Pronunciation Practice Exercises For Final S' [PDF]

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Pronunciation Practice Exercises for final‘s’ Voiceless sounds take /s/ Imagine the sound a snake  might make ...ssssssssss These sounds are voiceless: /f/ /h/ /k/ /p/ /t/

EXAMPLES: laughs /laefs/ talks /toks/

Voiced sounds take /z/ Imagine the sound a bee  might make...zzzzzzzz These sounds are voiced: /b/ /d/ /g/ /j/ /l/ /m//n/ /ng/ /r/ /v/ /w/ + all vowel sounds EXAMPLES: rubs / rubz/ sings /singz/

These sounds take /iz/ Similar to the word 'is'

/s/ /ks/ /z/ /dg/

EXAMPLES: kisses /kisiz/ boxes /boksiz/

  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 sandwiches closes faces hours loves phrases things cooks girls james’s messages places wants  

/s/

/z/

/iz/

                 

                 

                 

Pronunciation Practice Exercises for final ‘s’ Voiceless sounds take /s/ Imagine the sound a snake  might make ...ssssssssss These sounds are voiceless: /f/ /h/ /k/ /p/ /t/

EXAMPLES: laughs /laefs/ talks /toks/

Voiced sounds take /z/ Imagine the sound a bee  might make...zzzzzzzz

These sounds take /iz/

These sounds are voiced: /b/ /d/ /g/ /j/ /l/ /m//n/ /ng/ /r/ /v/ /w/ + all vowel sounds EXAMPLES: rubs / rubz/ sings /singz/

/s/ /ks/ /z/ /dg/

Similar to the word 'is'

EXAMPLES: kisses /kisiz/ boxes /boksiz/

  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 sandwiches closes faces hours loves phrases things cooks girls james’s messages places wants  

/s/

/z/

/iz/

cheques  cooks  graduates hates minutes paints products wants

boys earns girls hours lessons  lives loves  things

closes damages faces James’s messages phrases  places 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/

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

damages

earns

faces

girls

graduates

hates

hours

james’s

lessons

lives

loves

messages

minutes

paints

phrases

places

products sandwiches things

wants