Normal a and Italian a

Position review:

Normal a (a)

• Drop your jaw. The tension is only slight.

Italian a (ɒ)

• Open your mouth (like normal a)
• Your lips are rounded, in the o position

These two sounds quite distinct. Generally, they are believed to be the same by most people. However, pay attention. The smallest differences can mean everything.

Drill time! (Unfortunately, the words don't rhyme because it's a little hard to find words that rhyme for these two sounds *sweat drop* sorry about that)

Normal a (ɑ)                               Italian a (ɒ)

                                                father                                          pauper

                                                arm                                             dot

                                                cart                                             cloth
                                                farm                                            moth

Normal a (ɑ)
1. Father never bothers to close the door.
2. Part the farmland into halves.
3. My arms are tired from pushing the cart.

Italian a  (ɒ)
1.  An awful rock blocked us.
2. There's not a pot in sight.
3. I bought a lawn bauble.

TONGUE TWISTER

Gobbling gargoyles gobbled gobbling goblins. 

When you write copy, you have the right to copyright the copy you write. You can write good and copyright, but copyright  doesn't mean copy good - it might not be the right good copy, right?

**Note:
Tongue Twister 1 was taken from this webby , while Tongue Twister 2 was taken from here.
**Note 2:
I changed the spelling of gargoyles because it was incorrectly spelled.
**Note 3:
Word drills may be incorrectly displayed. Still working on it. Sorry.