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consonants

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the correct description of /w/?

a)

voiced, labio-dental approximant

b)

voiced weak labio-dental approximant

c)

voiced bilabial approximant

d)

voiced weak bilabial approximant

2.

What is the correct description of /ʃ/?

a)

voiceless strong alveolar affricate

b)

voiceless strong palato-alveolar affricate

c)

voiceless strong alveolar fricative

d)

voiceless strong palato-alveolar fricative

3.

Which is the correct description of /ʔ/?

a)

voiceless glottal plosive

b)

voiceless glottal fricative

c)

strong glottal plosive

d)

strong glottal fricative

4.

Which is the correct description of /r/?

a)

voiced weak alveolar approximant

b)

voiced alveolar approximant

c)

voiced weak post-alveolar approximant

d)

voiced post-alveolar approximant

5.

Which is the correct description of /h/?

a)

voiced glottal fricative

b)

voiceless glottal fricative

c)

voiced velar fricative

d)

voiceless velar fricative

6.

What is true about /θ/? More answers possible.

a)

It's strong.

b)

It's an obstruent.

c)

It's a fricative

d)

It's voiced

e)

It's dental

7.

What is true about /dʒ/? More answers possible

a)

It's a fricative

b)

It's weak

c)

It's post-alveolar

d)

It's a sonorant

e)

It's voiced

8.

What is true about /l/? More answers possible

a)

It's an approximant

b)

It's a lateral

c)

It is voiceless in the word clear

d)

It is dark in the word hello

e)

It is alveolar in the word play

9.

What is true about /w,b,m/? More answers possible.

a)

They are all sonorants

b)

They are all weak

c)

They are all bilabial

d)

They are all voiced

10.

What is true about /ʒ,s,h,v,tʃ/? More answers possible.

a)

They are all fricatives.

b)

They are all voiceless.

c)

They all have friction.

d)

They are all obstruents

11.

What is true about /g,b,v,dʒ/? More answers possible.

a)

They are all weak

b)

They are all plosives

c)

They are all voiced

d)

They are all obstruents

e)

None of them have friction

12.

What is true about /l,s,n,d/

a)

They are all voiced

b)

They are all alveolar

c)

They are all sonorants

d)

The tongue is involved in all of them.

13.

What is true about sonorants? More answers possible

a)

Air escapes freely

b)

They are neither weak nor strong

c)

They are neither voiced nor voiceless

d)

The soft palate is down.

e)

There is no obstructon of the air stream

14.

What is true about affricates? More answers possible.

a)

They are obstruents

b)

There is friction

c)

They are neither weak nor strong

d)

They are voiced

e)

The air stream is temporarily blocked

15.

What is true about palato-alveolar sounds? More answers possible.

a)

They are fricatives

b)

They are affricates

c)

They are voiced

d)

They are strong

e)

There is friction

16.

What is true about the soft palate?

a)

It lowers to open the nasal cavity

b)

Its other name is the glottis

c)

Only voiced sounds are made there

d)

It is immediately behind the hard palate