CONSONANT SOUNDS FOLLOWED BY K + W

ENGLISH LANGUAGE S.S.S1 FIRST TERM

WEEK TEN

THEME: SPEECH

CONSONANT SOUNDS FOLLOWED BY K + W

PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE

Students should be able to;

1. Identify sounds followed by k and w
2. Pronounce words correctly
3. Use them in contextual sentences

CONTENT

Introduction to the Consonant Sounds Followed by /KW/

Although now written with a consonant and a vowel as qu-, the /kw/ sound is made up of two consonants. As a result, it falls under the consonant cluster category. The letter q is used the most rarely of all English letters with the exception of z. In the Old English period, it was very rarely seen, as even the sound /kw/ was usually represented by the letters cw- as in cwen “queen”.…