English Highway Podcast

Pronunciation: /r/ Clusters (#0312)

Practice consonant combinations that contain the /r/ sound.

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lesson.
Today we're going to focus on words that begin with consonant
combinations that contain an r.
A consonant combination is a group of two or three consonants that
are all together, not separated by any vowels. For example, the
letters br as in brick. Repeat after me:
BRbrick
br
brick
That's a consonant combination. The two consonants, b and r,
are together. Here's another one:
CRAs in credit
Repeat after me:
credit
Here's another example:
DRAs in driver
driver
Consonant combinations are very common in English so let's keep
practicing them. Here's another one:
FRAs in France

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France
Good job. Here's another:
GRAs in green
Repeat after me:
green
Good job. We can also have:
PRAs in price
Can you say that?
price
Good job. Another one is the t and the r. They come together to
form words like:
trip
trip
The last one we'll work with is thr
as in:
throw
That's a complicated one. Repeat after me:
throw
thru
That's it. You got it. That's lots of combinations but don't worry.
With a lot of practice, you'll get it. So repeat after me:
DRdrive
drive
drag
Good job. That was the dr combination. Now let's practice with
the tr combination. Repeat after me:
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TRtruly
truly
truck
And again:
truck
Way to go. Now let's practice with the pr combination, as in:
PRprove
Come on, repeat after me:
prove
promise
And again:
promise
Good job. Now let's move to the gr combination. Repeat after
me:
GRgreat
And again:
great
gray
Come on, that's the color gray:
gray
You're doing great. Let's keep at it. Now to the br combination.
Repeat after me:
BRbring

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And again:
bring
hybrid
hybrid
Good job. Now to the fr combination. Repeat after me:
FRFrench
fries
French fries
Good job. Here's another common word. Repeat after me:
free
French fries are free."
Good job. Now let's practice with the cr combination. Repeat
after me:
CRcry
create
And again:
create
Good job. Here's the last consonant combination. We're going to
work with the thr. So repeat after me:
THRthru
thru
throw
throw
Here's another one. Repeat after me:

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thrust
And again:
thrust
Good job.
Now, lets try some sentences using these r
combinations. Repeat after me:
Let's test drive his truck.
drive
truck
Good job. Repeat after me:
Let's test drive his truck.
You got it. Here's another example. Repeat after me:
Throw me the gray keys.
throw
gray
Throw me the gray keys.
Way to go. Here's another example. We have three more to go.
Give it your best and repeat after me:
Lets stop at the drive thru.
drive
thru
drive thru
Good. One more time:
Lets stop at the drive thru.
Great. Let's keep going. Two more sentences to go, repeat after
me:
We got French fries and drinks.
French fries
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drinks
That's good. One more time:
We got French fries and drinks.
Last sentence, I hope you're ready. Repeat after me:
Lets create a new hybrid.
create
hybrid
Lets create a new hybrid.
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Additional practice: Consonant combinations that contain an r.

Words:
brick
credit
driver
France
green
price
trip
throw
thru
drive
drag
truly
truck
prove
promise
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great
gray
green
bring
hybrid
French
fries
French fries
free
cry
create
thrust
drinks
Sentences:
Let's test drive his truck.
Throw me the gray keys.
Lets stop at the drive thru.
We got French fries and drinks.
Lets create a new hybrid.

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