British Pronunciation – Beer and Bear – /ɪə/ and /eə/

welcome back a few of you messaged us
saying that you have problems with the
sounds ear and air so today we’re doing
a quick practice on those two sounds for
this lesson I need you to repeat with me
so you can practice these two sounds so
here this one is my ear what I breathe
is the air ear air to get the difference
between those two sounds you have to
open your mouth it’s not good enough
just to move the lips for example ear
air there’s a little change in the sound
you can kind of hear it but you need to
open the mouth fully not too much but
more so your mouth needs to just open
more let me show you
ear air see the difference ear air it’s
not good enough ear air ear air ear
doesn’t work air that works so we’ve
started with here and why breathe air
let’s imagine I’m a caveman and I have a
spear
my friend comes to me and he wants to
know do you have an extra spear he could
say do you have a spare spear say with
me spare spear spare spear next one what
am i doing I’m having a drink of beer
and Who am i drinking with a bear I’m
drinking beer with a bear beer there
beer there I’m drinking beer with a bear
the last and most disgusting example
what is this ear ear hair ear hair
yeah I’m not even sorry for these
examples anymore because I know they’re
disgusting but you will remember them
see in the next class thank you thank
you Thursday Thursday
nothing nah fairy where’s Tom outside or
out of the pool
where’s the fish on a plate