NB in the process of implementing WTT, students will hear and be exposed to the spoken version of the whole range of English
sounds, as is required for learners of an additional language. The chart presented here is one version of a scope and sequence for
the explicit teaching of
listening
to spoken English and
pronouncing spoken English.
This is best done through activities that use these sounds in natural speech. Rhymes, chants and songs are excellent catalysts
for having children listen to sounds and reproduce them in non-threatening ways.
Games are also contexts for focussing on sounds in ways that children can engage in meaningful yet fun ways. These can be
planned for the Listening and pronunciation exercises in both the Column planner and the Petal Planner.
Good resources for teaching listening, pronunciation, rhyme, rhythm and stress are:
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Transition
Consonant sounds
Phonemes
Beginning sounds followed by a vowel.
/n/
nut
nit
not
Vowel Sounds that
also exist in Tiwi words in
Tiwi
/ʊ/
cook
book
could
put
/ɪ/
pit
/ɔ/
lock
lot
lump
sp
Spelling: r
Spelling: k,c
/j/
yum
yippee
/t/
tap
top
tip
took
/a/
cup
putt
rut
sp
Spelling w, wh
sp
want
water
what
wind
sp
/ɹ/
rut
rip
Pronunciation:
Spelling: m, mm,
/m/
mud
min
p
pat
pet
All vowels in Tiwi come after a consonant as do
these English vowel sounds
/w/
Spelling p, pp
cut
com
e
king
kick
/p/
sp
/k/
Pronunciation: Stop.
Spelling: k,c
Sounds that also exist in Tiwi
words in Tiwi
These sounds also exist at the beginning
of Tiwi words, but not always
accompanied by the same vowel sounds
as English uses.
Vowel Sounds
Phonemes
/dʒ/
jug
jig
Year One
Consonant sounds
Phonemes
Sounds that also exist in Tiwi
words
While the individual sounds exist in
Tiwi, these sound combinations do not
exist at the beginning of Tiwi words
Beginning consonant and consonant clusters
/l/
lolly
long
Vowel Sounds
Phonemes
Revisit
revisit
/p/,/ɹ/
then
teach
/k/, /l/
then
teach
/pɹ/
pray
/kl/
clean
Vowel Sounds that
also exist in Tiwi words
All vowels in Tiwi come after a consonant unlike
these English vowels which occur at the beginning
of words
/a/
up
under
/ə/
a boy
about
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/ɪ/
in
it
pride
Revisit
/t/, /ɹ/
then
teach
/tɹ/
track
trip
Revisit/
p/,/l/
then
teach
/pl/
play
please
clear
climb
Revisit
/k/, /ɹ/
then
teach
/ɔ/
on
All Tiwi words end in a vowel
sound like these English words
/ə/ Under
i scarey
/kɹ/
cry
cream
creep
Year Two
Consonant sounds
Phonemes
Sounds that also exist in Tiwi
words, but not in the same
position within words (beginning,
middle, end)
Revisit
revisit
revisit
/ɹ/
then
teach
medial
/p/
then
teach
medial
/t/
then
teach
medial
/ɹ/
/p/
flipper
apple
/t/
spatter
cattle
revisit /l/
berry
Revisit
/k/
then
teach
final
consonant
/k/
creek
kick
deck
lock
back
revisit /t/
then
teach
final
consonant
/t/
bit
mat
cat
bait
quiet
caught
fought
whistle
Vowel Sounds
Phonemes
Consonants and consonant cluster located in
the middle and ends of English words
Vowel Sounds that
also exist in Tiwi words, but
not in the same position within
words (beginning, middle, end
Tiwi words are multi syllabic, unlike these English
words which end with a vowel and are one
syllable
/i/
Ski
be
me
key
see
then teach
final
consonant
/l/
wall
ball
doll
call
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revisit
/m/
then
teach
final
/w/
then
teach
medial
/ŋ/
Teach
medial
and
final
consonant
consona
/w/
quack
quick
aqua
nt /ŋ/
consonant
/m/
mum
plum
come
lamb
Spelling:m, mm, mb
revisit
sing
banged
wing
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Year Three
Consonant sounds
Phonemes
Consonants that do not exist in
Tiwi words
Beginning sounds that are not in Tiwi
/f/
fat
father
/z/
zip
Vowel Sounds
Phonemes
/θ/
thin
thick
thong
thunder
Vowel sounds that exist in Tiwi
words paired with consonants that
do not exist in Tiwi
Familiar vowel sounds in the first syllable of a
word with consonants that do not exist in Tiwi
/a/
with /f/
father
far
/f/
/v/
vampire
very
vision
/ʃ/
ship
/s/
sat
suit
see
sit
/h/
hat
hit
hood
/ð/
this
/b/
but
bit
bull
/a/
with
/s/
suck
sudde
nly
Sund
ay
/ɪ/
with /f/
fill
fin
/ɪ/
With
/ʊ/ with
/ʊ/
with
/f/
foot
full
/ɔ/ with
/f/
fond
folly
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/s/
sit
sick
sing
/s/
soup
super
man
suit
/ɔ/
with
/s/
soft
sorry
song
/a/
with /ʃ/
shut
/ɪ/
with /ʃ/
ship
/ʊ/
with /ʃ/
shoot
/ɔ/
with /ʃ/
shop
shot
/d/
dip
dam
/tʃ/
chip
chuck
chop
/ɡ/
give
good
guppy
Year Four
Consonant sounds
Phonemes
Consonants that do not exist in
Tiwi words
Medial and ending consonants that are not in Tiwi
/f/
life
suffer
laugh
/z/
razor
dizzy
dogs
/ɡ/
dog
bogged
/tʃ/
batch
church
cockroa
ch
/ʃ/
fashion
passion
fish
wish
/ð/
father
smooth
Vowel Sounds
Phonemes
Vowel sounds that exist in Tiwi
words paired with consonants that
do not exist in Tiwi
Familiar vowel sounds in the first syllable of a
word with consonants that do not exist in Tiwi
/a/
with
/a/
with
/a/
with
/v/
vultu
re
/θ/
thump
thumb
/h/
hub
hut
/ɪ/
with
/ɪ/
with
/ɪ/
with
/v/
vehicl
e
/θ/
thief
theme
thing
/h/
he
heat
/ɔ/
with
/ɔ/
with
/ɔ/
with
/v/
volca
no
/θ/
thong
/h/
hot
hop
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volley
/θ/
path
panthe
r
/d/
dad
load
ladder
/s/
kiss
ice
whistle
whisper
/ɪ/
with
/ʊ/
with
/a/
with
/b/
bin
busin
ess
/b/
book
bull
/b/
bump
buck
/v/
live
lively
/b/
cab, cob
baby
babe
/h/
ahead
/ɔ/
with
/b/
body
Year Five
Consonant sounds
Phonemes
Sound combinations/clusters that
do not exist in Tiwi words
Consonant clusters that are not in Tiwi – word
beginnings
/k w/
quick,
quality
quake
/kl/
clean
clown
/k ɹ/
crown
creep
/bl/
blow
block
/b ɹ/
bring
broke
n
/p ɹ/
pride
principal
Vowel Sounds
Phonemes
Vowel sounds that exist in Tiwi
words followed by
consonants/consonant clusters
that do not exist in Tiwi
Familiar vowel sounds in the middle and end of
words with consonants/consonant clusters that do
not exist in Tiwi
/ɪ/
with
single
consona
nts
big
bitter
give
/ɪ/
with
consonant
clusters
pretty
blink
splint
bridge
brisk
fidget
fridge
frill
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/ɔ/
with single
consonant
s
fog
lot
bog
frisky
gift
flinch
/p l/
plan
ply
/d ɹ/
drive
drop
/f l/
fling
fly
/f ɹ/
free
from
/ɡ ɹ/
green
grow
growl
/ɡ l/
/s t/
stand
store
/s l/
slip
slide
/s w/
swing
sweep
glass
glint
glide
/s k/
scuffle
scuttle
skeleto
n
/s n/
snore
snap
/s m/
/s k w/
squint
squeez
e
/s p/
space
spit
/t ɹ/
trick
tread
smile
smash
/ɔ/
with
consona
nt
clusters
fond
froth
block
body
box
salt
/ʊ/
with
single
consonant
s
book
full
/a/
with
consona
nt
clusters
fungus
fudge
bumpy
bubble
brush
crust
trust
/ʊ/
with
consonant
clusters
cooked
looked
/a/
with single
consonant
bug
butter
buzz
fun
Year Six
Consonant sounds
Phonemes
Sound combinations that do not
exist in Tiwi words
Vowel Sounds
Phonemes
Consonant clusters that are not in Tiwi – word
endings
Sound combinations that do not
exist in Tiwi words
Vowel/dipthong sounds that are not in Tiwi with
consonants/consonant clusters that are not in
Tiwi – beginnings of words
/n k/
bank
/f d /
laughed
lifted
/n d /
wind
land
/e/
head,
said
set
/ε/
hair,
bear
bare
/ǽ/
had
fad
/m s/
becomes
/ŋ d /
banged
/f s/
/ʉ/
blue,
/o/
bought
/ɜ/
bird
coughs
laughs
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plums
winged
shoe,
boot
door
fought
hall
heard
quirk
slur
/v s/
lives
gives
/dʒ s/
wages
cages
/p s/
snaps
flips
/i/
feet
beat
/æɪ/
play
bait
blade
flay
fray
gave
stay
slay
stray
/ɑe/
bike
blight
sight
slight
dial
try
/ɡ z/
dogs
frogs
/ŋ s/
sings
brings
/l s/
cools
kills
/əʉ/
bloke
boat
show
drone
groan
home
prone
stone
zone
/æɔ/
shout
down
brown
blouse
drown
frown
founder
ground
hound
proud
plough
sow
vow
/oɪ/
boy
doily
foible
soy
/k s/
kicks
locks
kd/
backed
mocked
/d t/
addic
t
/ʊə/
sewer
doer
viewer
/ɪə/
fear
beard
dear
gear
hear
here
queer
rear
steer
veer
/æɔ ə/
sour
flower
dour
bower
glower
/l t/
holt
colt
/l d /
cold
meld
/t s/
/s t/
/dʒ d/
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what’s
spits
taste
wrist
dodge
d
badge
d
/d s/
finds
reminds
/ɡ d /
bogged
/n s/
runs
natio
ns
Year Seven
Consonant sounds
Phonemes
Comparing the sound system of
Tiwi and English
Consonant clusters that are not in Tiwi – medial
and end of words
/t v/
persona
l
Suffienc
y
buoyanc
y
burocrac
y
Ostentat
ious
deliciou
s
Approva
l
removal
Camel
Crumble
stumble
Fasten
Hasten
analyst
conscien
ce
anthem
antholo
gy
burdenso
me
disappoi
ntment
adjective
positive
Vowel Sounds
Phonemes
Comparing the sound system of
Tiwi and English
Vowel sounds that are not in Tiwi with
consonants/consonant clusters that are not in Tiwi
medial and end of words
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Year Eight
Consonant sounds
Phonemes
Comparing the sound system of
Tiwi and English
Phonemes
Consonant clusters that are not in Tiwi – medial
Camoufl
age
athlet
ics
Vowel Sounds
Comparing the sound system of
Tiwi and English
answer
Congratu
late
congress
Year Nine
Phonemes
Consonant sounds
Listening for/recognising and
using ‘hidden’ sounds in spoken
English
Phonemes
Vowel Sounds
Listening for/recognising and
using ‘hidden’ sounds in spoken
English
Year Ten
Phonemes
Listening for/recognising and
using ‘hidden’ sounds in spoken
English
Consonant sounds
Phonemes
Listening for/recognising and
using ‘hidden’ sounds in spoken
English
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Vowel Sounds
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