Listen Up! Advanced - Session 7

Listen Up! Advanced

Session 7

Letters and sounds

In writing, words are made of letters. In speech, words are made of sounds. Letters are not always the same as sounds.

For example the words key and car begin with the same sound, but the letters are different.

We can see this clearly if we read the two words in phonemic symbols: /kiː/ , /kɑːr/ .

In the examples below, word pairs have the same pronunciation but different spelling:

buy - bye

weak - week

too - two

sun - son

weigh - way

write - right

There are two kinds of sounds: consonant sounds and vowel sounds. For example in the word duck, there are three sunds, consonant - vowel - consonant.

The number of sounds in a word is not usually the same number of letters. We can see this if we write the phonemic symbols for duck: /dʌk/

How many sounds are there in each word?

Choose the correct answer.

Multiple Choice

Choose the order of consonant sounds (C) and vowel sounds (V)

DOG

• C V C

• C C

• V C

Multiple Choice

Choose the order of consonant sounds (C) and vowel sounds (V)

RABBIT

• C V C V

• C V C V C

• C V C

Multiple Choice

Choose the order of consonant sounds (C) and vowel sounds (V)

FROG

• C C V C C

• C V C

• C C V C

Multiple Choice

Choose the order of consonant sounds (C) and vowel sounds (V)

GORILLA

• C V C V C V

• C V C V

• C V C C V

Multiple Choice

Choose the order of consonant sounds (C) and vowel sounds (V)

SNAKE

• C V C V

• C C V C V

• C C V C

Multiple Choice

Choose the order of consonant sounds (C) and vowel sounds (V)

BEE

• C V

• C V V

• C V C

VOWEL SOUNDS

CONSONANT SOUNDS

Look and choose the correct word.

Multiple Choice

/ ' kæt /

• cat

• cut

• cot

Multiple Choice

/ ' ʃɪp /

• cheap

• ship

• sheep

Multiple Choice

/ ' hæt /

• hut

• hat

• hot

Multiple Choice

/ ' li:v /

• live

• life

• leave

Multiple Choice

/ ' θɪn /

• think

• thing

• thin

Look at the options. Three of the four words includes the given phoneme - which word is different from the others?

Multiple Choice

• church

• Chester

• such

• ridge

Multiple Choice

• German

• justice

• chicken

• postage

Multiple Choice

• ow!

• house

• show

• town

Multiple Choice

• gate

• pig

• germs

• great

Multiple Choice

• think

• mother

• mammoth

• thanks

Multiple Choice

• mother

• up

• took

• bus

Multiple Choice

• vision

• buzz

• zip

• lazy

Listen Up! Advanced

The end of session 7