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)