El "I" usado como consonante

The “I” as a Consonant           (La letra “I” usado como consonante)

In some words, when the “i” comes before a vowel in the same syllable,  the “I” has the sound of the consonant “y” as in YES and YOYO.       (En algunos palabras, cuando el “I” viene antes de un vocal en la misma silaba, el “I” tiene el sonido de la consonante “y” como en las palabras “yes” y “yoyo”.

Listen for and mark the consonant “I” sound as “y” in the following words:  then use them in the sentences below:     

(Escucha y subraya el I que suena como y en las palabras siguientes: después úsalos en las oraciones.)

                                                                               

Valiant	peculiar	million	criminal
million	reunion	familiar	Stallion
suicide	brilliant	curiosity	pliers
onion	senior	Italian	multiply
William	convenient	opinion	companion

1.       The _________ live in a country shaped like a boot.

2.       We sang the old ______ carols for our Christmas program.

3.       A good _____ makes a hike more enjoyable.

4.       The stars are ______ on a clear winter’s night.

5.       In your ______ , which team will win? 

6.       We heard a ______ noise which we could not identify. 

7.       All my relatives were at our family _________ .

8.       Do you think that you will ever earn a ________ dollars?

9.       It is ________ to live near the school.

10.   Why do you weep when pealing an ________ ?

11.   How many years before you will be a _________ in high school?

12.   The cowboys tried for a long time to capture the wild _________ .   

TH pronunciacion

"TH" PRONUNCIATION

Hay dos manera de pronunciar el “TH”:  sin la voz (e) como en “thin”, y con la voz (Ò) como en “this”:

1) Practica con el sonido: e como en thin:

Para producir esta sonido, aguanta la punta de tu lengua suavemente entre los dientes y deja tu respiración sin voz fluir continuamente y suavemente entre la superficie de tu lengua y tus dientes.

Practica con las palabras siguientes:

Thin, thought, thick, thumb, think, thorn, author, nothing, mouth, forth, anything, both, bath, path, breath, thank, throat, everything, teeth, math

Practica estas oraciones:

My teeth are in my mouth.

Thank you for everything.

Throw the things back and forth.

2) Practicar con el sonido: Ó como en “this”

Para producir este sonido, aguanta la punta de la lengua entre los dientes y haz un sonido continuo. No soplas aire.

Practica con las siguientes palabras:

This, the, other, that, then, these, them, those, theirs, further, rather, bathe, smooth, breathe

without*, with*

Practica estas oraciones:

I'd rather go without them.

There are other ways to bathe.

Breathe deeply and smoothly.

“With”  y “without” pueden ser pronunciados con o sin voz . 

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There are two ways to pronounce 'th': voiceless (e) as in thin, and voiced (Ò) as in this

1) Sound practice: e as in thin:

To produce this sound, hold the tip of your tongue loosely between the front teeth and let your voiceless breath flow out continuously and smoothly between the top of your tongue and your upper teeth.

Listen and repeat the following words:

Thin, thought, thick, thumb, think, thorn, author, nothing, mouth, forth, anything, both, bath, path, breath, thank, throat, everything, teeth, math

Practice saying these sentences:

My teeth are in my mouth.

Thank you for everything.

Throw the things back and forth.

2) Sound practice: Ó as in this

To produce this sound, hold the tip of your tongue between the teeth and make a continuous voiced sound. Do not blow out air.

Listen and repeat the following words:

This, the, other, that, then, these, them, those, theirs, further, rather, bathe, smooth, breathe

without*, with*

Practice saying these sentences:

I'd rather go without them.

There are other ways to bathe.

Breathe deeply and smoothly.

·         With and without can be pronounced either e or o

Pronunciation Tips

Phonics:   Vowel pronunciation:   Usually, when there are two vowels within a word or syllable, the first one is long (the sound of the name of the letter); and the second one is silent. They form a team. The most common combinations are:

AI= say “a” like in = wait, tail,

AY= say “a” like in = say, tray

EA=say “e” like in = team, leap

EE=say “e” like in = bee, see

IE= say “i” like in = tie, pie            

OA=say “o” like in = boat, goat

               

Fonética: Pronunciación de los vocales: Por normal, cuando hay dos vocales juntos en una palabra o silaba, la primera tiene el sonido “largo” (el sonido del nombre de la letra en Ingles); y el segundo es silencioso.  Ellos forman un equipo.  Las combinaciones más comunes son:          

AI= dicen “a” como en   = wait, tail  

Etc.  

Homonyms

Here are more common Homonyms which are important to know to increase your understanding and ability to communicate clearly:

Aquí  hay otros HOMONYMS que son importantes conocer para aumentar tu comprensión y habilidad de comunicar claramente:

Cell/ sell	mail/ male	stationary/ stationery
Cent/ scent/ sent	meat/ meet	steal/ steel
Cereal/ serial	medal/ meddle	tail/ tale
Chord/ cord	miner/ minor	their/ there/ they’re
Coarse/ course	morning/ mourning	threw/ through
Dear/ deer	none/ nun	to/ too/ two
Dew/ do/ due	one/ won	toe/ tow
Die/ dye	pain/ pane	vain/ vein
Eye/ I	pair/ pare/ pear	waist/ waste
Fair/ fare	passed/ past	wait/ weight
Fir/fur	peace/ piece	war/ wore
Flew/ flu/ flue	plain/ plane	wares/ wears
Flour/ flower	pole/ poll	warn/ worn
Foul/fowl	principal/ principle	way/ weigh
Guessed/ guest	rain/ reign/ rein	weak/ week

Words- homonyms

WORDS THAT SOUND ALIKE                 “Homonyms” 

There are a number of words in English that are pronounced the same as another Word but have a different spelling and meaning. For example, son and sun are both pronounced the same. Usually the meaning of words like this is clear from the sentences they are in.      My son is a doctor. / The sun is really hot today.

Here are some common words that most American and Canadian speakers pronounce alike:

Air/ heir                                           heal/ heel                                          rap/ wrap

Aisle/ I’ll/isle                                    hear/ here                                         read(past)/ red

Allowed/aloud                                 heard/ herd                                       right/ rite/ write

Ascent/ assent                                 hi/ high                                              road/ rode

Bare /bear                                       higher/ hire                                        role/ roll

Base/ bass                                       hole/ whole                                       sail/ sale

Be /bee                                            knew/ new                                        scene/ seen

Been/ bin                                          knight/ night                                      sea/ see

Berry/ bury                                       knot/ not                                           seam/ seen

Berth/ birth                                       know/ no                                          sew/ so / sow

Blew/ blue                                        lead( metal)/ led                                sole/ soul

Board/ bored                                    leased/ least                                     some/ sum

Brake/ break                                     lessen/ lesson                                   son/ sun

Bread/ bred                                       loan/ lone                                         stair/ stare

Buy/ by/ bye                                      made/ maid                                       stake/ steak

Pronunciaciones de la C y G

Pronunciaciónes Fuertes y suaves:

 Los consonantes g  y c  tienen pronunciación suave y fuerte. Normalmente son suaves cuando continuados por una e,i, o y, y tienen el sonido fuerte cuando otras letras les siguen. Hay excepciones pero esta regla es muy útil. Una de las excepciones más comunes es girl… que suena fuerte aun si le sigue la i.

Fuerte: c          /k/        como en … cake, cookie, coat, cube, clock, picnic, rescue

            G         /g/        como en … goat, garden, game, degree, engage, gurgle

Suave:  c          /s/         como en … city, cycle, cent, spice, rice,

            G         /j/         como en … gem, cage, gym, gin, page, energy, engage

Hard and Soft Sounds:

            The consonants “g” and “c” can have either a hard or soft sound.  They are usually soft when they are followed by the “e”, “i” or “y”, and  have the hard sound when followed by other letters.  There are exceptions; however this rule is very useful.   One common exception is “girl”… it sounds hard even though its followed by an “i”.

Hard:   c          /k/        as in cake, cookie, coat, cube, clock, picnic, rescue

            G         /g/        as in goat, garden, game, degree, engage, gurgle

Soft:     c          /s/         as in city, cycle, cent, spice, rice,

            G         /j/         as in gem, cage, gym, gin, page, energy, engage