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#1. True or false: the voiced consonant sound g ends a syllable more often than its unvoiced partner k.
k ends a syllable more often than its voiced partner g.
#2. k appears at the end of many common ________, such as: work, talk, ask, and look.
#3. k creates CV connections in many common ________, e.g., ‘make up’, ‘take out’, and ‘think over’.
#4. Which word ends with the voiced consonant sound g?
#5. In which sound connections does the voiced consonant sound g move forward as g? (Choose two.)
Select all that apply:
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Discussion
- Have you ever associated g and k together in English? If not, why not? Can you accept them as being two versions of the same sound?
- How do you feel about letters that change their sounds, i.e., they are not pronounced as they look and you have to remember to say them differently – e.g., ‘g’ becomes ‘k’ in a CC connection. Does your L1 have this feature?
Practice
- Read the words ending in g on slide 6 out loud. Make up new CC phrases with these words followed by words beginning with a consonant sound, e.g. ‘fog was’. Say them out loud and practice moving forward the g and changing it to a light k.
- Make up phrases with the function and content words on slide 7 that end in k – both CV and CC – and practice them out loud. Pay particular attention to when the k moves forward to meet another consonant sound, e.g. ‘work with’. Make the k light – almost non-existent.
- Read the phrasal verbs on slide 7 out loud. Focus on making the CV and CC connections as unobtrusive as possible.
- Practice the phrases on slide 8. Differentiate between CV connections – g remains – and CC connections – g changes to k.
- Practice reading the phrasal verbs on slide 9 out loud. Differentiate between CV connections – g remains – and CC connections – g changes to k. Notice that in CV connections we can make up ‘nonsense’ phrases when we use connected speech, e.g., ‘make up’ = MAY CUP, and ‘think up’ = THING CUP. But that is how we speak!