4 Tables - mono-diph-triph

keen; keel; keep key/quay calf; calm; car cart; cast/caste

cool; coop

coot; coup

cause; core corn; course kerb/ curb; curl curse; curt; curve /g/ geek; geese garden; garment guard goo; goose ghoul gall gore; gorge gauze girl; girth /f/ feast; fee; feel feat/feet father/farther farm; fast food; fool for/fore/four fork; fault fir/fur; firm; first /v/ V; veal; venal Venus vase; vast voodoo vortex; vault vaunt verb; verge; verse Virgil; virgin /θ/ Thebes, theme thesis, thief - thuja thaw/Thor; thorn;thought thermal; third thirty, thirst /ð/ thee - - - - /s/ C/sea/see; seat cease; seize sarcasm; sardine sergeant soon; soup; Sue Susan; suit

saw/soar/sore

sort/sought

certain; sir; surge surf /ʃ/

she; sheep

sheet;sheen

shard; shaft

shark

shoo/ shoe shoot/chute shore; shorn short shirk; shirt /ʧ/

cheap/cheep

cheek; cheese

chance; char charm; chart chew; choose chalk; chore chortle chirp; church churl; churn /ʤ/

G; jeans/genes

jeep

jar Jew; June; juice jaw; jaundice

germ; Germany

jerk; journey

/j/ ye; yeast; yield yard; yarn use; ewe/you youth; yew

your/yaw/yore

yawn; York

yearn /m/ meat/meet/mete meal; mean

Ma; margin; mark

marvel; mast

mood; moon moose; moot mall/maul more/moor merge; mirth murder /n/

knee;knead/need

neat; niece

gnarled; Narnia nasty noon; noose naught/nought nor; north nerd; nurse nurture /w/ weak/week; weep wheel/weal - woo; womb war/wore; walk ward; wharf

word; work

worm; worse

/r/

reach;read/reed

reap; reek; reel

Ra; Raj raft; rasp rather room; rude root/route; ruse

roar; wrought

raucous

- /l/ leak/leek; leaf leap; leave lard; large; lark last; laugh loom; loop loose; lose Lord/laud; law lawn learn; lurk /h/ heal/heel;heap heat; heed hark; hard;harm harsh;heart who; whose hoop; hoot

hoar/whore

horde/hoard

heard; hearse hurl; hurt

* The phoneme /ʒ/ and /ŋ/ never occur in initial position, so these have been excluded.

TABLE OF CONSONANT SOUNDS*

FOLLOWED BY DIPHTHONGS

Students need practice to achieve the balance between the first and second elements as well as create the glide from one to the other. The eight diphthong sounds can be practised using the table below. The columns show all eight as they occur in English words which begin with each of the consonant phonemes. The words are read across the rows and down the columns. The consonant + the diphthong alone is marked bold

e.g. /p/+/eɪ/=pay; /p/+/ aɪ /=pie; /p/+/Əʊ/=Poe; /p/+/ɪƏ/=peer/pier

/eɪ/ /aɪ/ /ɔɪ/ /aʊ/ /Əʊ/ /ɪƏ/ /eƏ/ /ʊƏ/ /p/ pay, pale, pain, paste pie, pile, pine point, poise

pound,

powder

(E.A). Poe poke, pope post

peer/

pier

pierce

pear/pair, parent pour /b/ bay, babe, bake, base

buy/by/buy

bike, bite

boy,

boil

bow/bough

bound

bow, boat bone

beer/

bier

bear/bare boor /t/

tail/tale

tame, taste

tie/Thai

tight, tile

toy,

toil

town, tout tow/toe toad, toast tear/tier tear/tare tour /d/ day, dame, Dane, daze die/dye doiley Dow,down doubt doe/dough don’t, dose

dear/

deer

dare dour /k/

K, cake

cane, case

kind, kite

coy,

coil

cow, count

co.

code,coke