UNSTRESSED VOWEL SOUND

ENGLISH LANGUAGE S.S.S2 FIRST TERM

WEEK FOUR

THEME: SPEECH WORK

UNSTRESSED VOWEL SOUND

PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE

Students should be able to;

1. Identify the unstressed vowel sounds
2. Pronounce them and use them appropriately

CONTENT

Unstressed vowels are letters that are not easy to hear in a word. Polysyllabic words - that is, words with more than one syllable - can be tricky to spell in English. This is because English words are pronounced with more stress on some syllables than others.

E.g. “marmalade” has three a’s and only the first and the last are stressed:

The unstressed vowel is the little “uh” sound we say in “weak” syllables, like the “er” in “water”, the “ar” in “liar”, the “or” in “tractor” or…