Pronunciation Practice Exercises for finals

These sounds take

Voiceless sounds take Voiced sounds take
/iz/
/s/ /z/
Imagine the sound a Imagine the sound a
snake might make bee
.sssssss might make...zzzzzzzz

These sounds are These sounds are voiced: /s/ /ks/ /z/ /dg/
voiceless: /b/ /d/ /g/ /j/ /l/ /m//n/
/f/ /h/ /k/ /p/ /t/ /ng/ /r/ /v/ /w/ + all vowel
sounds
EXAMPLES:
EXAMPLES: EXAMPLES: kisses /kisiz/
laughs /laefs/ rubs / rubz/ boxes /boksiz/
talks /toks/ sings /singz/

Say the following words out loud and then put them in the correct columns according to the
sound of the plural or third person 's':

boys damages graduates lessons minutes products

cheques earns hates lives paints sandwiche
closes faces hours loves phrases s
cooks girls jamess messages places things
wants

/s/ /z/ /iz/

Pronunciation Practice Exercises for final s

These sounds
Voiceless sounds Voiced sounds take /z/ take /iz/

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 take /s/ Imagine the sound a Similar to the word
Imagine the sound a bee 'is'
snake might make might make...zzzzzzzz
...ssssssssss
/s/ /ks/ /z/ /dg/
These sounds are These sounds are voiced:
voiceless: /b/ /d/ /g/ /j/ /l/ /m//n/ /ng/
/f/ /h/ /k/ /p/ /t/ /r/ /v/ /w/ + all vowel
sounds
EXAMPLES:
EXAMPLES: EXAMPLES: kisses /kisiz/
laughs /laefs/ rubs / rubz/ boxes /boksiz/
talks /toks/ sings /singz/

Put the following words in the correct columns according to the sound of the plural or third
person 's':

boys damages graduates lessons minutes products

cheques earns hates lives paints sandwiche
closes faces hours loves phrases s
cooks girls jamess messages places things
wants

/s/ /z/ /iz/

cheques boys closes
cooks earns damages
graduates girls faces
hates hours Jamess
minutes lessons messages
paints lives phrases
products loves places
wants things sandwiches

Game/Flash Cards
The words below can be cut out and put on cards or folded and used for a game.

1. Divide students into teams.

2. Put the following on the board:

/s/ /z/ /iz/

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 3. Have a student from each team choose a card and read it out loud.
4. Then have the student write the word on the board in the appropriate column.

boys cheques closes cooks

damage earns faces girls

s

graduat hates hours jamess

es

lessons lives loves messag

es
minutes paints phras places
es

product sandwich things wants

s es

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