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  • 07/06/2025
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00:00I'm Gill at Ingvid, and today we have a lesson on some pronunciation, where you have words...
00:10If you add an E, it changes the length of the vowel sound.
00:16So, for example, we've got the word bit with a short I sound, but then if you add an E
00:25on the end, of course, it changes the meaning, but it also makes the pronunciation different
00:32by lengthening the vowel sound.
00:35So we get bite, so bit and bite, short and long.
00:42So with each one of these, that's what happens.
00:47The short vowel sound in the left-hand column becomes a longer vowel sound in the right-hand
00:54column.
00:55Okay.
00:56And maybe also this will give you some new vocabulary.
01:01If there are any words you may not have come across before, this will help you to add to
01:08your vocabulary.
01:09Okay.
01:10So let's have a look then.
01:12So we have bit and bite, and then a bit means a little bit, or it's the past tense of the
01:24verb to bite.
01:25So, I bite, yesterday I bit, so it can be part of the same verb, but it can also mean...
01:36This can also be a noun meaning a little bit.
01:40Okay.
01:41Right.
01:42And then we have fat and fate, so a in fat, a in fate, so short and long.
01:54Right.
01:55Then we have gap and gape, a, a, gap, gape.
02:03So, a gap is a little space somewhere, and then to gape, it's a verb when you're sort
02:15of staring maybe with your mouth open like that in surprise, to gape.
02:22Okay.
02:23So, gap and gape.
02:27Then we have hop and hope, so this happens with different...
02:33We've already had now I, a, and now we have o, so it can happen with those different vowels,
02:43letters.
02:44Okay.
02:45So, hop and hope.
02:47So, if you hop, you're on one foot and you're...
02:52I won't do it, but you're jumping up and down on one leg, to hop, and then hope is a different
03:01meaning.
03:02Okay.
03:03Then we have not, note, o, o, not and note.
03:11Right.
03:12Then plan, plane, a, a, plan, plane.
03:21So, plane is short for aeroplane.
03:25Okay.
03:26Quit, quite.
03:30So, i, i, quit, quite.
03:35So, if you quit, you stop.
03:38You might be...
03:39You may be in a job and you don't like the job, so you decide to quit, to resign.
03:46So, it's usually quite an informal word.
03:50I quit.
03:51Okay.
03:52Quit, or anything you want to stop doing.
03:56I'm going to quit now.
03:58Something like that.
03:59Okay.
04:00Quit and then quite.
04:02So, if something is quite interesting, it's fairly interesting.
04:08That's quite.
04:10Okay.
04:11And then we have rip, ripe, i, i, rip and ripe.
04:19So, rip is if you tear a piece of paper, you're ripping the paper, or a piece of material.
04:27Rip, like that.
04:30And ripe is maybe with a piece of fruit, if it's just perfectly ready to eat, and juicy,
04:39like a...
04:40Well, let me think what would be nice.
04:44A peach, perhaps, when it's just the right sort of texture to eat.
04:49It's not too hard.
04:50It's a little bit soft, but not too soft.
04:55So, that's ripe, ready for eating.
04:58Okay.
04:59Then we have sit and sight.
05:04i, i, sit and sight.
05:08Okay.
05:09And strip and stripe.
05:13So, a strip of something is a long, narrow piece, like a ribbon, something like that.
05:20Or a strip of paper, a thin, narrow piece of paper that you tear.
05:25Or to strip as a verb means usually to take off your clothes.
05:33To strip.
05:34Okay.
05:35In a rather informal word.
05:37Okay.
05:38And then a stripe is a line.
05:43Stripe, stripes.
05:46A pattern of lines is a stripe.
05:52So, strip and stripe.
05:55And then we have tap, tape.
05:59So, again, different meaning.
06:01A tap, that's to tap.
06:05The verb, to tap, like that.
06:09Or a tap is when you need some water.
06:13You turn on the tap and water comes out in the sink.
06:18Or the wash basin is also a tap.
06:21But tape, tape is either a piece, a recording tape that you record onto.
06:29The old-fashioned recording technology.
06:33Or a tape can be, again, a strip.
06:37A strip of material that, in a thin strip, could be a tape.
06:44Right.
06:45And then we have, finally, trip and tripe.
06:49So, trip, i, and tripe, i.
06:54So, trip is like a journey.
06:57Or you can trip if you nearly fall over.
07:00You trip.
07:01And tripe, it's a kind of food that comes from the lungs of an animal.
07:10I don't know if people still eat that.
07:13I'm sure some people do.
07:15Tripe.
07:16Or it can be a kind of a metaphor, meaning rubbish or nonsense.
07:22That's a load of tripe, people say.
07:25A load of old tripe, meaning a lot of rubbish.
07:31So, okay.
07:33So, I'll just go once more through these, just quickly, for you to hear each one in a sort
07:40of natural, at a normal speed.
07:43Okay?
07:44So, bit, bite.
07:47Fat, fate.
07:50Gap, gape.
07:52Hop, hope.
07:54Not, note.
07:57Plan, plane.
08:00Quit, quite.
08:02Rip, ripe.
08:04Sit, sight.
08:07Strip, stripe.
08:10Tap, tape.
08:13Trip, stripe.
08:15Okay.
08:16So, that's it for today.
08:19I hope that's been useful for pronunciation and for vocabulary and for a bit of metaphor
08:27as well.
08:28So, thank you for watching and hope to see you again soon.
08:33Bye for now.