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There are twenty questions and the pass mark is 85%, so you need 17 correct answers to pass.
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#1. Consonant sounds are less important than __________ to speakers of English.
#2. There are 25 consonant sounds in English – 15 __________ and 10 __________.
#3. Consonant sounds are made when air leaves the body while being __________.
#4. True or false? Consonant digraphs only appear at the beginning and end of words.
They can also appear in the middle of words, e.g. ‘sh’ in ‘washable’.
#5. The letter 'r' in 'work' is __________.
#6. A consonant digraph comprises two consonant letters that represent __________.
#7. 'ch', 'sh', 'th', and 'wh' are the most common __________ in the English language.
#8. The second 'e' in 'vegetable' __________ when we say this word.
#9. These words all famously have silent letters:
#10. In consonant blends - like ‘bl’ in ‘blue’ or ‘lm’ in ‘film’ - both sounds are __________.
#11. This word contains both a vowel digraph and a consonant digraph:
#12. Consonant blends usually appear at the start (‘bright’) or __________ of a word.
#13. The letter ‘c’ can be pronounced as s in 'ambulance' (soft 'c') or k in __________ (‘hard c’).
#14. The letter ‘s’ can be pronounced as s (in ‘guest’) or z (in ‘clothes’) or zz (in 'usually'). It is also z at the end of plural words and __________.
#15. Consonant digraphs are usually two consonant letters, but sometimes a consonant and vowel are used, e.g. __________ in ‘guess’, __________ in ‘nature’, and __________ in 'official'.
#16. The word 'foreign' is stressed on the __________ syllable.
#17. The consonant sound y is an example of a __________ in words like 'menu', 'ambulance', and 'European'.
#18. Consonant pairs can also be a problem, with learners mixing up sounds like b and p, or g and __________.
#19. A notable consonant blend is ‘qu’, which represents the sounds __________ in, for example, ‘quick’ and ‘quite’.
#20. We could argue that consonant digraphs with double letters have one silent letter, e.g. one ‘b’ in ‘hobby’ is silent, but the double consonants can help us with finding the stressed vowel sound because __________.
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