Special education of the republic of uzbekistan

Before a, o, u And consonant Letter Combinations Ch, tch Ck	[ s ] [ k ] [ ʧ ] [ k ]
face, city, bicycle case, cat, cut, cool, coal class, fact watch, match, bench, chief clock, thick, quick
G g	Before e, i, y Before a, o, u And consonant Letter Combination Ng	[ ʤ ] [ ɡ ] [ŋ]	page, age, engineer, gym gate, got, gun, fog great bring, sing, ring
S s	At the beginning of a word Before voiceless consonants After voiceless consonants After voiced consonants and vowels between vowels before suffixes - ion, - ure in the suffix – ous	[ s ] [ s ] [ s ] [z] [z] [ʒ] [ s ]	say, such, send, stop, speak rest, best, ask, test books, desks, asks, gets, puts beds, reads, boys, days, goes, factories rise, these, please occasion, pleasure, measure famous, numerous
W w	Before vowel Before h Letter Combinations Who Wr	[ w ] [ w ] [ h ] [ r ]	wind, was when, where, what, why, white who, whose, whom, whole write, wrote, wrong

Letter Combinations

	Bt Ght Gn Kn Ph Qu Sh Ss + ion Ss	[ t ] [ t ] [ n ] [ n ] [ f ] [ kw ] [ ∫ ] [ ∫n ] [ s ]	debt, doubt, subtle dight, night, right sign, design, reign know, knife, knit photo, philosophy queen, question wish, show, fresh permission passive, possible
th	At the beginning and end of notional words	[θ]	thin, thick, month, path
	At the beginning of auxiliary words, exclamations, adverbs and in inter-vocalic position	[ð]	the, this, that those, thus, they gather, bathe, weather

Phonetic drills

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1) Repeat the words.

[p] [b] [t] [d] [k] [ɡ ]

pay back talk dance kind give

park buy table date cook gate

page better tourist disco coffee guess

purple borrow tidy dollar colour going

postman business tennis different kitchen garden

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2) Repeat the words in box A, then repeat the words in box B.

A. deep patient comfortable B dentist teacher pain

beautiful dangerous colourful party doctor television

boring good bad terrible cook tiger cave bed

town garden camera

Work in pairs. Add words from A to words from B to find:

1. 
   Something that is frightening. (for ex.: a deep cave)
   
2. 
   Something that is expensive.
   
3. 
   Someone who does a good job.
   
4. 
   Someone who does not do a good job.
   
5. 
   Something you like.
   
6. 
   Something you don’t like.
   

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3) Repeat the words

[s] [z] [f] [v] [] [ð]

same zoo five voice thanks this

sit zebra phone very thought that

sister easy family village thief those

single amuse February visa thirteen their

Saturday cause photograph visitor Thursday they

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4. 
   Repeat the words
   

[ ∫ ] [ʧ ] [ ʒ] [ʤ]

short chair decision January

should cheap television June

shout check garage jump

shower choose pleasure jacket

shopping cheerful usually general

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5) The sound [∫] is normally spelt “sh” and the sound [t∫] – “ch”. However in some words they do have different spellings. Listen to these words and decide how the underlined letters are pronounced. Tick the correct box.

[∫ ] [t∫ ] [∫ ] [t∫ ]

information   special  

furniture   commercial  

education   temperature  

insurance   examination  

suggestion   picture  

profession   delicious  

question   station  

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6) Repeat these groups of words

[w] [r] [j] [l]
week radio yes last

west really year less

would river young learn

wallet reason yours listen

white recently yellow language

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7) Repeat the words.

[m] [n] [ŋ]

many name bring

make near long

mend nobody spring

milk news strong

mouth number finger

8) Practise reading the following phrases and sentences:

[ p ], [ t ], [ k ]

1. 
   Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves. 2. To tell tales out of school. 3. To carry coals to Newcastle.
   

[ sp ], [ st ], [ sk ]

1. 
   Strictly speaking. 2. To call a spade a spade. 3. To praise to the skies.
   

[ b ], [ d ], [ ɡ ]
1. A good dog deserves a good bone. 2. To beat about the bush. 3. To give the devil his due.
[ ʧ ], [ ʤ ]
1. Children are poor men’s riches. 2. Little knowledge is a dangerous thing. 3. He that mischief hatches mischief catches.
[ m ], [ n ]

1. 
   Many men many minds. 2. Men may meet but mountains never. 3. What’s done cannot be undone.
   

[ ŋ ]

1. 
   Seeing is believing. 2. Saying and doing are different things. 3. A creaking door hangs long on the hinges.
   

[ ŋk ], [ ŋɡ ]

1. 
   First think then speak. 2. As the fool thinks, so the bell clinks. 3. Hunger is the best sauce.
   

[ n ], [ ŋ ]

1. 
   No living man all things can. 2. Better die standing than live kneeling. 3. Among the blind the one-eyed man is king.
   

[ f ], [ v ]

1. 
   Far from eye, far from heart. 2. Fortune favours the brave. 3. Give every man thy ear, but very few thy voice.
   

[  ], [ ð ]

1. 
   To go through thick and thin. 2. Wealth is nothing without health. 3. Birds of a feather flock together.
   

[ s ], [ z ]

1. 
   The least said the soonest mended. 2. Slow and steady wins the race. 3. Speech is silver, but silence is gold.
   

[ s – ð ] , [ z – ð ]

1. 
   Cheapest is the dearest. 2. The last straw breaks the camel’s back. 3. Necessity is the mother of invention.
   

[ ∫ ], [ ʒ ]

1. 
   A wolf in sheep’s clothing. 2. A measure for measure. 3. Eat at pleasure, drink with measure.
   

[ h ]

1. 
   Habit cures habit. 2. He that has no head needs no hat. 3. High winds blow on high hills.
   

[ l ]

1. 
   Let sleeping dogs lie. 2. Life is not all cakes and ale. 3. Look before you leap.
   

[ r ]

1. 
   Respect yourself or no one will respect you. 2. Roll my log and I will roll yours. 3. Soon ripe, soon rotten.
   

[ j ]

1. 
   As you make your bed, so you must lie in it. 2. No news is good news. 3. No herb will cure love.
   

[ w ]

1. 
   Where there’s a will there’s a way. 2. When the wine is in the wit is out. 3. Time works wonders.
   

[ pl ], [ kl ]

1. 
   Plenty is no plague. 2. Out of place. 3. Clean as a pin.
   

[ pr ], [ tr ], [ kr ]

1. 
   Prosperity makes friends, and adversity tries them. 2. Don’t trouble trouble until trouble troubles you. 3. Crows don’t pick crows’ eyes.
   

[ fr ], [ str ], [ r ], [ skr ]

1. 
   To throw straws against the wind. 2. A friend in need is a friend indeed. 3. Scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours.
   

[ sw ], [ tw ], [ kw ]

1. 
   No sweet without sweat. 2. He gives twice who gives quickly. 3. Between and betwixt.
   

Consonant Clusters


A consonant cluster is found when two or more consonant sounds come together. For example, the word “spell” begins with the consonant cluster [sp] and the word “against” ends with the consonant cluster [nst]

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Underline the part of the words where are two or more consonant letters together. The first three are done for you.

	Number of consonant letters	Number of consonant sounds		Number of consonant letters	Number of consonant sounds
blood jump ticket tablet dollar chair	2 2 2	2 2 1	light next there report film street