PRONUNCIATION

How many
consonants
are there in
English?
1 How to pronounce sounds
2 Common spelling patterns
3 Practice
4 Exercises
How to pronounce consonannts
Lips

Air

Vocal
cords
 1 Put your lower lip touch
to your upper teeth
/f/
2 Blow air out of the mouth
 Do not vibrate the vocal cords

1 Put your lower lip touch to

/v/ your upper teeth
2
Blow air out of the mouth
 Vibrate the vocal cords
/f/ /v/
The similar: lips and teeth
The differences: vocal cords
 finger vase
/'fiɳgə/ /vɑ:z/
 coffee violin
/’ kɔfi/ /vaiə´lin/
 farm
Common spelling patterns of /f/
photo
f farm, fresh, finish, …
ff office, staff, off, … difficult
/f/ photo, elephant, graph,
ph … leaf
laugh, cough, …
gh
friend
Common spelling patterns of /v/
vet
/v/ v vet, driver, give… driver
van
visit
above
 Let’s practise
/t/ and /d/ in sentences

It’s a photo of a falling leaf

/f/ /f/ /f/
The van driver arrived at five o’clock
/v/ /v/ /v/ /v/
EXERCISE
 Exercise 1: Choose the different sounds

a. file b. find c. van d. found

a. visa b. give c. vast d. fun
a. evening b. after c. lovely d. travel

a. visa b. finger c. photo d. staff

 Exercise 2: Listen and match

volcano van elephant face

Exercise 3: Listen and circle
1. visa a. /v/ b. /f/
2. food a. /f/ b. /v/
3. over a. /f/ b. /v/

4. fix a. /v/ b. /f/

 Exercise 4: Listen and fill

1.V_icky lo_es
v the v_iew o_f the v_olcano v_ery much.

2. That cal_
f is running _ast
f in the _ield.
f