JSS2 ENGLISH STUDIES THIRD TERM WEEK NINE

CONTENT

1. Speech Work: Consonant Sounds /p/ and  /b/
2. Structure: Antonyms
3. 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.