teeth for the t sound so we have cheat cheat cheat and sheet sheet sheet so
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again touch your teeth cheat don't touch your teeth sheet now as a little bonus
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how do you say the word cheat sheet which would be some notes that you have
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maybe to take into an exam when you're allowed to use your notes to take the
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test what you're going to do is we're going to make a compound noun what is
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that it's two words put together to form a new word that means something
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different and when we make a compound noun we're going to link the words
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together meaning no pause between those two words word number one is going to be
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louder and it's going to be higher in pitch and the vowel is going to be
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longer as opposed to word number two which will be softer lower in pitch and
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have a shorter vowel so we're gonna say cheat sheet cheat sheet cheat sheet
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cheat sheet so I hope you don't have to cheat on your test when you're writing
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your answers on the sheet since you were allowed to bring in a cheat sheet give
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it a try people are going to notice the difference if you found this helpful
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