Consonants in English

1. Warm-up

Pre-teach activity:

• Write down the consonants in Spanish
• Now do the same with the consonants in Galician language
• In these two languages, do the consonants represent the same sounds?
• And what about English? How many consonants are there? Do they represent the same sound?

Work in pairs and complete the chart.

2. Consonant chart

Here you can see the consonant chart.

As you can see there are 24 consonants ( /w/ and /j/ can also be considered semi consonants or semi vowels)

Now you can listen to them.    

3. Consonants p/b/t/d

Vowel	Usual spelling
	p: pig, pear pp: apple, happy
	b: bed, boy bb: rubber
	t: time, tea tt: letter, bottle
	d: do, day dd: address, middle

4. Consonants tʃ/dʒ/k/g

Vowel	Usual spelling
	ch: church,children tch: watch, match t +ure: picture, adventure
	j: judge, January dge: judge, fridge
	c: colour, car k: kilo, like ck: black, pick
	g: go, green gg: egg

5. Consonats f/v/θ/ð

Vowel	Usual spelling
	f: five, Friday ph: photo, elephant ff: coffee
	v: very, eleven
	th: think, thumb
	th: the, this, that

6. Consonants s/z/ʃ/ʒ

Vowel	Usual spelling
	s: six, sister ss: actress
	z: zoo, zero s: music, please
	sh: short, shoe ti: station, information
	s: casual, television (Also garage)

7. Consonants m/n/ŋ/h

Vowel	Usual spelling
	m: milk, Monday mm: summer
	n: no, nine nn: dinner
	ng: sing, long (Also think, bank)
	h: hello, happy (Also who, whose)

8. Consonants l/r/w/j

Vowel	Usual spelling
	l: live, like ll: small
	r: read, red rr: sorry
	w: window, witch wh: why, when
	y: yes, yellow before u: use