This presentation will help you familiarise yourself with the 24 consonant sounds of the English language. The Presentation contains all the digraph of each of the consonant sound and word examples for each digraph

2. Consonant Sound
There are twenty four consonant sound
in the English Language which are:
m p b f v θ ð n t d
s z l r ʃ ʒ tʃ dʒ j ŋ
k g w h

3. Mill, amuse, balm
Summer, hammer
m
mm
mb Plumber, thumb, comb

4. Pet, spill, gapp
ph Shepherd

5. Bun, above, globeb
bb Rubber

6. Fit
Affair, afford, staff
Photo, trophy, graph, nephew
f
ff
ph
gh Laughter, rough

7. v Vow, avoid, save

8. th Thought, atheist

9. th These, weather, with

10. No, another, pin
Banner, sunny
Knee, know
Gnat, sign
mnemonic
n
nn
kn
gn
mn
pn Pneumonia, pneumonic

11. Talk, active, saint
Thames, Thomas
Stepped, baked, crossed
t
th
ed
tt Letter, bottle

12. Day, adopt, hard
Ladder, sudden
d
dd
ed Bagged, called

13. Set, post, course
Essay, assume, brass
Exercise, tax
Scent, descend
s
ss
X(/ks/)
c
ps Psalm, psychology

14. Desert, reason, cause, days
Scissors, dessert
Puzzle, buzz
Zoo, ozone, zebra
s
ss
zz
z
X(/gz/) Exact, example

15. Lake, believe, reell
ll Thriller, bill

16. Ring
Arrive, hurry
Write, wrap, wrong
r
rr
wr
rh Rhythm, rhyme, rhetoric

17. Sheet, ashore, cash
Chassis, machine, moustache
Conscious, luscious
Schedule
Mansion, Asia
Sure, sugar
Assure
Mission, submission
Ocean
Nation, partial, essential
Provision, occasion
sh
ch
sci
sch
si
su
ssu
ssi
ce
ti
si
ci Special, musician

18. Usual, treasure, leisure
Azure, seizure
su
zu
ge Genre, garage, sabotage

19. Cheek, teacher
Butcher, catch
Picture, future, nature
ch
tch
ture
tion Question, suggestion

20. Joy, injure
Germ, engine
Suggest
Budget, lodge
Adjourn, adjust
j
g
gg
dg
dj
di Soldier

21. Onion, opinion, spaniel
Yet, yield, beyond
Feud
Beauty
Ewe
Lieu
Unit, refuse, huge
View, review
Suit
i
y
eu
eau
ewe
ieu
u
iew
ui
ue Due, value, argue

22. Hanger, singer, song
Tanker, think, bank
anchor
Uncle
ng
nk
nch
nc
nx Anxious, anxiety

23. Keeper, speaker, soak
Cap, act, panic
Chemist, alchemy, stomach
Pocket, luck, sick
Taxi, fox
k
c
ch
ck
x
cc Occasion, occult
Quite, sequencequ

24. Goal, begin, fog
Beggar, ragged
Example, exist
g
gg
X(/gz/)
gh Ghost, ghastly, aghast

25. Watch, aware, swan
When, where, awhile
Quiet, quick, require
w
wh
qu
gu Language, linguist

26. Hey, behindh
wh Who, whole