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Activity 2. Practice Saying the English Vowel

Vowel is a sound in spoken language. Or a speech sound made by the vocal folds
(commonly called vocal cords). It is also a type of letter in the alphabet. Vowel is

created by the relatively free passage of breath.

This speech sound made with open mouth and the tongue positioned inside or in the

middle of the mouth, not touching the lips, or teeth.
Letter of vowel are : A, I, U ,E, O and sometimes Y. the letter Y can be vowel in the

words such as ‘cry’, ‘sky’, ‘fly’, or ‘why’ or it can be consonants in the words of ‘

‘yellow’, ‘yacht’, ‘yam’, or ‘yesterday’

Table 3.3. English Vowels

Task I :

Place the following words in the correct column according to the
Highlighted vowel sound (Practice saying these):

sick throat cough touch sorry worry give hurt

feel think most sore cold brother so ill fever fun

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