2. When a vowel sounds like itsname, this is calleda long sound.
A vowel lettercan also have short sounds.Whether a vowel has a
longsound, a short sound, orremains silent, depends on itsposition
in a word and theletters around it. 3. Long Vowels 1When a short
word or syllable endswithavowel consonantecombination (a-k-e), the
vowel isusually long and the "e" at the endof the word is silent
(this rule doesnot apply in all cases).Examples of a vowel
consonant ecombination are: bake, ride, pole,tune. 4. Long Vowels
2When a word or syllable has asingle vowel and the vowelappears at
the end of theword or syllable, the vowelusually makes the long
sound.Examples are: no, he, go 5. Examples of long vowels in
thesewords:LONG AAPELAKEGATELONG EEATFEETEEL 6. LONG
IICEBERGSKITEBITE LONG OOAK LONELY POTATOESLONG UUKULELEUFOUNITED
7. Im going to talk about the vowel;in English there are two types
ofshort and long vowels. 8. DEFINITIONA vowel is a letter
whichmakes a distinct sound byitself. The vowels in theEnglish
language are:AEIOU 9. But Im going to talk aboutshort vowels:Short
vowels when there is asingle vowel in a short wordor syllable, the
vowel usuallymakes a short sound. Theseshort vowels usually appear
atthe beginning of the word orbetween two consonants. 10. Examples
of short vowels are found inthese words:Short Short Short Short
Shorta e i o umap egg kingsockmugapple helpsix songbushat fellwig
job rugplanbed grinstopluckant red fishtop lunch 11. PRESENTADO
POR:CYNTHIA CAICEDO MONTEROYELIXA HERRERA MORENOLIC. EN LENGUA
CASTELLANA,INGLES Y FRANCES. 12. THANK YOU
