CONSONANT SOUNDS

EXERCISE

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 Difference between Voiced and Unvoiced Sounds

❖ What is the difference in the pronunciation of the underlined

sound?

Cheese Mouse
/tʃiːz/ /maʊs/

It is not always possible to tell

whether a sound is voiced or voiceless from its spelling.
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Listen and decide which of the 2 words on the right, contains the voiced consonant sound.

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 Fricatives /f/, /v/, /s/, /z/, /ʃ/, /ʒ/. Let’s read and listen these lines.

❖ Fight for values, live for laughter.

Have you phoned all of Vincent’s friends?.

❖ This soup is losing its taste so let’s sprinkle some salt.

It’s zero degrees, I’m freezing! Please start the heaters.

❖ Unfashionable casual shirts surely shocked the regime.

Asian fusion chefs are usually passionate about fish.

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 Fricatives /θ/, /ð/, /h/. Let’s read and listen these lines.

❖ I think the path is further than that.

This is neither the North nor the South.

❖ Hundred of horses’ hooves hid the horrific hilltop.

His house happened to be inhabited by hungry
hedgehogs.

Do Exercise 1 and 2.
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 /θ/ Let’s read these lines.

❖ Martha Smith’s an author and

an athlete.

❖ Three thin panthers in the bathroom.

❖ Aunt Beth has thick cheeks, thin lips,

three teeth and thin mouth.

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 /ð/ Let’s read these lines.

❖ My father and brother live together with my another brother.

❖ Is it this, that, those, these, and there or for when that I eat
this?

❖ Whether the weather is cold, whether the weather is hot,

- we’ll weather the weather, whatever the weather.

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 . /θ/ or /ð/ Now try this mixed one.

They thankfully think

this thing is the best thing
that they can throw the three times
they need to throw a thing.

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 /θ/ or /ð/

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