P and F drills

For P and F, they are the opposite of B and V. This is because they are voiceless.

/p/

• press your lips together
• let the air explode from between them
• do not add your voice!!!
• note: this is the same position as /b/, but without your voice

/f/

• rest your upper front teeth on your lower lip
• don't press too hard, make sure there is space between them for air to pass through
• blow air gently through
• note: this is the same position as /v/, except that it is voiceless.

Drills

/p/                                           /f/

plea                                      flee

vampire                                samphire

pace                                    phase 

supper                                 suffer

/p/

1. Lap up the milk, pretty kitten.
2. Pinch the pampered pets and plead guilty.
3. Patty pruned her petunias before September.
4. I spent plenty of time preparing for class.

/f/

1. I felt fulfilled before I even met Fred.
2. Frank played the fiddle while Farrah finished cleaning the fireplace.
3. Fancy knowing federal agents are flat-footed.
4. Fat flower bugs feed on fizzy water.

TONGUE TWISTERS

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked. If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

Fancy Fiona thinks she is cool. But people know that she is a fool. Feeling perfect and circumspect, she faces people with fabulous cool. But Fiona, fancying herself an expert on needle-thin heels, started walking ferociously forward. Needless to say, we found the fool in the pool.