Session 1:辅音R和W的发音方法



★ How to Practice?

1. Speak slowly;

2. Use a loud voice;

3. Exaggerate your mouth movements.


★ The Key to Success?

1. Being aware of your errors; (意识到自己的发音错误)


2. Recognizing mistakes when you hear them.(听见发音错误时能辨认出来)



 ▌Session One 知识要点


1. Consonant R


2. Consonant W



▍Tips for R

1. Mouth and lips come tightly forward; (嘴巴和嘴唇向前撅

2. Tongue moves back.舌头朝后



R's at the beginning of words (push out the R sound)


Rock    Rip        Reach    Road     Rain   


Rich     Rome    Raise      Robe     Rice


Sentence: The round rooster rushed into the wrong road.


R's at the end of words or after a vowel

Car     Far    Star    Door   Bear  


Four    Air    Year   Turn    Poor


R's in the middle of words

Very       Direction    Arrange    Erase    Correct    Marry

Garage   Original      Hurry        Zero     Marine     Berry 


Operation   Caring    Arrive       Everyone


R Blends


The "R" is ALWAYS the strongest sound of the blend.


Your lips comes forward before you even say the word.



R blends at the beginning of words


Training    Trust    Trip    Great     Tropical

Bring     Print        President     Product    Cracker

Crawl     Break


R blends in the middle of words

Subtract    Waitress      Nutrition      Australia    


Introduce   Compress   Oppression   Betray


R sounds in sentences

The story he read on the radio was incorrect.

Her career in the law firm is permanent.

Richard and Brooke took a ride in their brand new Range Rover truck.

Everyone will respect the Royal Family when they arrive at the airport.

The trip to the Rocky Mountains will be rescheduled on Friday.


▍Tips for W

1. Practice first with OO.

2. Then go into OOOOOWAWAWA.

3. Remember, A W is always makes a W sound. It NEVER makes a V sound.


W Sentence

What will we do?


Comparing R and W

Rick – Wick

Right – White


The W sound is also at the beginning of the words,like One and Once.


W at the beginning of words

Why   Which   When    What

Wipe    Wish      Weight     Wing


W in the middle of words

Always    Away    Beware    Awake

Someone    Rewind    Halloween    Hollywood


W sentences

The wind from the west was very wet. (Notice very has a /v/ sound)

We woke up and washed the white washcloth.

We waited for the waitress to give us water.

We had a wonderful time in Washington and Wisconsin.


Q words (produced as a KW sound)

Question    Quiet        Queen     Qualify

Quit           Quebec      Quilt       Choir


Paragraph Practice


Ray was born in Russia. He dreamed of building the perfect roller coaster at the Grand Canyon in Arizona. He had a friend named Fred who lived in Norway. Fred's profession was designing railroad tracks and his career involved traveling around the world. Ray thought it would be perfect if Fred designed his roller coaster ride. Fred was creative, brilliant and worked well with railroad tracks. He would be the perfect engineer for the project. The ride took two years to construct and was painted red and white. Everyone really wanted to ride the brand-new roller coaster.