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Chapter: 05. Foreign Lands

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Language Lab: Understanding Hard and Soft ‘c’ Sounds

When you see the letter ‘c’ in English, it can make two different sounds: a hard ‘c’ sound (like the ‘k’ in ‘kite’) or a soft ‘c’ sound (like the ‘s’ in ‘snake’). Here’s how to know which one it is:

Hard ‘c’ sound (/k/): The ‘c’ usually makes a hard /k/ sound when it comes before the vowels a, o, u, or before consonants (like ‘l’, ‘r’, ‘t’), or when it’s at the end of a word.

Examples: cat, come, cut, clean, muscle, plastic

Soft ‘c’ sound (/s/): The ‘c’ usually makes a soft /s/ sound when it comes before the vowels e, i, y.

Examples: cent, city, cycle

Let’s practice identifying these sounds!

Read these words aloud. Circle the words that contain the hard /c/ sounds and underline the ones that contain the soft /c/ sounds. There may be some words without soft or hard /c/ sounds.

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Answers:

crash

(Hard /c/ sound)

ice

(Soft /c/ sound)

celebrate

(Soft /c/ sound for the first ‘c’, Hard /c/ sound for the second ‘c’ - underline ‘ce’, circle ‘bra’)

keep

(No ‘c’ sound)

citrus

(Soft /c/ sound)

table

(No ‘c’ sound)

cupboard

(Hard /c/ sound)

cap

(Hard /c/ sound)

cypress

(Soft /c/ sound)

circle

(Soft /c/ sound for the first ‘c’, Hard /c/ sound for the second ‘c’ - underline ‘ci’, circle ‘cl’)

glass

(No ‘c’ sound)

car

(Hard /c/ sound)

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