HOW TO PRONOUNCE TH

How to pronounce "th" in English

This is Thanksgiving

06/10/18

"the" "those" "that" "this" "than" " others"

/ð/

Try to pronounce these sentences as fast as you can.

• Whether the weather is cold, whether the weather is hot, we’ll weather the weather, whatever the weather.

• There is my brother from another mother.

/ð/

"thug " "thanks" "Three" "thankful" "theory" " Throne"

/θ/

Try to pronounce these sentences as fast as you can.

• Three thin panthers in the bathroom.
• I thought a thought but the thought I thought wasn’t the thought I thought I thought if the thought I thought I thought had been the thought I thought, wouldn’t have thought so much.
• Aunt Beth has thick cheeks, thin lips, three teeth, and thin mouth

/ð/

Put the words in the right column

/ð/ as in "there"

/θ/as in "thanks"

The Tongue Twister game:

Get into teams of about five people and look at these questions: Write a first name What did she/he do? Where? When? Why? Because …

1. On a piece of blank paper write your answer to question 1 using a name with "th" in it (eg: Mathew)
2. Pass the paper to the person on your right. Write an answer to question 2 on the paper you have just received still choosing words with "th" (e.g. Mathew threw his clothes).
3. Pass the paper on again and write an answer to question 3, using words with "th" again (e.g. Mathew threw his clothes in the bath).
4. Continue until all the questions have been answered.
5. Read all of the tongue twisters aloud.