Before a, o, u
Letter Combinations
Ch, tch
Ck
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[ s ]
[ k ]
[ ʧ ]
[ k ]
| face, city, bicycle
case, cat, cut, cool, coal
class, fact
watch, match, bench, chief
clock, thick, quick
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G
g
| Before e, i, y
Before a, o, u And consonant
Letter Combination
Ng
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[ ʤ ]
[ ɡ ]
[ŋ]
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page, age, engineer, gym
gate, got, gun, fog
great
bring, sing, ring
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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
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[ s ]
[ s ]
[ s ]
[z]
[z]
[ʒ]
[ s ]
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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
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[ w ]
[ w ]
[ h ]
[ r ]
| wind, was
when, where, what, why, white
who, whose, whom, whole
write, wrote, wrong
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Letter Combinations
-
| Bt
Ght
Gn
Kn
Ph
Qu
Sh
Ss + ion
Ss
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[ t ]
[ t ]
[ n ]
[ n ]
[ f ]
[ kw ]
[ ∫ ]
[ ∫n ]
[ s ]
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debt, doubt, subtle
dight, night, right
sign, design, reign
know, knife, knit
photo, philosophy
queen, question
wish, show, fresh
permission
passive, possible
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th
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At the beginning and end of notional words
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[θ]
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thin, thick, month, path
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At the beginning of auxiliary words, exclamations, adverbs and in inter-vocalic position
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[ð]
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the, this, that
those, thus, they
gather, bathe, weather
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Phonetic drills
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
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:
Something that is frightening. (for ex.: a deep cave)
Something that is expensive.
Someone who does a good job.
Someone who does not do a good job.
Something you like.
Something you don’t like.
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
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
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
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
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
Many men many minds. 2. Men may meet but mountains never. 3. What’s done cannot be undone.
[ ŋ ]
Seeing is believing. 2. Saying and doing are different things. 3. A creaking door hangs long on the hinges.
[ ŋk ], [ ŋɡ ]
First think then speak. 2. As the fool thinks, so the bell clinks. 3. Hunger is the best sauce.
[ n ], [ ŋ ]
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 ]
Far from eye, far from heart. 2. Fortune favours the brave. 3. Give every man thy ear, but very few thy voice.
[ ], [ ð ]
To go through thick and thin. 2. Wealth is nothing without health. 3. Birds of a feather flock together.
[ s ], [ z ]
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 ]
Cheapest is the dearest. 2. The last straw breaks the camel’s back. 3. Necessity is the mother of invention.
[ ∫ ], [ ʒ ]
A wolf in sheep’s clothing. 2. A measure for measure. 3. Eat at pleasure, drink with measure.
[ h ]
Habit cures habit. 2. He that has no head needs no hat. 3. High winds blow on high hills.
[ l ]
Let sleeping dogs lie. 2. Life is not all cakes and ale. 3. Look before you leap.
[ r ]
Respect yourself or no one will respect you. 2. Roll my log and I will roll yours. 3. Soon ripe, soon rotten.
[ j ]
As you make your bed, so you must lie in it. 2. No news is good news. 3. No herb will cure love.
[ w ]
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 ]
Plenty is no plague. 2. Out of place. 3. Clean as a pin.
[ pr ], [ tr ], [ kr ]
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 ]
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 ]
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]
Underline the part of the words where are two or more consonant letters together. The first three are done for you.
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Number of consonant letters
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Number of consonant sounds
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Number of consonant letters
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Number of consonant
sounds
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blood
jump
ticket
tablet
dollar
chair
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2
2
2
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2
2
1
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light
next
there
report
film
street
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