1. Sounds of English
Semester I
Lesson 8

2. HOMEWORK week 7 5. REVISE & REFLECT Roach Chapter 5 & 6
Dispensa Discovery Activities p33 & p34
Dispensa Sounds & Spelling p46 & 47 4.
Watch the videos on the fricatives
5. REVISE & REFLECT

3. The International Phonetic Alphabet can be helpful for studying a language, especially languages that use letters that are silent or have multiple pronunciations, such as English. Languages like Arabic and Spanish are consistent in their spelling and pronunciation – each letter represents a single sound which rarely varies.

4. The International Phonetic Alphabet can be
helpful for studying a language,
especially languages that use letters that are
silent or have multiple pronunciations, such as
English.
Languages like Arabic and Spanish are
consistent in their spelling and pronunciation –
each letter represents a single sound which
rarely varies. English is different.

6. The Runner

7. Transcribe

9. Transcribe

11. Group 3
Fricatives

13. Group 3
Fricatives
Unvoiced
Glottal
NEVER IN
FINAL
POSITION

16. DICTATION!

17. feared
jive
bother
cooked
flown
guarded
pushed
verse
fourth
Asia

19. Group 4
Nasals

20. Bilabial
Velar
Alveolar

21. NEVER IN INITIAL POSITION
Velar
NEVER IN
INITIAL
POSITION

24. INITIAL
MEDIAL
FINAL
Voiced
Alveolar
Lateral
Dark ‘L’
/ Ị /

25. Allophones
An allophone is a phonetic variant of a phoneme in a particular language.
Compare the clear /l/ and dark /l/ in
these pairs of words:
late – tale let – tell lip – pill
lay – ale light – tile law – wall
lied – dial

26. ▌

27. DICTATION!

28. lazy
nun /none
beehive
able
breath
breathe
washing
uncle
rouge
anger

29. HOMEWORK

30. HOMEWORK week 8 5. STUDY!!!!!! (only 1 lesson left)
Roach Chapter 7 (last chapter for semester 1)
Dispensa Discovery Activities p35 - p37 (you have now finished this section)
Dispensa Sounds & Spelling p47 & p48
Watch the BBC pronunciation videos on
the nasals
/h/
/l/
5. STUDY!!!!!! (only 1 lesson left)