Sentence Building: Both LIVE Sounds (Set 1)

Story: Music on the Street

How to play

This story mixes both sounds. After you build each sentence, do the Sound Check: decide if each live word sounds like five or give.

FIVE /laɪv/

live sounds like five
live music, live TV, lively, liven up, alive

GIVE /lɪv/

live sounds like give
I live in Chicago, she lives, lived, living

The story is about Mireille and her neighbor Taro, a guitar player.

  1. Click the word tiles to put them in order. Punctuation tiles are yellow.
  2. Click a tile in the answer box to take it out, or use ↶ Undo and ⟲ Reset.
  3. Click ✔ Check. Stuck? Click 🔊 Listen to hear the sentence.
  4. When the sentence is correct, answer the ⭐ Sound Check.

Build the story

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