Pronunciation Practice [p]/[f]

Do you have trouble saying words like “perfect”, “pray”, “feel”, and “fan”? If so, here are a few tips, provided by the great teaching team at our San Diego English school, for improvement.

To make the [p] sound, have your two lips touching and blow out some air.

Practice the [p] sound with the following words:
Put, Play, Pie, Peel, Pray

To make the [f] sound, put your top teeth onto your bottom lip and blow out some air.

Practice the [f] sound with these words:
Fan, Fail, Foot, Feel, Pheasant

Try out these tantalizing tongue twisters!!

1.

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled peppers?
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

2.
Fresh fried fish,
Fish fresh fried,
Fried fish fresh,
Fish fried fresh.

3.
I’m not a pheasant plucker, I’m the pheasant plucker’s son,
And I’m only plucking pheasants until the pheasant pluckers come.

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