Vowels and Consonants is full of useful, everyday examples, communicative games and activities, drawings and photographs, tips to help you with the correspondence between sound and spelling, and cool tricks to help you master tricky sounds.
TROUBLESOME SOUNDS
Step-by-step instructions for tricky sounds: r, l, th, zh, ng, etc.
THE AMERICAN T
Take the mystery out of “wader” (water), and “twenny” (twenty).
Find out what happens to “Right!”, and “mountain”.
INTONATION
Use melody to help you pronounce words properly: “price” or “prize”?
CONTRAST PRACTICE
[b] or [v]? [l] or [r]? [ae] or [a]? [i] or [I]?
ENGLISH GRAMMAR AND PRONUNCIATION
Past Simple Endings: [t], [d], [Id]
Present Simple and Possessive Endings: [s], [z], [Iz]
