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Pronunciation: Sh, Ch, J, and Y Sounds

Minimal Pairs

shoe	chew	Jew	major	mayor	etch	edge
she	chi	gee	watching	washing	witch	wish
shear	cheer	jeer	year	etcher	catch	cash
ship	chip	yip	pager	payer	Midge	Mitch
shack	Jack	yak	bridges	britches	leash	leech
shin	chin	gin	lashing	latches	badge	batch
shell	gel	yell	ageless	h-less	much	mush

Challenging Words

jail	chest	stranger	exchange
share	shrew	shrinking	voyager
yawn	jinks	fragile	jealousy
child	chicken	Yankee	January
sheaf	kitchen	genealogy	childishness
chief	midget	shadowy	ingenuity
yeast	yearly	Jill	yen

In Phrases

cash register	a jet engine	which is which?
Generation X	Cajun chicken	year of the jackal
wishy-washy	a jazz musician	the Challenger tragedy
wedge issues	yellow jacket	tragedy
New Jersey shore	place your wager	pickled jellyfish

Dialogue

A: Which university did you go to?

B: I went to Yale/jail.

A: Oh yeah? When did you graduate/get out?

B: I never finished the last term.

A: What did the genie give you.

B: Three wishes/witches.

A: Oh really? What did you use/need them for?

B: A magic ride in the night sky.

Oral Reading

Jerry and Sherry were very fond of cherry jelly. Every year in July, they would jump in their jeep and head for the orchard, where they would pick a few bushels of the fruit in a jiffy. Then they would carry their cherished treasure to Sherry's house, where they would proceed to change the berries into their favorite treat. They used and old-fashioned recipe, which called for sugar, gelatin, and of course, jillions of cherries. They stirred the mixture in a huge aluminum pot, then gently poured it into shallow jars. They shared a few samples with the children, but the majority of the batch would be saved until January or February when they could enjoy it even more.