Sunday, 31 July 2016

Write in phonetics

Write in phonetics the past tense of the following verbs:


Infinitive
Past tense
Infinitive
Past tense
Infinitive
Past tense

help
 love
escape
declare
surround
change
own
juge
absorve
dictate
cook
paint
pay
perpetrate
punch
appear
resign
soar
trouble
wash
wait
travel
stop



cope
like
dismiss
display
doze
earn
stay
empower
decode
endow
engage
pinch
place
propose
prove
receive
reproach
touch
trust
warn
trust
deduct
exclaim


establish
estimate
evoke
expect
faint
fertilize
quarrel
judge
jump
kick
leap
move
obey
outrage
reckon
regret
release
toss
wait
woo
describe
bargain
borrow

Monday, 25 July 2016

CONSONANTS B >< V


Speakers of some languages do not distinguish between b and v but English does and the difference is relevant for meaning:

ban > < van        bat >< vat           bet >< vet           best >< vest
bile >< vile          bin >< vin            been >< vin        beam >< vim
 bip >< VIP        bow >< vow        by >< vie             bent >< vent
bale >< veil       bolt >< voltt       bowl >< vowel    boat >< vote       

Friday, 22 July 2016

Tuesday, 19 July 2016

Sunday, 17 July 2016

Any questions about connected speech?

weak form of and
followed by consonant:

fish and chips (fish´n chips)
a chair and a table (a chair and a table)


+ Info here:

Friday, 15 July 2016

Write the spelling of these Proverbs SOLUTION

1)  Pen and ink is wit’s plaugh
2)   United we stand, divided we fall
3)   Fools bite one another, wise men agree together
4)   Praise youth and it will prosper

5)   True praise roots and spreads

Saturday, 9 July 2016

Write in phonetics the following words:


brown
crown
cow
claw
frown
elbow
crowd
row
now
show
law
pillow
dawn
straw
shadow
wallet
arrow



clown
brow
town
saw
down
flower
sorrow
raw
fowl
walk
sow
howl
two
paw
towel
prawn
avow


Thursday, 7 July 2016

Diphthong [əu]




go
no
so


cold
folk
ghost

sold
told
post


abode
awoke
broke

coke
cope

drove
hole
joke

mole
note

poke
pope
rode

slope
smoke

spoke
stole
stroke

wardrobe
woke



boat
cloak
coat

coach
cockroach

foam
goad
load

moan
oak
oath

road
toad
toast



doe
foe
hoe
toe


arrow
bungalow
barrow

elbow
follow
furrow

glow
grow
low

morrow
narrow
ow

pillow
rainbow
row

scarecrow
slow
sorrow
sow

tomorrow
throw
town

willow
window


Read aloud the words above. Add more.


The main problem are the words ending in -ow because this grapheme can also be pronounced [au]