Tag: bed

Speech Sounds

A. Speak the following words aloud and notice the difference. Notice the a, e, i, o and u sounds. These are the vowel sounds of English.

  1. eat    beat
  2. it       bit
  3. bed   beg
  4. bad   bag
  5. car    far
  6. ox     box
  7. short   fought
  8. put     sugar
  9. boot   shoe
  10. up      cup
  11. learn   girl
  12. about   tailor
  13. play pain   day race
  14. ice   rice   buy high
  15. oil   boy toy coin
  16. out   cow shout   house
  17. boat over   no go
  18. ear fear   near   real
  19. poor sure
  20. air care

B. Now read the following words aloud. Focus on the underlined sound of each word. These are the consonant sounds of English.

  1. pin
  2. bin
  3. tin
  4. din
  5. kin
  6. gun
  7. chin
  8. gin
  9. mine
  10. nine
  11. sing
  12. fine
  13. vine
  14. thin
  15. they
  16. sign
  17. zinc
  18. shine
  19. treasure
  20. hat
  21. light
  22. right
  23. yak
  24. wet

Prepositions

  • Read the following sentences:

Joy keeps his room very neat and clean. His clothes are in the cupboard. His books are on the shelf. There is a small table near his bed. His bag is on the table. His toys are under the bed.

In these sentences, the words in, on, near, under show the relation of one thing to another. Such words are called Prepositions.

 

  • Let us look at some more sentences:
  1. The book is on the table.
  2. The book is under the table.
  3. The book is near the table.
  4. The book is in the table.
  5. The book is above the table.
  6. The book is below the table.
  7. The book is beside the table.
  8. The book is behind the table.

 

Each of the above sentences has a word (in italics) that shows the relation between the book and the table. All these words are Prepositions.

A Preposition is a word which is used before a noun or a pronoun to show its relation with another noun or pronoun.

  • Some common Prepositions:

In, on, under, near, behind, over, into, in front of, between, above, below, for, since, beside, with, from, after, before, up, down, of, by, at etc.