EDU410 Handouts Set 3

Topic no 109

Triphthongs

What Is a Triphthong?

A vowel sound in which the tongue changes position to produce the sound of three vowels one after another.

It means : There are three vowel sounds. There is a different beginning and different end. The position of tongue changes because it glides from one position to different positions.

Sometimes, triphthong is defined as a diphthong + ə.

Examples

Lower /ləʊə/

Fire /faɪə/

Player /pleɪə/

Loyal /lɔɪəl/

Tower /taʊə/ Step-3 CVCV words with two vowels.

Topic no 115

Step-4 words with double/triple consonant blends.

Consonant blends (also called consonant clusters) are groups of two or three consonants in words that makes a distinct consonant sound, such as "bl" or "spl." A single distinct meaningful element of speech or writing, used with others (or sometimes alone) to form a sentence and typically shown with a space on either side when written or printed.

Two dimensions:

1.Content words. In language, content words are words such as nouns, most verbs, adjectives, and adverbs that refer to some object, action, or characteristic.

2. Function words which function primarily to express the grammatical relationships between other words in a sentence.

Function words include determiners (for example, the, that), conjunctions (and, but), prepositions (in, of), pronouns (she, they), auxiliary verbs (be, have), modals (may, could), and quantifers (some, both).

Topic no 118

To Know a Word

Knowing a word means:

· Having the ability to recognise it in its spoken and written forms.

· Knowing its different meanings.

· Knowing its part of speech [eg. a noun, a verb]

· Being able to pronounce it properly· Being able to use it correctly within a sentence in an appropriate grammatical form

· For technical words, recognizing it in