Activities

I. Speak on the following:

· active organs of speech;

· passive organs of speech;

· the characteristics of vowels;

· the characteristics of consonants;

· the classification of vowels;

· the classification of consonants.

II. Fill in the ‘vowel’ chart:

	front	front-retracted	mixed	back-advanced	back
open
mid-open
close

III. Fill in the ‘consonant’ chart:

Type and manner Organ and place	Occlusive	Constrictive	Affricates
Plosive	Sonorant	Fricative
Sonorous Nasal	Medial	Lateral	Unicentral	Bicentral
La bial	Bilabial

Labial-dental

Lin gual	Fore lingual	Apical	Dental

Alveolar

Palato- alveolar

Cacuminal	Post-alveolar
Medio-lingual
Back-lingual

Pharyngeal

IV. Classify the words according to the vowels they have:

boat, air, there, now, wait, bright, door, love, sudden, post, shout, doubt, word, gate, height, pour, son, blood, although, bare, further, plough, weight, daughter, wear, drown, great, sight, eye, lay, hurt, toe, bough, dough, though, stare, low, trouble, rubbish, brother.

V. Find a word from the list which rhymes with each word given. One word in the list is the odd one out:

Tough though lurch bough route numb palm talk complete

search ________

toe ________

boot ________

stuff ________

dumb ________

receipt ________

row ________

calm ________

VI. Say the tongue twisters three times as quickly as possible. Learn three of them by heart.

[s] [S]

She sells sea shells on the seashore.

Sister Suzie sits and sews sailors’ shirts.

Six sick slick slim sycamore saplings.

I slit the sheet, the sheet I slit, and on the sleeted sheet I sit.

[T], [D]

Is this your sister’s sixth zither, sir?

Three free throws.

Tim, the thin twin tinsmith.

The Leith police dismisseth us.

[r]

Robert Rowly rolled a round roll round.

A runner runs around a round rubber and rubs away his running rubbers.

Freshly fried fresh flesh.

Brisk brave brigadiers brandishes broad bright blades.

[w]

Swan swam over the sea.

Swim, swan, swim;

Swan swam back again.

Well swam, swan.

Why will we walk along the wild wood?

Who wakes my wife?

Whines and whimpers all the time

While I’m away?

Which wristwatches are Swiss wristwatches?

Which witch wished which wicked wish?

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