Ey Short E Sound

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English Pronunciation, Lesson 07

The short e sound (IPA symbol:

Words using the long e spelling pattern (ee) and (-e). Skill: long (e) spelling patterns (e e) and (-e)Long vowel rule: When two vowels go walking the first one does the talking, (it says its name) the second vowel does the walking, (it is silent). Young learners practice reading and writing words that make the long e sound in this lesson plan I See Long E! Designed with first graders in mind, this lesson teaches children to recognize the various letter combinations that lend themselves to the long e sound: -ee, -ea, and -y.

e) can be found in English words such as:

Use this worksheet for a fun way to help your children practise their recognition of the ey sound containing real and nonsense words.To complete this activity, children have to fill in the key with a different colour for real and nonsense words. Then, ask them to spot the real and nonsense words on the sheet and colour in the correct boxes. Children won't even feel like they're learning with.

• Other words that have a long A sound are spelled with EY, including obey, prey, and grey. Also words from French that end in E, EE, or ET have a long A sound, such as cafe, soiree, gourmet, buffet.
• Y as a long I: The letter y makes the long sound of i when it comes at the end of a short word that has no other vowel. Examples: cry, try, my, fly, by, hi. Y as a long E: When y or ey ends a word in an unaccented syllable, the y has the long sound of e. Examples: money, honey, many, key, funny.

pen, bed, dead, said, spend, best, rest, again, ready.

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Watch the following video to learn how to pronounce this sound correctly:
(Note that in the video the term 'soft palate' will be mentioned.
Soft palate means 'the soft part at the back of the top of the mouth'.)
Have you watched it? Good! Let's practice...
Say these words out loud (short E sound is bold):

Ea Short E Sound Words

1) bet
2) rest
3) bed
4) pen
5) said
6) spend
7) get
8) check
9) let
10) sweat
11) wet
12) yet
13) ten
14) again
15) ready
16) neck
17) head
18) when

Now say these sentences out loud (short E sound is bold):
1) I bet you haven't slept yet.
2) Get some rest.

Ea Short E Sound Worksheets

3) When will you be ready?
4) He spends ten dollars a day.
5) My head is on my neck.
7) The floor is wet again.
8) He said: 'Could you check if you have a pen?'
9) Can you help? Sure, no sweat (=no problem)!
10) Let's pet the cat.

Have you finished them all? Cool!

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Well done! You have completed the short E sound lesson.
Let's move on...
Your next lesson: Lesson 08, the Schwa Sound (the, about)

List of Lessons

Ea Short E Sound

Lesson 01: International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)
Lesson 02: Word Stress and Syllables
Lesson 03: Long E sound (meet, see)
Lesson 04: Short I Sound (sit, hit)
Lesson 05: UH Sound (put, foot)
Lesson 06: OO Sound (moon, blue)
Lesson 07: Short E sound (pen, bed)
Lesson 08: Schwa Sound (the, about)
Lesson 09: UR Sound (turn, learn)
Lesson 10: OH Sound (four, store)
Lesson 11: Short A Sound (cat, fat)
Lesson 12: UH Sound (but, luck)
Lesson 13: Soft A Sound (arm, father)
Lesson 14: Long O Sound (boat, know)
Lesson 15: Long A Sound (say, pain, make)
Lesson 16: Short O Sound (not, off, socks)
Lesson 17: Diphthong (a combination of two vowel sounds)
Lesson 18: P Sound (cup, punch, pull) and B sound (cub, bunch, bull)
Lesson 19: The Nasal Sounds (M, N, NG)
Lesson 20: F Sound (four, lift, graph, tough) and V Sound (love, knives, grave, vine)
Lesson 21: W Sound (wow, quit, where)
Lesson 22: R Sound (red, sorry, write)
Lesson 23: H Sound (he, behind, who)
Lesson 24: T Sound (top, it, later) and D Sound (do, had, made)
Lesson 25: S Sound (sit, box, cats) and Z Sound (zip, buzz, boys)
Lesson 26: K Sound (kid, talk, black) and G Sound (go, big, dog)
Lesson 27: L Sound: Light L & Dark L (tall, like, English)
Lesson 28: Y Consonant Sound (yes, you, beyond)
Lesson 29: CH Sound (China, century, watch) and J Sound (Germany, educate , judge)
Lesson 30: TH Consonant Sounds – voiced TH sound (the, father, them) and voiceless (unvoiced) TH sound (think, birthday, south)
Lesson 31: SH (shop, chef, special) and ZH (usual, massage, Asia)