Pronunciation Practice Exercises for

fnals
Voiceless sounds
take /s/
Imagine the sound a
snake might make
...ssssssssss
Voiced sounds take /z/
Imagine the sound a
bee
might make...zzzzzzzz
These sounds take
/iz/
imilar to the !ord
"is"
These sounds are
voiceless:
/f/ /h/ /k/ /p/ /t/
These sounds are voiced:
/b/ /d/ /g/ /j/ /l/ /m//n/
/ng/ /r/ /v/ /w/ + all vowel
sounds
/s/ /ks/ /z/ /dg/
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laughs /laefs/
talks /toks/
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rubs / rubz/
sings /singz/
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kisses /kisiz/
boxes /boksiz/

Say the following words out loud and then put them in the correct columns
according to the sound of the plural or third person 's':

boys
cheues
closes
cooks
damages
earns
faces
girls
graduates
hates
hours
james!s
lessons
lives
loves
messages
minutes
paints
phrases
places
products
sandwiche
s
things
wants

/s/ /z/ /iz/









Pronunciation Practice Exercises for fnal s
Voiceless sounds
take /s/
Voiced sounds take /z/
Imagine the sound a
These sounds take
/iz/
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Imagine the sound a
snake might make
...ssssssssss
bee
might make...zzzzzzzz
imilar to the !ord
"is"
These sounds are
voiceless:
/f/ /h/ /k/ /p/ /t/
These sounds are voiced:
/b/ /d/ /g/ /j/ /l/ /m//n/
/ng/ /r/ /v/ /w/ + all vowel
sounds
/s/ /ks/ /z/ /dg/
E#$%P&E'
laughs /laefs/
talks /toks/
E#$%P&E:
rubs / rubz/
sings /singz/
E#$%P&E:
kisses /kisiz/
boxes /boksiz/

$ut the following words in the correct columns according to the sound of the
plural or third person 's':

boys
cheues
closes
cooks
damages
earns
faces
girls
graduates
hates
hours
james!s
lessons
lives
loves
messages
minutes
paints
phrases
places
products
sandwiche
s
things
wants

/s/ /z/ /iz/
cheques boys closes
cooks earns damages
graduates girls faces
hates hours Jamess
minutes lessons messages
paints lives phrases
products loves places
wants things sandwiches
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The words below can be cut out and put on cards or folded and used for a
game%
&% 'ivide students into teams%
(% $ut the following on the board:
/s/ /z/ /iz/
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)% *ave a student from each team choose a card and read it out loud%
+% Then have the student write the word on the board in the appropriate
column%
bo+s che,ues closes cooks
damage
s
earns faces girls
graduat
es
hates hours -amess
lessons li.es lo.es messag
es
minutes /aints /hras
es
/laces
/roduct
s
sand!ich
es
things !ants
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