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  • Hey Jennifer from Tarle speech with another  heteronym lesson. Heteronyms are words that are  

  • spelled the same but they have different meanings  and different pronunciations. Yes super confusing,  

  • I know. Our words today are a super duper duper  duper common mistake that I hear a lot of my  

  • students say. And the words are project which is  to show something on a screen and project a task.

  • So we have project which is the task the  noun and project which is the verb. Let's  

  • get this out of the way common rule: in  heteronyms if it's a noun and a verb,  

  • syllable number one will be stressed in a noun and  syllable number two will be stressed in the verb.  

  • So to say these words correctly  let's start with that syllable  

  • number two because it's the same sounds  in syllable number two. ject ject ject.

  • We're going to start with that J J. To do this  rounded lips, you're going to touch the tip of  

  • your tongue to the back of your top front teethwhere the teeth meet the skin on the roof of your  

  • mouth, then you're going to pull that tongue back  into the middle of the mouth while air puffs out.

  • JJJ

  • My tongue is doing this J j j

  • Next we're going to add that eh sound. To do  this your mouth is slightly open. You're just  

  • going to see the tip of your tongue between  your top and your bottom teeth. EH. Move to  

  • that k- tip of the tongue is down back of the  tongue is pulled high up air puffs out then  

  • you're going to flip the tongue touch the  tip of the tongue to the teeth for that t

  • ject 

  • ject ject ject ject

  • Hope that little hand movement  wasn't too confusing for you.

  • Now for the beginning of both of these words  

  • we're going to start with that p r. My tip is  get your tongue where it needs to be for that R:  

  • tip of the tongue down or flipped back, back  of the tongue pulled high up. Put your lips  

  • together say that P, and then your tongue  is already there for the r : per per per.

  • For project you're gonna open your mouth  wide for that oh. Tip of the tongue is low,  

  • back of the tongue is pulled high up for  oh. We're gonna move from open to a pucker  

  • for that long o sound. Tongue is going to  move from low in the front to just flat.

  • Let's put these all together:

  • project project project project project

  • project project project project project

  • project project project project

  • And now for a sentence:

  • Please project your project on the screen.

  • Give it a try people will notice the difference.  

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Hey Jennifer from Tarle speech with another  heteronym lesson. Heteronyms are words that are  

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