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JSS2 ENGLISH STUDIES THIRD TERM WEEK NINE
CONTENT
- Speech Work: Consonant Sounds /p/ and /b/
- Structure: Antonyms
- Literature: Poetry – The Language of Poetry
ASPECT: Speech Work
TOPIC: Consonant Sounds /p/ and /b/
Description of the Consonant Sound /p/
This is a voiceless bilabial plosive sound. It can be realized at the initial, medial and the final positions.
Examples:
pen, peg, paid, peg, keeper, happy, lip, cheap, ship, etc.
Note that /p/ is silent when it precedes ‘s’, ‘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 though both combined in the word.
Description of the Consonant Sound /b/
This consonant sound is a voiced bilabial plosive. It can occur at the initial, medial, and final positions.
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