281 Go to /ɛ/ Worksheet Go to /eɪ/ Worksheet DRESS /ԑ/ “get” vs FACE /eɪ/ “gate” Watch Video Lesson
- When practising sounds: - FEEL (what can you feel your muscles doing?) - HEAR (listen to the audio tracks and use the hand-phone to listen to yourself)
You may come up with different ideas to the ones in the boxes. That’s fine! DRESS /ɛ/
FACE /eɪ/
Spelling Patterns
FEEL
“e” set “ea” head
tongue forwards and down tongue does not move
HEAR short vowel, no movement
“a” able “a” + consonant + “e” gave
tongue starts in a similar position to DRESS and then moves upwards
longer vowel with movement
Comparisons
The highlighted words are all minimal pairs. These are words that sound the same apart from one sound. The only difference between edge /ԑʤ/ and age /eɪʤ/ is the vowel sound.
Words (minimal pairs in the order /ԑ/ - /eɪ/) 1 edge - age 6 pen - pain 2 X1 – aches 3 bet - bait 7 red - raid 11/ԑks - eɪks/ 4 chess - chase 5 8 beckon - bacon 9 gel – jail2 get - gate 10 fell – fail2 2 because of the /l/ the vowel may sound like /eɪəl/
