Consonant and Consonant Cluster
清辅音 [f]、浊辅音[v] 和 辅音[h]
清辅音Voiceless Consonant [f]
Listen and practice:
Words单词：
1) fee [fi:] for [fɔ:] safe [seif] life [laif] fate [feit] fry [frai] free [fri:]
fame [feim] fake [feik] foot [fut] rough [rʌf] cough [kɔ:f] face [feis] chief [tʃi:f]
chef [ʃef] phrase [freis] phone [fəun]
2) ferry ['feri] photo ['fəutəu] fiber ['faibə] physical ['fizikəl]
February ['februəri] default [di'fɔ:lt] phonetics [fəu'netiks] funny ['fʌni]
painful ['peinful] muffler ['mʌflə] mouthful ['mauθ‚ful] failure ['feiljə]
phoenix ['fi;niks] Sphinx [sfiŋks] hemisphere ['hemisfiə]
Sentences句子：
1. Philip has to face his first failure of his fate.
2. The ferry is fifty five feet long.
3. A hemisphere is half phase of a whole globe.
4. The frost and ice failed to thaw in February.
5. I heard some cough and a few funny phrases over the phone.
6. Set the font function into default.
7. Physics and phonetics are tough to learn.
浊辅音Voiced Consonant [v]
Listen and practice:
Words单词：
1) live [liv] [laiv] vice [vais] void [vɔid] hive [haiv] vase [vɑ:s] [veis]
van [væn] verge [və:dʒ] vet [vet] vest [vest] vine [vain]
via [vi:ə] view [vju:] five [faiv] chive [tʃaiv] dive [daiv] give [giv]
Sentences句子：
1. I’ve traveled far and wide to visit a wise vet.
2. The villagers love the values of the five virtues.
3. It’s vital to voice the vowels right.
4. The van is a vehicle even bad drivers love to drive.
5. Chinese chive is a very good veggie that provides vitamins.
6. The child avoided the vase and survived another vital strike.
辅音Consonant [h]
Listen and practice:
Words单词：
1) he [hi:] hay [hei] hall [hɔ: l] half [hɑ:f] hot [hɔt] Bach [bɑ:h]
hate [heit] her [hə:] hale [heil] hell [hel] hit [hit] hut [hʌt]
hole [həul] hold [həuld] whole [həul]
2) hello ['heləu] [he'ləu] hero ['hiərəu] happen ['hæpən] prohibit [prə'hibit]
forehead ['fɔ:hed] ['fɔrid] hammer ['hæmə] hollow ['hɔləu] perhaps [pə 'hæps]
mishap ['mishæp] [mis'hæp] reheat ['ri:'hi:t] habit ['hæbit] habitat ['hæbitæt]
Abraham ['eibrəhæm] ['eibrəhəm] inhale [in'heil] hemisphere ['hemisfiə]
Sentences句子：
1. The hero’s hammer was reheated.
2. That hip-hop was a hit and became hot ever since.
3. Perhaps he has to handle what happened to him.
4. A hemisphere is half of a whole ball.
5. Hello, Mohammed, happy to hear you are out of the hell.
6. I heard some howls in the hollow hall way.
7. The hammer hit the hedgehog’s forehead and cut a hole.
[f] or [h]: 湖南 – 弗兰 / 航帆 – 防寒 / 南韩 – 篮凡 / 废话 – 黑花 / 飞黄 – 黑方
fate – hate / follow – hollow / fellow – hello / happen – fatten
Mixture of [f] [v] and [h]:
1. It’s not fair for Vivien to pull her sister’s hair.
2. Very well, my fair lady, the violin fits your voice.
3. A hammer hates its hole and even its very fat holder.
4. Don’t fight over the issue, just follow your fate.
5. Hello, honey! Where is the funny fellow?
Exercise III Tongue Twisters
1. 灰化肥会挥发。
2. 会话要废话，绘画要发挥。
3. 湖南防寒服，黑黄都防汗。
4. The hat hates hampers of Halloween.<br>
5. Friendly Frank flips fine flapjacks.<br>
6. He has had a haircut, hereby he looks handsome.
7. Hal bade Hans eat his own hot ham，so his own hot ham Hans ate.
8. Freshly-fried flying fish.
Freshly fried fresh flesh.
Commonly Used Expressions:
1. What the hell (are you talking about)?
2. Feel free to say anything.
3. Very well, everyone.
4. Fine, you are very welcome.
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