ENGLISH LANGUAGE S.S.S2 FIRST TERM

WEEK SIX

SPEECH WORK

CONSONANTS - THREE POSITIONED

PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE

Students should be able to;

1. Pronounce correctly the three consonants at initial positions
2. Use them in sentences

CONTENT

Consonant Clusters

A consonant cluster is a group or sequence of consonants that appear together in a syllable without a vowel between them. In English consonants are found to be clustered in word-initial, medial and word-final positions. The consonant clusters/ sequence belonging to a single syllable are known as intra syllabic clusters whereas the consonant clusters belonging to two different syllables in a single word are known as inter-syllabic clusters. Thus, in linguistics, a consonant cluster also known as consonant blend is a group of consonants which have no intervening vowels in between them. The maximum possibility of consonant cluster is three consonants in the.... View More