seven steps to superb sounds.md

Seven Steps to Superb Sounds

Step 1: Learning alphabet

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.

① A a

② E e

③ I i

④ O o

⑤ U u

⑦ W w

⑧ Y y

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Step 2: CVC words with one vowel

bat	cat	hat	sad	mad
jet	bed	vet	net	wet
sit	big	pit	wig	lip
not	mop	hop	dot	god
cup	must	under	nut	bus

句子练习：

1. Disease: ill, pill, bill and sometimes will.
2. Can you can a can as a canner can can a can?
3. A big black bug bit a big black bear and made the big black bear bleed blood.
4. The black lad was very sad because his dad had died in a bad accident in a factory.
5. She sells seashells by the seashore. The shells she sells are surely seashells. So if she sells shells on the seashore, I’m sure she sells seashore shells.

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Step 3: CVCV words with two vowels

_a_e	male	bake	wake	date
_e_e	these	Pete	meme	eve
_i_e	bike	hike	bite	like
_o_e	note	bone	rose	nose
_u_e	cube	tube	mute	cute

句子练习：

1. Lonely lowland llamas are ladylike.

2. A pleasant place to place a plaice is a place where a plaice is pleased to be placed.

3. Luke’s duck likes lakes. Luke Luck licks lakes. Luke’s duck licks lakes. Duck takes licks in lakes Luke Luck likes. Luke Luck takes licks in lakes duck likes.

4. As he gobbled the cakes on his plate, the greedy ape said as he ate, the greener green grapes are, the keener keen apes are to gobble green grape cakes, they’re great!

5. I bought a bit of baking powder and baked a batch of biscuits. I brought a big basket of biscuits back to the bakery and baked a basket of big biscuits. Then I took the big basket of biscuits and the basket of big biscuits and mixed the big biscuits with the basket of biscuits that was next to the big basket and put a bunch of biscuits from the basket into a biscuit mixer and brought the basket of biscuits and the box of mixed biscuits and the biscuit mixer to the bakery and opened a tin of sardines.

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Step 4: Words with double/triple consonant blends

bl	blocks	blood	blanket
cl	cloud	clock	climb
gl	globe	glove	glue
fl	flag	flower	flute
pl	plug	play	plate
sl	sleep	sled	slide
br	break	bread	brown
cr	crazy	crab	crayon
gr	grass	grapes	grain
fr	France	friend	fridge
pr	press	pray	proud
tr	truck	tree	trumpet
dr	dress	drum	dragon
sc	screen	scope	scene
sk	skill	skin	skip
sm	smell	smoke	smile
sn	snail	snow	snake
sp	spider	spring	spoon
st	stop	stone	fast
sw	sweet	sweat	swell
scr	scream	screen	scroll
spr	spite	spirit	sprite
str	strip	stripe	strap

句子练习：

1. Clowns grow glowing crowns.
2. A bloke’s bike back brake block broke.
3. Fresh fried fish. Fish fresh fried. Fried fish fresh. Fish fried fresh.
4. Swan swam over the sea. Swim, swan, swim! Swan swam back again. Well swum, swan!
5. A fly and flea flew into a flue, said the fly to the flea ‘what shall we do?’ ‘let us fly’ said the flea. Said the fly ‘shall we flee’ .So they flew through a flaw in the flue.

Step 5: Consonant Diagraph

ch	chip	cheap	rich	reach	chill
sh	ship	sheep	mushroom	fisher	shrimp
th	this	these	nothing	thrive	moth
wh	when	where	what	why	who
wr	wrap	write	wrong	wrath	wry
kn	know	knife	knot	knock	knuckle
mb	climb	comb	womb	dumb	thumb
ph	photo	phone	elephant	physical	typhon
tch	catch	fetch	match	watch	scratch
ng	sing	song	wing	sting	king
qu	question	query	quote	quick	request

1. Quick kiss. Quicker kiss. Quickest kiss.
2. A cheap sheep is cheaper than a cheap ship.
3. I can think of six thin things and of six thick things too.
4. When you write copy you have the right to copyright the copy you write.
5. Whether the weather is cold, whether the weather is hot, we’ll weather the weather, whatever the weather, whether we like it or not.

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Step 6: Diphthongs/Diagraph

au	haul	auction	slaughter	autumn	auto
ai	nail	rain	snail	train	grain
ei	receive	leister	seize	height	eight
ea	read	tea	meat	sea	pea
ee	bee	beet	tree	feet	green
eo	leo	leopard	theory	people	jeopardize
eu	euro	feudal	neutral	eulogy	eugenic
ie	pie	tie	lie	die	fie
oe	toe	hoe	oboe	woe	aloe
oa	coat	goat	boat	soap	foam
ou	mouse	house	loud	count	mouth
oi	soil	coil	oil	boil	coin
oo	goose	food	cool	tool	loop
ui	fruit	juice	suit	bruise	cruise
ue	tissue	avenue	statue	barbecue	cue
oy	toy	soy	boy	coy	joy
ay	day	pray	play	spray	hay
ey	abbey	monkey	donkey	money	honey
aw	claw	saw	haw	straw	law
ow	cow	how	now	owl	down

句子练习：

1. Silly sheep weep and sleep.
2. The bleak breeze blights the bright blue blossom.
3. Lesser leather never weathered wetter weather better.
4. There are two minutes difference from four to two to two to two, from two to two to two, too.
5. Through three cheese trees three free fleas flew. While these fleas flew, freezy breeze blew. Freezy breeze made these three trees freeze. Freezy trees made these trees’ cheese freeze. That’s what made these three free fleas sneeze.

Step 7: R-controlled vowels

ar	starve	star	tar	art	arm
or	fork	torch	orchard	port	pork
ir	girl	shirt	birthday	first	third
er	letter	latter	litter	mutter	toddler
ur	murmur	surfer	turkey	church	purse

1. The worse for the rider, the better for the bider.
2. Peter poked a poker at the piper, so the piper poked pepper at Peter.
3. Terry Teeter, a teeter-totter teacher, taught her daughter Tara to teeter-totter, but Tara Teeter didn’t teeter-totter as Terry Teeter taught her to.
4. If one doctor doctors another doctor does the doctor who doctors the doctor doctor the doctor the way the doctor he is doctoring doctors? Or does the doctor doctor the way the doctor who doctors doctors?
5. Betty Botter bought some butter but she said the butter's bitter. If I put it in my batter it will make my batter bitter. So, she bought some better butter, better than the bitter butter and she put it in her batter and her batter was not bitter. So 'twas good that Betty Botter bought some better butter.