Consonants and their sounds
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 441.
English Consonant Sounds
A consonant letter usually represents one consonant sound. Some consonants, for example, c, g, s, can represent 2 different consonant sounds.
(Одна согласная буква обычно передает один согласный звук. Некоторые согласные, например, c, g, s, могут передавать два разных согласных звука.)
| Consonants | Sounds | Examples |
| b | [b] | baby, best, bite, about, buy, bring, blind, absent, number, robber |
| c | [s] [k] | center, cellar, cigarette, cinema, cycle, agency, notice; cake, come, cucumber, clean, cry, scream, panic |
| d | [d] | day, dear, die, door, duty, lady, ride, hidden, admire, kind, ended |
| f | [f] | fast, female, five, forest, fund, fry, flight, often, deaf, cuff |
| g | [g] [j] | game, get, ago, begin, gust, great, global, dog, giggle, egg; general, manage, agent, suggest, giant, gin, Egypt, energy |
| h | [h] [-] | hair, help, history, home, hotel, hunt, behind, inherit; hour, honor, honest, heir, vehicle, Sarah |
| j | [j] | jam, Jane, jet, jelly, Jim, jingle, joke, John, June, just |
| k | [k] | Kate, kind, kill, kilogram, sky, blanket, break, take, look |
| l | [l] | late, lesson, live, alone, close, slim, please, file, all, old, table, nicely |
| m | [m] | make, men, mind, mother, must, my, name, form, summer |
| n | [n] | napkin, never, night, no, nuclear, funny, student, kindness |
| p | [p] | paper, person, pick, pour, public, repair, apple, keep, crisp |
| q (qu) | [kw] [k] | quality, question, quite, quote, equal, require; unique, technique, antique, grotesque |
| r | [r] | rain, red, rise, brief, grow, scratch, truck, arrive, return, more, hurry |
| s | [s] [z] | send, simple, song, system, street, kiss, lost, release; cause, present, reason, advise, always, is, realism |
| t | [t] | task, tell, time, tone, tune, attentive, student, hotel, boat, rest |
| v | [v] | vast, vein, vivid, voice, even, review, invest, give, move, active |
| w | [w] | wall, way, west, wind, word, would, swear, swim, twenty, twice, twist |
| x | [ks] [gz] [z] | exercise, exchange, expect, ex-wife, axis, fix, relax; exam, exact, executive, exert, exist, exit, exult; Xenon, Xerox, xenophobia, xylophone |
| z | [z] [ts] | zero, zoo, horizon, puzzle, organize, quiz, jazz, crazy; pizza, mezzo, Mozart, Nazi, waltz |
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