introduction to phonemic symbols

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English alphabet

consists of 26 letters

around 44 sounds20 vowels and 24consonants.

A vowel sound is a sound produced withoutblocking the air flow from the mouth with ourteeth, tongue or lips.

A consonant sound is a sound produced byblocking the air flow from the mouth with theteeth, tongue or lips.


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IPA

International Phonetic Alphabet is the most

widely used set of symbols for showing the

sounds of a language.

A phonemic symbol is a letter which

represents a sound.


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Vowel sounds


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Consonant sounds


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Match the words with their

pronunciation


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Lets try to read this!

then

though

that

thought

think

thoroughly

throughout throat

tough


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Digraph

a combination of two letters or characters

used to represent a single speech sound such

as ch, sh, th, wh, qu, etc.

E.g. sh in shoe

Diphtong two vowel sounds pronounced as

one syllable


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Syllable

Is a word or part of a word that has one vowel

sound. It may also have one or more

consonant sounds.

e.g. Mother, mum


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Word stress

Is the pattern of strong and weak syllables in a

word.

Party - ['pa:ti]


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Vowels


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How many vowel letters do you know?

R: There are 5 vowel letters.

How many vowel sounds do you know?R: approximately twenty.


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Circle all the /i:/ sound and

underline all the // sounds :

big, busy, dinner, give, green, in, listen, meet,

office, people, pizza, please, repeat, six, tea,

three, lead, lid, wheat, wit, been, bin, cheek,

chick, feel, fill, reach, rich


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/u:/ is a long sound and it is

spelled as oo, oe, ou, u, ue, ew

group, shoe, blue

When the spelling is u or ew there is a /j/sound before the /u:/

Music, new

But: two, fruit, juice/ju:/ is the name of the letter U in the alphabet.


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// is a short sound and it is

usually spelled as u, oo, ou:

full, sugar, book, foot, would


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Circle the words with the sound /u:/:

Food, four, June, look, news, room, school, soup,

spoon, sugar, town, Tuesday, two

Circle the words with the sound //:

Book, cookery, cough, could, good, looking,

lunch, soon, sugar, thought, through


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Write the words under the right

sound

the sound // the sound /a:/

Luck, cud, barks, lark, card, dark, duck, last, lust,

carp, cup, bucks


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// is a short vowel andusually spelled o and sometimes a.

Bottle, box, holiday, chocolate, clock, coffee,

copy, cost, cross, doctor, dog, gone, got, holiday,hospital, hot, job, lock, long, lost, lot, not, off,

often, possible, shop, song, sorry, stop, top,

wrong, quality, want, wash, watch, what

NB: the word wasis sometimes pronounced

with //


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is a long sound and has different spellings:

a all, ball, call, fall, tall

al talk, walk, au autumn, aw sawaugh caught, daughter, taught

ough bought, thought

ar quarter, warm

or born, short, sort

oor door, floor

ore before, more

our four


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// is a long sound and spelled

ir, or, ur, our, ear, er.

Ir bird, first, birthday, circle, thirtyOr word, work, world, worse, worst

Ur turn, Thursday

Our journeyEar early, earth, heard, learn

Er service, Germany, prefer


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Put the words into the correct

groups


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/e/ is a long sound and is spelled in different

ways:

are care, square

air air, chair, fari, hari

ear wear

ere where

aer aeroplane


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/a/is a long sound and id spelled in different

ways

i like, time, white

ie die

y dry, July, whyigh high, night, right

uy buy


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/a/is a long sound and usually spelled as

ow how now vowel

ou loud, mouth sound


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