GAZİ UNIVERSITY 2023-2024 FALL TERM

COLLEGE OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES WEEK 7

“TH”
Sound
Exercises
1. Work in pairs, use your dictionaries to find the related th sound pronunciation and
practise the sentence “The thick thief under the three tree” till ensuring each other
that you perfectly produce the sounds.

2. Let’s do the same for the following mini reading text:

Three Things
These are the three things I like. I like thorns, mothers,
and birthday cakes. I like thorns because I like the thick,
beautiful roses that grow on the thorns. I like mothers
because they help me when I need help. I like birthday
cakes because you can eat as much as you want and get
sick! I think that's all because I said everything I
could think of.
3. Now, try to create your own absurd tongue twisters with “th” sound. Here are some
examples for you. You may also try to practise them, too.

 There those thousand thinkers were thinking how did the other three thieves go
though.
 Not these things here but those things there.
 I thought, I thought of thinking of thanking you.

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COLLEGE OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES WEEK 7

There are two TH sounds:

Th (ð) Th (θ)
Father Both
Mother Earth
Other North
Than Nothing
That South
The Thing
Their Think
Them Thought
Themselves Therapy
Then Thousand
There Three
Therefore Therapeutic
These Through
They Throw
They'd Thermal
They'll Thermometer
They're Thermostat
They've Thesaurus
This Thunder
Those Thank you
Though Theater
Thus Thesis
Together Thief
With Theory
Thick
Thin
Third
Thirsty
Thirty
Thorn
Thorough
Thread
Threat
Thrifty
Threshold
Throat
Thumb
Thursday

Taken from Program and Materials Development Unit Archive