Exercise 5-6:

Finding L Sounds

Pause the CD, and find and mark all the L sounds in the familiar paragraph below;

the first one is marked for you. There are seventeen of them;

five are silent.

Afterwards, check Answer Key, beginning on page 193.

Exercise 5-7:

Silent Ls

Once you've found all the L sounds, the good news is that very often you don't even have to pronounce them.

Read the following list of words after me.

1. would could should

2. chalk talk walk

3. calm palm psalm

4. already alright almond

5. although almost always

6. salmon alms Albany

7. folk caulk polka