Teaching Consonants

1. CONSONANT
SOUNDS
Wednesday
19th October, 2022

2. Learning objectives
Identify consonant sounds
Articulate the sounds correctly
Identify the sounds in various words

3. Starter
1. DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN SOUNDS AND LETTERS
2. GIVE EXAMPLES TO ILLUSTRATE YOUR EXPLANATION(S)

4. DEFINITION
Voiced consonants are consonant sounds that are made by vibrating the vocal
cords.
Voiceless consonants do not use the vocal cords to produce their hard,
percussive sounds. Instead, they’re slack, allowing air to flow freely from the
lungs to the mouth, where the tongue, teeth, and lips engage to modulate the
sound.

5. VOICED AND VOICELESS CONSONANT
SOUNDS
• These consonants are voiced and voiceless pairs
/p/ /b/, /t/ /d/, /k/ /g/, /f/ /v/, /s/ /z/, /θ/ /ð/, /ʃ/ /ʒ/, /ʈʃ/ /dʒ/.
These consonants are voiced /h/, /w/, /n/, /m/, /r/, /j/, /ŋ/, /l/.

6. SILENT CONSONANT SOUNDS
Some English words have silent consonant sounds. From the
following examples, identify the silent consonant sounds:
dumb, tomb, limb, lamb, comb, bomb, autumn, wrap, castle,
could, calf, yacht, should, would, adjective, sign, ghost,
knock, knowledge, debt, honest, often, knight, wrestle,
hour, mortgage, listen, Christmas, sword, bridge etc

7. TASK 1
• Final -s
• Which sound do you hear?
• Which sound do you hear: /s/, /z/ or /iz/ ?
• waits___________ /s//z/ /iz/
• grades__________ /s/ /z/ /iz/
• dresses_________ /s/ /z/ /iz/
• laughs___________/s/ /z/ /iz/
• wishes___________/s/ /z/ /iz/
• gives____________/s/ /z/ /iz

8. TASK 2
• Final -ed
• Which sound do you hear?
• Which sound do you hear: /t/, /d/, or /id/ ?
• washed____________/t/ /d/ /id/
• cleaned____________/t/ /d/ /id/
• waited_____________/t/ /d/ /id/
• rented_____________/t/ /d/ /id/
• yelled_____________/t/ /d/ /id/
• fixed______________/t/ /d/ /id/
• danced____________/t/ /d/ /id/

9. CLASSWORK
• WRITE OUT 5 CONSONANT SOUNDS AND GIVE ONE WORD
FOR EACH, WHICH CONTAINS THE SOUND