Overview
Listen to and produce different speeches with reference to vowel sounds
Listen to and identify/ produce different speeches paying special attention to consonant clusters;
Listen to different speeches with particular reference to diphthongs.
What you'll learn
- Consonant clusters e.g. desks, asks, sickle, plants, planks, subject, barns, drive, school, respect, sprinkle, attacked, string, throw, please, principle, trick, strive, thrive, truth, amplify, apple, tactile, splash, spread, struggle, streams, strong, scream, screen, shutter, scatter.
- Diphthongs e.g. /ei/ as in: Mary /Meiri/, gate / geit/ ); day (/dei/); grey, they; pain: rain, train, slate, mate, weight; /ou/ as in: so, go, no, old, gold, told, sold, /Ͻi/ as in oil, boil, toil, coil; /uә / tour, sure.
- Weak forms e.g. after, often, listen, sister, above, away, later, alone, abound, about.