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JSS1 ENGLISH STUDIES FIRST TERM WEEK SIX
CONTENT
- Speech Work: Consonants /p/ and /b/
- Structure: Prepositions
- Composition: Letter Writing (Guided Writing: Informal Letters)
- Comprehension: Market
- Literature: Folktales – Features/Themes of Folktales (NOSEC pages 34-35)
ASPECT: Speech Work
TOPIC: Consonants /p/ and /b/
Description of the Consonant /p/
This is a voiceless bilabial plosive sound. It can be realized at the initial, medial and the final positions of words.
Examples: pen, peg, paid, leg, keeper, happy, lip, cheap, ship, etc.
Note that /p/ is silent when it comes before ‘n’ and some other words like: corps, receipt, psalm, psychiatry, pneumatic, pneumonia etc.
Also, ‘ph’ is pronounced as /f/ and /v/ in certain words such as physics, phobia, phase, Stephen, nephew. Yet, only /p/ is pronounced in ‘shepherd’ while ‘h’ is silent is though both combined in the word.
Description of the Consonant /b/
This consonant, a voiced bilabial plosive, can occur at the initial, medial, and final positions.
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