Doubled letters minimal pairs practice

Doubled letters minimal pairs practice

Without looking below, listen to your teacher read out some English words and race to raise the “Doubled letter” card if you think that the word has -bb-, -dd-, -mm-, -nn-, -pp-, or -tt- in it. If there is no doubled letter, just keep your card down. If you are scoring, you get five points for holding the card up first, but lose a point if you raise it when there is no doubled letter.

Try to work out the pattern for when letters are doubled and aren’t doubled below. Your teacher will tell you what level or levels to look at.

How are A, I, O and U pronounced below? How would that work for E?

How do the words below end? What single letter would have the same effect at the end after a single consonant?

Ask about any words that you don’t understand, are not sure how to pronounce, etc in the section(s) that you looked at. Ones in italics are not important to understand the meaning of at that level, so there is no need to check the meaning of those.

Test each other:

• Play the same raising cards game
• Draw something to represent a word and see if your partner can write and say the word
• Say a word which can be drawn and see if your partner can draw the right thing
• Define one of the words and see if your partner can say it with the right pronunciation
• Pronounce and define a word and see if your partner can pronounce and define the other one on the same line

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Cards to hold up

Doubled letter	Doubled letter
Doubled letter	Doubled letter
Doubled letter	Doubled letter

 

 

Elementary and Pre-Intermediate 1.     cutter cuter 2.     dinner diner 3.     sitting siting 4.     slimming sliming 5.     hopping hoping 6.     stripped striped 7.     supper super 8.     winning wining	Intermediate 9.     batting bating 10.  bitter biter 11.  knotting noting 12.  latter later 13.  mopping moping 14.  robbing robing 15.  scrapping scraping 16.  sitting siting 17.  slimming sliming 18.  spitting spiting
Upper-Intermediate 19.  bidding biding 20.  finned fined 21.  gripping griping 22.  hatter hater 23.  pinning pining 24.  ridding riding 25.  robbing robing 26.  scatting skating 27.  tapping taping 28.  whipping wiping 29.  winning wining	Advanced 30.  batting bating 31.  bidding biding 32.  canning caning 33.  dotting doting 34.  gripping griping 35.  kitting kiting 36.  lopping loping 37.  mopping moping 38.  panned paned 39.  pinning pining 40.  ratting rating 41.  ripper riper 42.  shinning shining 43.  slatted slated 44.  slopping sloping 45.  snipping sniping 46.  spitting spiting 47.  totting toting 48.  winning whining

 

Card to hold up

 

Doubled letter