CONSONANT SOUNDS /Ð/ AND /θ/

ENGLISH LANGUAGE S.S.S.1 FIRST TERM

THEME: SPEECH

WEEK TWO

CONSONANT SOUNDS /Ð/ AND /θ/

PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE

Students should be able to;

  1. Identify the given Consonant sounds
  2. Make examples from them

CONTENT

The English digraph represents two different phonemes in English: the voiceless dental fricative /θ/ as in "thin" and the voiced dental fricative /ð/ as in "this."

The voiced /ð/ sound tends to occur in function words (minor grammatical words like articles, determiners, and such, so a spelling in such words is most often /ð/. This includes some words that are not used in modern English (marked with asterisks below).

the this, that, these, those, they, then, there, therefore, thereupon, though, although, then, hither*, thither*, whither*, thee*, thy*, thou*, thyself*

/θ/ is an unvoiced consonant;.... View More

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