The Alphabet ()
Vowels ()
| I- | II- | ||
| [ ei ] | [ ei ] take | [ æ ] cat | |
| O o [ əu ] | [ əu ] rose | [ ɔ ] dog | |
| U u [ ju: ] | [ ju: ] music | [ Λ ] cup | |
| E e [ i: ] | [ i: ] we | [ e ] pet | |
| I i / Y y [ ai / wai ] | [ ai ] bike [ ai ] fly | [ i ] pig [ i ] mystery |
- 1) , . 2) . . "e" .
Examples: home, five, make, close, snake, nice, nose, go, he, she, try, fry, ride, tune.
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Examples: six, big, bad, sad, it, fox, frog, red, ten, mum, jump, but, funny, angry, long.
Consonants ()
| C | [S] | e, i, y | city, face |
| [k] | cat, car | ||
| G | [dʒ] | e, i, y | page, large |
| [g] | big, game | ||
| X | [ks] | fox, box | |
| [gz] | exam, example | ||
| W | [w] | , wh + , o" | water, when |
| wr | write, wrong | ||
| R | [r] | red, cherry | |
| J | [dʒ] | job, just | |
| H | [h] | house, he | |
| hour, honest | |||
| Q | [kw] | quiet, queen |
Vowel Combinations ( )
| oo | [ u ] | look, book, cook, good, foot |
| [ u: ] | pool, school, Zoo, too | |
| [ ɔ: ] | door, floor | |
| ee, ea | [ i: ] | see, tea, tree, read, please |
| [ e ] | bread, head, breakfast, healthy | |
| ay, ey, ai | [ ei ] | grey, play, say, they, paint |
| ou | [au] | loud, house, mouse |
| oi, oy | [ oi ] | toy, boy, oil, point |
Vowel and Consonant Combinations
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| ar | [ a: ] | car, far, party, jar, garden |
| or | [ ɔ: ] | for, horse, sport, short, forty |
| ur, ir, er | [ ə: ] | surf, hurt, girl, her, person, bird |
| ire, yre | [ aiə ] | tyre, admire, fire, hire, desire |
| are | [ εə ] | care, aware, hare, scare, share |
| ore | [ ɔ: ] | more, before, adore, store, explore |
| ight | [ ait ] | flight, right, night, tight |
| all | [ ɔ:l ] | ball, call, small, fall, tall |
| er, or | [ ə ] | doctor, speaker, writer, runner |
| ow | [ au ] | down, clown, brown, how, cow |
| [ ɔu ] | show, snow, flow, blow, row | |
| qu | [ kw ] | queen, quiet, quiz, quit, question |
Consonant Combinations ( )
| ck | [ k ] | black, stick, chicken, duck |
| ng | [ ŋ ] | sing, bring, ring, reading |
| sh | [ ∫ ] | she, shop, fish, wash, brush |
| ph | [ f ] | phone, photo, paragraph, physics |
| th | [ ð ] | this, that, the, there, then |
| [ θ ] | thank, thick, thin, think | |
| wh : | [ w ] | when, white, why, where |
| [ h ] | who, whose, whom, whole | |
| kn | [ n ] | know, knife, knock, knee, |
| wr | [ r ] | write, wrong, wrap |
| gh | [ f ] | enough, laugh, cough, tough |
| ch | [ t∫ ] | chess, cheese, cheap, child, chair |
| tch | [ t∫ ] | match, catch, kitchen, watch |
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Tongue Twisters (C)
Plural of Nouns
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| desk -deskslake -lakes +pen -pensface -faces |
| S |
| ES |
| -s, -ss, -sh, -ch, -x, -z, -o + bus-buses box -boxes brush -brushes potato -potatoes :piano -pianos photo -photos |
| -f, -fe f v + ES wife -wives leaf -leaves life -lives :roof - roofs |
| -y- +y+y + y i +ES day -daysbaby-babies boy -boyscity -cities |
| S |
| :man-menwoman - women child -childrenship - ship person -peoplemouse -mice foot - feet deer - deertooth - teethgoose - geese fish - fish |
Possessive Case of Nouns
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My mother 's bag -
( - ..)
Teachers ' books -
( - .)
Men 's cars -
( - , -s .)
* - , s : Tom and Tim s car .
