It's Jennifer from Tarle speech with  your two for Tuesday homophone lesson.

Homophones are words that  are pronounced exactly the  

same way. They just have different  spellings and different meanings.

Our homophones today are:

symbol an object that represents something and cymbal a percussion instrument  

that looks like a metal dish

So to say these words correctly we have two  beats. Let's start with syllable number one - sim.  

Pretty easy for this. You're just  going to start with that s sound.  

To do this your lips are slightly pulled, back  there's no pucker there, tip of your tongue is  

behind the top front teeth, it is not touching. If  it's pointing down a little bit, that's okay too.

Next you're going to relax the lips  for the e sound. The tip of your tongue  

is just behind the top front teeth it's not  peeking out it's just kind of at the top there.

And then we're going to end  with the m. Lips stay together  

and air is going to move out  of your nose. sim sim sim

Next for the bul you're going to start by  closing the lips for the b sound and then  

open them while the air puffs out. And  then we're going to move to that short  

uh sound and when you do that just  relax mouth, relaxed tongue, relaxed  

lips, and it's sort of like a placeholder while  you're moving from that b to that l sound.

And to say the l sound you're going to just  touch the tip of your tongue to the back of  

your top front teeth. Tip for all of you out  there, hold your tongue right where you should  

at the end behind your top front teeth super  specifically, where your teeth meet the skin  

of the roof of your mouth hold it there for  that l to make it nice and long. Bull bull bull

Please take note it's not sim bowl  

for both of these

symbol symbol symbol cymbal cymbal cymbal

And now for a sentence: A student playing a cymbal  

is used as a symbol for the band.

Give it a try people will notice the difference!

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