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Ship Or Sheep - Unit 27: k (key)

Exercise - 3a (Dialogue)

First practise the target sound /k/ in words from the dialogue, plus some others. Read the words aloud or visit the website to practise. /k/ is LOUD before a vowel. Kate cup sky school course coffee cuckoo Karen OK American excuse me /k/ is also quite LOUD before ‘I‘ and ‘r‘. cream cry crowd Christmas across class clean clear Climb include /k/ is often quiet at the end of a word. look walk ask quick black book work milk Mrs Clark plastic electric What happens when the next word begins with a vowel? Do the two words join together? Is the /k/ louder or quieter?
look ask book	look_up ask_anybody book_out		walk work Mrs Clark	walk_along work_out Is Mrs Clark_in?
Notice what happens when a quiet /k/ at the end of a word is followed by a louder lk/ at the beginning of the next word. Make the two sounds different. There can be a slight pause between the two sounds.
black electric like speak	black cup electric clock like cooking speak clearly		quick plastic book walk	quick question plastic container book case walk quickly
/k/ is quieter before most consonants (except ‘l’ and ’r’). Choose the correct heading from this box for each list of consonant clusters (1—5) below.
/kt/ /kl/ /kw/ /kr/ /ks/
1 _________	2 _________	3 _________	4 _________	5 _________
next exciting expensive excuse me forks	picked walked worked asked electric	quiet Kwok question quality quite	clock class clever quickly chocolate	cricket cream scream microwave incredible
In which two lists 1—5 does /k/ sound louder? Practise saying the clusters. Look at the words in the box below and decide whether the target sound is loud (L) or quiet (Q). EXAMPLE like (Q) coffee (L)
milk () fork () coffee ()	cuckoo( / ) make () plastic ()	like () American() course ()	next () carved () cream ()	Kate() call()
Check your answers in the key before doing the next exercise.

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