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Consonant Practice

word pairs

listening exercise

tongue twister

Try to say the words in each word pair.

Pay attention to the consonant difference in each word pair.

* Please click on the to listen to the following word pairs and repeat after me.

1.	2.	3.
pat bat pig big peach beach rope robe crip crib	time dime train drain tuck duck root rude slight slide	could good class glass crab grab back bag Rick rig

4.	5.	6.
few view fan van rifle rival leaf leave proof prove	van ban very berry verse burse vote boat Viking biking	sink think sank thank sought thought sum thumb sinner thinner

7.	8.	9.
tense tenth mass math face faith use youth burse birth	ship chip shop chop sheet cheat cash catch wash watch	see she seat sheet same shame sock shock sour shower

10.	11.	12.
moon noon mine nine smack snack sum sun bam ban	lice rice light right climb crime file fire bowl bore	wary vary west vest wine vine worse verse awoke evoke

Listening Exercises

Please go to the self-test page - Listening Exercise: Consonants

Tongue Twister Practice

Try to have a mouth workout. It's fun!

Tomorrow is the third Thursday of this month.

Red lorry, yellow lorry, red lorry, yellow lorry.

I slit the sheet, the sheet I slit, and on the slitted sheet I sit.

Lesser leather never weathered wetter weather better.

Which witch wished which wicked wish?

While we were walking, we were watching window washers
wash Washington's windows with warm washing water.

            I thought a thought.
            But the thought I thought wasn't the thought
            I thought I thought.

            She sells sea shells by the sea shore.
            The shells she sells are surely seashells.
            So if she sells shells on the seashore,
            I'm sure she sells seashore shells.

            How much wood would a woodchuck chuck
            if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
            He would chuck, he would, as much as he could,
            and chuck as much wood as a woodchuck would
            if a woodchuck could chuck wood.

            Silly Sally swiftly shooed seven silly sheep.
            The seven silly sheep Silly Sally shooed
            shilly-shallied south.
            These sheep shouldn't sleep in a shack;
            sheep should sleep in a shed.