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Lesson 5 TH Consonant Sounds

This document provides instructions for pronouncing the voiced (ð) and unvoiced (θ) TH sounds in English. It explains that for both sounds, the tip of the tongue should be placed between the top and bottom teeth and air blown through the space. For the voiced TH sound, air and voice are used to create a buzzing sound similar to Z. Lists of words containing the different TH sounds are provided for practice, with the voiced sounds in green and unvoiced in blue. Finally, sample sentences demonstrate using the TH sounds in context.

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Lesson 5 TH Consonant Sounds

This document provides instructions for pronouncing the voiced (ð) and unvoiced (θ) TH sounds in English. It explains that for both sounds, the tip of the tongue should be placed between the top and bottom teeth and air blown through the space. For the voiced TH sound, air and voice are used to create a buzzing sound similar to Z. Lists of words containing the different TH sounds are provided for practice, with the voiced sounds in green and unvoiced in blue. Finally, sample sentences demonstrate using the TH sounds in context.

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LESSON 5

TH Consonant Sounds

To make the voiced and unvoiced TH sounds, place the tip of your tongue between your top and bottom
teeth. It should not stick out very far. Then blow air through the space between your tongue and your
top teeth. You also blow air through the top teeth. This makes the unvoiced TH sound (IPA symbol: θ). It
is a natural sound.

When you add your voice, you make the voiced TH sound (IPA symbol: ð). It is a buzzing sound similar to
the Z sound but with a different tongue position.

Practice the voiceless TH sound: θ

Voiceless TH at the Voiceless TH in the Voiceless TH at the


beginning of a word: middle of a word: end of a word:

think bathtub math


thin toothpick tooth
thing birthday teeth
thanks healthy tenth
thirty something ninth
Thursday anything fifth
three athlete breath
thumb earth
third mouth
thirteen south
north

Practice the voiced TH sound: ð

The voiced TH sound is Voiced TH in the Voiced TH at the end of


common in English middle of a word: a word:
pronouns and
feather breathe
demonstratives.
weather bathe
that father smooth
this brother
them mother
the clothing
their clothes
there either
they're other
those another
they
these
The voiceless TH sounds are in blue. Use only air to make these sounds.
The voiced TH sounds are in green. Use air and your voice to make these buzzing sounds.

θ ð
voiceless TH voiced TH
thin then
think these
third them
Thanks either
birthday brother
bathtub clothing
healthy worthy
math smooth
breath breathe

Now say these sentences out loud.

1) I think it is Thursday.

2) It is his thirteenth birthday today.

3) You can clean your teeth with a thin toothpick.

4) They should ask their father or their mother.

5) The other clothes are new.

6) There is another feather over there.

7) That thing is bigger than that other thing.

8) Those three boys will be three this Thursday, October ninth.

9) There is something in that dog's mouth.

10) My brother said the weather is warmer in the south than in the north.

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