Lesson 11: Y and L

( R /W and L)
How to pronounce /l/ sound, school, ball, tell

 The L sound starts with your tongue touching the top of your mouth then
coming down as your throat vibrates from the bottom of your throat.

 The L ending: When you make the L ending, remember to slowly raise your
tongue upward, towards your upper teeth, while keeping your bottom jaw as
open as possible.

Ex:
Beginning Middle End

Lunch Believe Will

Local Volume
Ball
London Glue
Learn Elevator Tall
Large Solve
Call
Life Pulling
Lobby Flood Small
Library Delete
Lucky Elect Bowl
Lift Alive Apple
Laugh Color Powerful
Long Control
Financial
People

Linking sound: thank, ten

1. Sell it now
2. Tell us everything
 3. Do you feel OK?
4. Will you go?
5. How do you spell ‘whale’?
6. Tell me all you know.
7. Tom will look for the key
L blends
With L blends, say the sound of the consonant separately from the L sound
Practice:
Slurp Sly
Fly Gloom
y
Flam
e Slick
Black Place
Glad Play

A flea and a fly, flew up in a flue.

Said the flea, “Let us fly!”

Said the fly, “Let us flee!”

So they flew through a flaw in the flue.

ee/ai/i + L

With ee and ai before L, there is a small uh before the L ending. Example, Feel
becomes FeeuhL and file becomes FIuhL.
Practice:
Smil Eel
e
Real
Mile
Peel
Meal
Stea
 Deal l
Styl
e

With i sounds, there is no uh before the L since i is a short sound.

Practice:
Fill Wil
l
Mil
l Bill
Dill Pill
Hill Gill
Jill Stil
l

Practice Sentences: (7 min)

Wasn’t she the person that asked for these files?
Even though we told them not too, they still like to steal.
The mall was far too small for that tall couple.