Reading of combinations of vowels with consonants.

Letter combination sound Examples
O + ld I+ld I+nd Igh A+consonants A+ll Al+k W+a [əu] [ai] [ai] [ai] [a:] [o:] [o:] [o] Cold, gold Wild, child Kind, find High, night Class, past, plant All, ball, wall Talk, walk, chalk Want, was

Ex.1 Read the following words containing combination of vowels and consonants:

[əυ] cold, fold, hold, bold, gold, told, sold;

[aı] wild, mild, child,;

[aı] kind, mind, find, bind, blind, rind.

[a:] class, fast, ask, plant, bath, pass, past, task, grant, path, glass, cast, bask, can’t, [a:] father, grass, vast, basket, shan’t, brass, mask, branch.

[ɔ:] all, small, ball, fall, call, stall, tall, wall.

[o] was, wash, what, want, watch, quality;

[ɔ:] war, warn, warm, quarter, warship, quart;[ʌ], [υ] won, wolf, wonder, woman;

[ç:] work, word, world, worm.

[aυ] now, how, cow, down, town, clown, brown, crowd, crown, flower, power, tower;

[əυ] row, own, slow, grow, snow, glow, show, throw, know

 

Ex. 2(from Test your pronunciation Unit 2, disc)