Jennifer from Tarle Speech with your Friday  heteronym lesson. Heteronyms are words that  

are spelled the same. They're pronounced  differently with different spellings.

I have two words today. And I think if you've  been watching, you are almost going to be  

able to teach this lesson, because it's  the same pattern as the past few weeks.

Our words today are conflict which is a fight or a  disagreement and conflict which is to act against.

So we have the same rule: nouns stress  syllable one; verb stress syllable two.  

Another pattern you might be seeing is when we  have a stressed syllable that begins with con,  

we tend to say cun. But when we have that  unstressed syllable, we just relax our mouth,  

and make things short and simple,  and we say that short uh sound. cun

All right! So let's start with  syllable number one in both of  

these words. For both of these words,  we're going to start with the k sound.  

Tip of the tongue is down, back of the tongue is  pulled high up. Air puffs out. Keep your tongue in  

that same spot. Open your mouth more for that  oh and then move the tip of the tongue to the  

spot where your teeth meet the roof of your  mouth for that n. Air moves out of your nose.

When you're saying the syllable  Kun, the unstressed syllable,  

just relax your mouth in the middle  for that uh sound. cun cun cun.

Now Flict. This is a little complicated. Let's  take our time. We are going to start with that  

F sound. You can either bite the inside. Bite,  I'm using that as a general term, meaning you are  

going to be touching your teeth to the inside or  the outside of your bottom lip. Air moves out of  

the mouth. Next move the tongue to behind the top  front teeth. It's that spot where the teeth meet  

the skin on the roof of the mouth for that l.  L. Hold it there for an extra second. fl fl fl.

You can see when I move from that F to the L  my mouth is not moving a lot. All the action  

is happening inside of my mouth and do that  so that you do not add an extra vowel which  

would equate to an extra syllable. You don't  want to say fuh l. We don't want that. fl

Next we're going to add that  short e sound. To do that,  

your mouth is basically relaxed. The tip of  the tongue is behind the top front teeth.  

It is not peeking out, but it's just there,  and your tongue is generally relaxed. eh eh

Next, move to that K. Tip of the tongue  is down, back of the tongue is pulled  

way high up. Then take the tip of the  tongue and take it to the top of the  

mouth to the spot where the teeth meet the  skin on the roof of your mouth for the t.

Put that all together 

f lih ik t 

fl ik t flikt 

flikt flikt 

flikt flikt 

flikt So we have 

conflict conflict 

conflict conflict conflict conflict

And now for a sentence:

There was a conflict in the schedule which  led to a conflict between the colleagues.

Give it a try people are going  to notice the difference.

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