we have a lesson on the spelling ough and how do you pronounce certain words

the words look very confusing when you look at them so let's go through

definitions first our words are tough difficult through which means to go in

one side and come out the other thorough which means detailed though despite the

fact and thought to think or believe I have a whole class on ough and if

you're interested in that I'll put a link in the description so you can check

that out alright so for these words if you can just memorize these new

Spelling's that I came up with this is actually a fairly easy lesson so here

this ough in tough is going to be pronounced as us a short U and an F

because yes these letters G H sometimes do make the F sound so number one we

have tough tough to make that F sound make sure that the air is coming out of

your mouth and that your mouth is slightly open you're going to kind of

bite the inside of your bottom lip and your voice box is off and not moving

tough tough you can bite the outside of your lip and say tough if you want but I

bite the inside tough tough just make sure like I said

that air comes out next we have through and these two words are pronounced

exactly the same so you threw the ball and it went through the hoop so in this

case the ough is pronounced as an ew and to start that word we are going to

have the thr that is really difficult so you're going to stick your tongue out of

your mouth for that and make sure you let that air keep moving over the top

over your tongue so the air moves out th and then as you pull your tongue in

you're gonna try to point your tongue down or flip the tip of your tongue back

for that r through through through and for that ew sound

your just gonna pucker your lips and make a nice long ew sound through next we have

thorough this is a two syllable combination here ther

O thorough to do that th sound again tongue is out of the mouth not touching

the teeth and you want to make sure that the air can go over the top of that

tongue to get a little more specific I've had a few people ask about this

yeah you can't cup your tongue a little bit and you can see I do that with my

tongue so if you're more advanced definitely do that if you're more of a

beginner just make sure you try to stick your tongue out of your mouth and try

not to touch your teeth so when you do not touch your teeth that allows the air

to come over the top of your tongue so you have that nice th sound then move to

the ER again for the er sound kind of square tense lips point the tip of the

tongue down or flip it back and then move to that o by puckering the lips

thorough thorough thorough next we have though and to say this we're just going

to do that th sound like we just talked about and then add an O

though though though and make sure that o is nice and long and then the last one we

have thought and to make this one I think this is probably the most

confusing one because a lot of my students will say a t instead of the

th so make sure that you are allowing that air to come out of your mouth for

that th sound and then touch the tip of your tongue to the back of your top

front teeth to end the word with that and then we're gonna have the open short

oh oval mouth wide open that allows the

tongue to get low in the mouth the tip of the tongue low and the back of the

tongue to be pulled up so we have thought thought thought let's give them

all a try tough through thorough though thought tough

through thorough though and thought and let me give you a sentence though I

thought it would be tough to get through I was successful due to my thorough plan

give it a try I know people are definitely going to notice the

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