3. Why is important to know how
sounds are articulated?
Understanding the process
and anatomy of speech can
assist teachers in teaching ELL
learners.
4. Sounds can be voiced or voiceless.
Voiced sounds require vibration
of the muscles in the larynx that
form the vocal bands.
The space between these bands is
called the “glottis.”
5. Speech results from a complex
interaction between several systems in
the body.
The brain, the sense of hearing, the
lungs, larynx, vocal tract, and tongue
all work together to produce the
sounds of the English language.
11. Bilabial Labiodent Dental Alveolar Palato- Palatal Velar Glottal
al alveolar
Plosive
Affricate
Fricative
Nasal
Lateral
Approxim
ant
12. 1. Approximant and palato- alveolar sound, the tongue is
held behind the alveolar ridge (not touching). Voiced
2. A palatal approximant sound. The tongue is in the
position of a close front vowel (similar to /I/). The soft
palate is raised and the sound glides quickly to the
following vowel /ə/. Voiced
3. A lateral sound, a partial closure is made by the blade of
the tongue against the alveolar ridge. Air is able to flow
around the sides of the tongue. Voiced
13. 4. A plosive bilabial sound, total closure is made using both
lips. The soft palate is raised and is unvoiced.
5. Plosive velar sound, closure is made by the back of the
tongue against the soft palate, it’s unvoiced.
6. Affricate palato alveolar sound. The tongue tip, blade
and rims close against the alveolar ridge and side teeth.
The front of the tongue is raised and when the air is
released there is audible friction, it’s voiced
7. Fricative glottal sound. Air passes from the lungs
through the open glottis, causing audible friction,
unvoiced
14. The English Consonants
Sound Word Sound Word Sound Word
p pet b bet m met
t ten d den n no
k cat g get ŋ sing
f for v very l late
s sorry z zoo r roll
θ thigh ð that j yes
ʃ shoe ʒ rouge w wit
ʧ chirp ʤ judge h he
21. Peter Piper picked a peck
of pickled peppers.
A peck of pickled peppers
Peter Piper picked.
If Peter Piper picked a peck
of pickled peppers,
Where is the peck of pickled peppers
Peter Piper picked?
22. A pickled pepper picked a peck
Of Peter Pipers.
A peck of Peter Pipers
A pickled pepper picked.
If a pickled pepper picked a peck of
Peter Pipers,
Where is the peck of Peter Pipers
A pickled pepper picked?
23.
24.
25.
26. SHE SELLS SEA SHELLS ON THE
SEA SHORE , BUT THE SEA
SHELLS THAT SHE SELLS, ON
THE SEA SHORE ARE NOT THE
REAL ONES
27. If you understand, say
"understand" . If you don't
understand, say "don't
understand". But if you
understand and say "don't
understand". How do I understand
that you understand? Understand!
28. I wish to wish the wish you
wish to wish, but if you wish
the wish the witch wishes, I
won't wish the wish you wish
to wish.
29. A sailor went to sea to see,
what he could see. And all he
could see was sea, sea, sea.
30. If two witches were
watching two watches, which
witch would watch which
watch?
31. I thought a thought. But the
thought I thought wasn't the
thought I thought I thought. If the
thought I thought I thought had
been the thought I thought, I
wouldn't have thought so much.
32. Once a fellow met a fellow
In a field of beans. Said a
fellow to a fellow, "If a fellow
asks a fellow, Can a fellow
tell a fellow What a fellow
means?"
33. We surely shall see the sun shine shortly.
Whether the weather be fine, Or whether the
weather be not, Whether the weather be cold Or
whether the weather be hot, We'll weather the
weather Whatever the weather, Whether we like
it or not. Watch? Whether the weather is hot.
Whether the weather is cold. Whether the
weather is either or not. It is whether we like it or
not.
34. A flea and a fly in a flue Said
the fly "Oh what should we do"
Said the flea" Let us fly Said the
fly"Let us flee" So they flew
through a flaw in the flue
35. If you tell Tom to tell a
tongue-twister his tongue
will be twisted as tongue-
twister twists tongues.
