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In today’s English Language class, We will be doing a revision of Consonant Sounds. We hope you enjoy the class!
Speech work: Revision of Consonant Sounds.
Consonants are sounds that are produced with some obstruction in the speech passage. In their production, two organs of speech normally come together to close the speech passage totally or partly. In English, we have twenty-four consonants. Some of these sounds are represented by symbols which generally correspond with the letters of the English alphabet, while others are not.
Below are the consonant sounds of English with examples of words that contain them.
- / p/
‘p’ – pain, promise, nap, improve
‘pp’ – pepper, apple, supply
2) / b /
‘b’ – baby, break, disturb
‘bb’ – babble, robber, rubble
3) / k /
‘c’ – cat, record, conflict
‘ck’ – crack, rack, black
‘ch’ – chemical, chaos, Christ
‘k’ – king, keg, key
‘q’ – queue, cheque
‘cc’ – account, occupy, occasion
4) / g /
‘g’ – goat, gun, bag
‘gg’ – haggle, baggage, biaer
‘gh’ – ghost, ghastly
5) / t /
‘t’ – two, active, study
‘tt’ – attack, matter, bottle
‘d’ – kicked, missed, slapped
‘th’ – Thomas, thyme, Thames
6) /d/
‘d’ – do, den, duty, bed
‘dd’ – daddy, muddy, paddle
7) /s /
‘s’ – so, send, saviour
‘ss’ – miss, glass, cross
‘ce’ – rice, glance, slice
‘zz’ – pizza
‘x’ – axe, tax, pixels
‘sc’ – science, sceptre, scent
8) / z /
‘z’ – zero, zip, dozen
‘zz’ – buzz, dazzle, muzzle
‘s’ – rise, says, does
‘ss’ – possess, scissors
‘x’ – example, exit, exult
9) / l /
‘I’ – lip, listen, below
‘ll’ – wall, silly, yellow
10) / m /
‘m’ – many, came, member
‘mm’ – stammer, mummy
‘mb’ – lamb, bomb, climb
‘mn’ – condemn, damn, hymn
11) / n /
‘n’ – no, snob, bend
‘nn’ – banner, manner, annual
‘pn’ – pneumonia, pneumatic
‘kn’ – know, knock, knee
‘gn’ – gnat, gnash, sign
12) /w/
‘w’ – wear, watch, woman
‘wh’ – why, while, wheel
13) / h /
‘h’ – hope, house, mishap
‘wh’ – whole, whore
14) / ŋ /
‘ng’ – sing, young, long
‘nk’ – sink, bank, ink
‘nc’ – anchor, uncle, zinc
‘nx’ – anxious
15) / j /
‘y’ – yam, year, you
‘u’ – use, unity, utensil
‘eu’ – Europe, eunuch, Eunice
‘l’ – onion, opinion
16) / ʃ /
‘s’ – sure, sugar, explosion
‘sch’ – schedule, schwa
‘sh’ – shabby, relish, shrub
‘ss’ – mission, pressure, possession
‘ch’ – machine, chef, champagne
‘ci’ – precious, vicious, spacious
‘t’ – nation, promotion
17) / r /
‘r’ – rain, story, scream
‘rr’ – hurry, carrot, worry
‘rh’ – rhetoric, rhyme, Rhoda
18) / f /
‘f’ – farm, proof, soft
‘ff’ – cliff, Clifford, stuff
‘gh’ – rough, laugh, enough
‘ph’ – physics, Philips, chlorophyll
19) / v /
‘v’ – vigour, revoke, Victor
‘ph’ – Stephen
20) / θ /
‘th’ – think, thank, wealth, faith, oath, author, path, breath
21) / ð /
‘th’ – than, that, those, they, gather, breathe, smooth
22) / ʒ /
‘s’ – measure, treasure, pleasure, explosive
‘sion’ – confusion, decision, explosion, conclusion
‘ge’ – garage, mirage, camouflage
23) / tʃ /
‘ch’ – church, choose, search
‘tu’ – future, fracture
24) / dʒ /
‘j’ – jug, jacket, Jesus
‘g’ – George, badge, germ, ginger, gibe, gin
Evaluation:
Write three words that contain each of the sounds below:
/d3/
/g/
/j/
/t/
/k/
/m/
/b
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