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Hi, everybody and welcome to this video.
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Now in this video, I want to talk about the difference between consonants and vowels.
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Now, in the English alphabet, there are twenty-six letters.
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And in the alphabet, there are five main vowels and one special vowel.
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And the rest are consonants.
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So, let's look at the board.
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Here's the alphabet.
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The first letter, 'a', is a vowel.
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The next letter, 'b', is a consonant.
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'c' is a consonant.
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'd' consonant.
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'e' is a vowel.
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Then, 'f', is a consonant.
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'g' consonant.
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'h' consonant.
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'e' is another vowel.
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'j' is a consonant.
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'k' consonant.
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'l', 'm', 'n' are consonants.
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'o' is another vowel.
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'p', 'q', 'r', 's' and 't', these are all consonants.
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'u' is the last main vowel. 'v' consonant.
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'w' consonant.
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'x' consonant.
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'y' is the special vowel.
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And we'll talk about that more later on.
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And 'z' is the last letter, and it is a
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consonant.
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Okay, so, there are twenty-six letters in the alphabet.
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There are five main vowels.
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One special vowel.
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And the rest are consonant.
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Okay, let's move on to the next part.
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Okay…
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Let's look at some words.
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Now all English words have vowels.
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Maybe one or many vowels.
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So, let's look at these words.
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The first word is “cat”.
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Okay, we have 'c' is a consonant.
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'a' a vowel.
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't' consonant.
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“Egg”.
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'e' is a vowel.
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And 'g', 'g'.
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'g' is a consonant.
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“Hit”.
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'h' is a consonant.
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'i' a vowel.
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And 't' a consonant.
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“Top”.
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't' is a consonant.
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'o' is a vowel.
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And 'p' a consonant.
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The last word is “cut”.
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'c' is a consonant.
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'u' a vowel.
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And 't' a consonant.
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So, we have the main vowels: 'a', 'e', 'i', 'o', 'u'.
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Now, I said 'y' is a special vowel.
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That's because sometimes it's a vowel and sometimes it's a consonant.
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So, let's look.
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In the word, “why”, the letter 'y' sounds like 'i'.
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“Why”.
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So, it is a vowel.
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“Bicycle”.
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The letter 'y' sounds like 'i'.
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“Bicycle”.
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'i' is the letter 'i' right, it sounds like the letter 'i'.
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So, in this case 'y' is also a vowel.
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“Pretty”.
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“Pretty”.
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'y' sounds like 'e'.
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Okay…
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“Pretty”.
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So, it's a vowel.
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Now, in the last two words, “you” and “yes”, the letter 'y' is a consonant.
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Usually, if 'y' comes at the beginning of a word, or if it makes a /u/ sound, for
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example, “you”, “yes”, it is a consonant.
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Okay…
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So again, five main vowels: 'a', 'e', 'i', 'o', 'u'.
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And 'y' the special vowel.
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Now to help us remember vowels, we can say, “a, e, i, o, u and sometimes y.”
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Okay, repeat again after me.
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“a, e, i, o, u and sometimes y.”
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One more time, faster.
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“a, e, i, o, u and sometimes y.”
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Okay, and that's the end of this video.
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Thank you.
