PRONUNCIATION: long a /a:/

Do you remember 🤔💭 the sounds 🔈 for English a 🔴🔵⚪ ?
Today we focus on 1 of them /a:/.
It is a long sound 🔊.
Play ▶️ the video 🎥 at 0.75 speed.

What about these words 🗣️? Are they pronounced 😜 with short 🔉 /ʌ/ or medium 🔊 /æ/ or long  🔊 /a:/?
You can revise sounds /ʌ/ and /æ/ in this last week post.

Then, write ✍️ the words in three 3️⃣ groups.

Bat 🦇, start 🚦, fan 🌬️, sun ☀️, car 🚗, bus 🚌, love ❤️, man 👨‍💼, duck 🦆, bar 🍺☕🍽️, bag 🛍️, jam 🍯🍓, calm 😌☮️, luck 🍀🤞, glass 🥂, star 🌟, plum 🍑💜, shark 🦈, black 🖤, arm 💪, cup ☕, far ➡️➡️🗺️, bug 🐛🐜🐞🦗, flag 🇦🇺, rat 🐀,  bad 😈, heart , pan 🍳, fun 😂🎉, park 🏞️🎢, bun 🍞, hat 🎩👒, hard 🔩🔩.

🚨 Lots of words with "u" are pronounced /ʌ/. But not all of them!
🚨 Letter "r" after the vowel sound usually makes it loooooong! 🔊🔊.
🚨 You can check ☑️ and listen 🎧 to them in our online dictionary 🖥️📔.

👉 Then, you can play 🎮 Wordsearch 🔎, Hangman 🚶 or Anagrams 📝 with long a /a:/ words ⬇️⬇️.
👉 I recommend to start 🚦 with Anagrams 📝, then Hangman 🚶 and finally, Wordsearch 🔎.

💰 BONUS: you can also send 📩 to me sentences with the words. They can be sent 📩 by audio 👂 or written 📝.

Let's go! 💪