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
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Phonetic drills Ω 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 Ω 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.
Ω 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 Ω 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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Ω 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
Ω 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 Ω 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.
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[ 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 ], [ ŋ ɡ
] 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.
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[ 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