Hello, I'm Jennifer and this English lesson is coming to you from Boston, Massachusetts. I'd like to help students of English practice the TH sound. For those of you who know phonetic transcriptions, I'm talking about this sound. Let's begin with a very short story. Imagine there's a young woman, Kathy, and she's going to move to a new apartment. She needs some help so she asks her friends Theo and Selma. The move goes well and what happens at the end? Let me show you a sentence to answer that question. Kathy thanked both Theo and Selma for everything. Try saying that with me. Kathy thanked both Theo and Selma for everything. There's a lot of TH sounds there. Kathy thanked both Theo and Selma for everything. Is it a little difficult to say that sentence? Don't worry. It's a challenging sound for many people from different countries, but like anything that's a little difficult, the more you practice the easier it gets. So how am I making that sound? You need to use your upper teeth, your lower teeth, and your tongue. Let me try explaining this way. I'm not an artist, so just imagine this is a better picture. Here's your upper teeth. Here's your lower teeth. And you want just the tip of your tongue to show between your teeth. Your teeth are gently touching your tongue. When you blow out air, you're going to do it just enough so that air can pass over your tongue and under. If you need to do it more slowly and exaggerate and practice, that's fine. And if you need to run to a mirror to make sure that just the tip of your tongue is showing, go ahead and do it. It's important when we practice to make sure that you're in the right position. Got it? Okay. So let's put the TH sound in some words. I'm going to put a short list of words on the board, and you're going to see the TH sound at the very beginning. As I write them, I'll say them, and you can repeat after me. Think. Think. Think. Think. Think. Think. Thought. Think. Thursday. You might also find the TH sound in the middle of words. This will be a shorter list. Again, I'll write the words, say it, and you can repeat. Author. Everything. Something. Nothing. As you can guess, I'm going to put one more list on the board, and this has the TH sound at the end. Both. Teeth. Path. Math. South. One more. Okay? Great. So now that we have practice with TH at the beginning in the middle and at the end of words, we're now going to see TH when it appears with other consonant sounds. For example, the end sound in month, or with numbers, tenths, or let's try, actually at the beginning and at the end, but here at the end, there are teens. You have the NTH at the end of the word month, tenth, thirteen. You might also hear the TH in combination with L. For example, in two very nice words, wealth and health, two things that we all want in life, right? Wealth and good health. A little more challenging for people tends to be the R plus TH. For example, at the beginning of a word, three. Throw. Throw. This is especially difficult. What you need to do is slow it down, even break it up. For example, you can say three, three, and then little by little, get faster, but keep it smooth. Three. Three. Got it? You might also have R plus TH at the end of a word, like in earth. Or the opposite of south, north. In the middle of a word, here's an example, birthday. You have to say that one correctly if you're going to wish someone a happy birthday. Now, that was just TH in combination with one other consonant sound. You might actually encounter the TH with a combination of other consonants. For example, depth, length, width. Do you know those words? I have my son's lunch box to help you remember if you don't remember what those words are. Or if this is the first time you're seeing them, let me explain. Length is how long something is. Width is how wide something is. And if you measure the depth, you found out how deep it is. Let's say then one more time. Length with depth. Okay? All right.