Some syllables have one or more consonants after the vowel.
VC – [i:t] – eat, VCC – [i:st] – east
Usually the number of syllables is the number of vowel sound in a word not letters.
Worked [wз:kt] 1 syllable
Different [‘difrǝnt] 2 syllables
Interesting [‘intrǝstiη] 3 syllables
Some consonant sounds can be also syllabic, e.g. sound [l]
able, bottle, syllable
How many syllables are there in these words? Use the CVC formula
High, rice, bought, key, day, through, laugh, two, youth, weigh, rhyme
Eyes, why, white, write, writing, glass, glasses, university, business, information
Read the tongue-twisters, count the number of syllables in each.
She sells sea shells on the shore.
Walter walked towards the waiter.
Betty bought a better bit of butter.
The fat cat sat on the vet’s wet hat.
Count
Which day of the week has three syllables?
How many syllables do the other days have?
Which numbers between 1 and 20 have three syllables?
Which letter of the alphabet has more than one syllable?
Which months have only one syllable?
Read this story and mark all the words that have two or three syllables
I remember (3) once on my first visit (2) to England ( ), soon after ( ) I started ( ) learning ( ) English ( ), my landlady ( ) went shopping ( ) and came back with a big bag full of things, but she forgot ( ) to buy some soup – she needed ( ) a tin of tomato( ) soup. So I said, ‘I’ll go to the shop and buy it for you( ),’ because ( ) I wanted ( ) to be helpful ( ) and it was a chance to practice ( ) my English ( ) a bit. So I went to the little ( ) shop round the corner ( ) and asked the shopkeeper ( ) for tomato ( ) soup. But he seemed surprised ( ), he didn’t ( ) understand ( ), and I repeated( ) again ( ) and again ‘soup, tomato soup, until ( ) he gave me some red soap, and I realized ( ) I’d confused ( ) ‘soup and soap’ and I was asking ( ) for tomato soap. I felt terrible ( ), I wanted to run ( ) out of the shop, but my landlady wanted her soup, so I said, ‘Thank you. And tomato soup, please’ – this time with the correct( ) pronunciation – and he gave me soup. I paid and went back to the house and said to the landlady, pronouncing( ) very( ) carefully( ), ‘Here’s your soup, and I bought you this soap as a present,’ and she said, ‘Ooh ( ), thank you very much, that’s very nice ( ) of you!’
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