Consonant clusters in IELTS Listening gapfill answers
A LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS
Initial and final consonant clusters that IELTS candidates might have problems understanding and spelling review, starting with a fun quick reactions game.
Lesson Plan Content:
Consonant clusters in IELTS Listening gapfill answers
Without looking below, listen to your teacher say an answer from a Listening gapfill task and race to hold up the right card depending on how many syllables you think they said.
In groups of three or four, take turns testing each other in the same way, with only the person reading out the words allowed to look at the list below at that time.
When your teacher stops the game, look at the full list below and ask about any words you don’t understand, think could also be a different number of syllables, etc.
Consonant clusters classification
Without any help, mark each word on the following page with its syllables. Your teacher will tell you if you should also mark the most strongly stressed syllable with a larger mark.
Check as a class or with the first worksheet.
Consonant clusters error correction task
Without any help, rewrite any lines on the following page that are not spelt the right way (for example because the candidate has misheard the consonant cluster).
Check as a class, with the first worksheet, or with the suggested answers.
Change groups. Test each other on the same or other similar words you know by:
- playing the same holding up cards game
- saying a word and seeing if your partner can write it down and/ or spell it
- showing your partner a word to see if they can say it with the right number of syllables
- saying a word and seeing if your partner can put it into a suitable example sentence
- saying a word with too many syllables and seeing if your partner can repeat it back with the correct number of syllables
- saying a consonant cluster (e.g. “Cl” or “C, L”) and seeing how many words your partner can think of and pronounce correctly with those sounds together in them
Cards to hold up
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backed blind boxed brakes cliffs climbs clips closed clothes clouds clubs curved discs drinks dusts flags gloves groups growth guessed hands lamps missed months nests roads roots seeds shops sides slides socks soft sounds stamps stones suits tasks taxed thinks three wings wives worst |
blackened branches breathing bridges brother clapping classes cleaner climate clothing complex concerts contacts dampened demand discount effects flooring fridges friendship glasses global grammar granted graphics insects intact islands laptops nearest oceans patients planted plated pregnant profits programmes reserves respects screening themselves thousands trusted unlocked visions |
Consonant clusters classification
Mark each word below with its syllables.
backed blackened
blind boxed
brakes branches
breathing bridges
brother clapping
classes cleaner
cliffs climate
climbs clips
closed clothes
clothing clouds
clubs complex
concerts contacts
curved dampened
demand discount
discs drinks
dusts effects
flags flooring
fridges friendship
glasses global
gloves grammar
granted graphics
groups growth
guessed hands
insects intact
islands lamps
laptops missed
months nearest
nests oceans
patients planted
plated pregnant
profits programmes
reserves respects
roads roots
screening seeds
shops sides
slides socks
soft sounds
stamps stones
suits tasks
taxed themselves
thinks thousands
three trusted
unlocked visions
wings wives
worst
Consonant clusters error correction task
Without looking above, rewrite any lines below that are not spelt the right way.
fully backt blackened tooths
brind soccer box tup
han brakes turee branches
heavy boreathing iron blidges
half brother loud claping
English clarsses dry kleaner
white culiffs colimate change
climes up video culips
half crossed spare cloths
dry clothin rain crouds
seven of culubs complecks maths
flee concerts business contacks
carved line dampend cloth
consumer demander dis-count shop
compack discs soff drinks
grey dusut special effecs
raise frags wooden fulooring
fridgey freezer frendship bracelet
sungrasses glowbal issue
leather gluves grammer book
grahnted relief guraphics chip
rock grups boost gorowth
instantly guest full hans
deadly insecks intac tantique
desert ilands desku lamps
Windows laptopus mist target
six month neares store
bird nestes seven oceanz
outpatience houseplanst
gold-platid pregnan cow
net prophets official purogrammes
oil reservs in some respecks
country Rhodes tree routes
security scleening dry seads
local shopsu both size
presentation slaides winter sox
software souns like
foreign sutamps rolling stownes
swimsuits herd tasks
highly taxt four themselves
think sup thousand sof
sree men torusted source
unlockt door realistic bisions
feathered winges ex-waives
wors time
Suggested corrections
Other changes are possible, so please check if you made different changes.
fully backed blackened teeth
blind soccer boxed up
hand brakes tree branches
heavy breathing iron bridges
half brother loud clapping
English classes dry cleaner
white cliffs climate change
climbs up video clips
half closed spare clothes
dry clothing rain clouds
seven of clubs complex maths
free concerts business contacts
curved line dampened cloth
consumer demand discount shop
compact discs soft drinks
grey dust special effects
raise flags wooden flooring
fridge freezer friendship bracelet
sunglasses global issue
leather gloves grammar book
granted relief graphics chip
rock groups boost growth
instantly guessed full hands
deadly insects intact antique
desert islands desk lamps
Windows laptops missed target
six months nearest store
bird nests seven oceans
outpatients houseplants
gold-plated pregnant cow
net profits official programmes
oil reserves in some respects
country roads tree roots
security screening dry seeds
local shops both sides
presentation slides winter socks
software sounds like
foreign stamps rolling stones
swimsuits hard tasks
highly taxed for themselves
thinks up thousands of
three men trusted source
unlocked door realistic visions
feathered wings ex-wives
worst time
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