hi everybody and welcome to this video
now in this video I want to talk about
the difference between consonants and
vowels now in the English alphabet there
are 26 letters and in the alphabet there
are five main vowels and one special
vowel and the rest are consonants so
let's look at the board here's the
alphabet the first letter a is a vowel
the next letter B is a consonant C is a
consonant D consonant e is a vowel then
F is a consonant G consonant H consonant
I is another vowel J is a consonant K
consonant l MN are consonants o is
another vowel p q r s and T these are
all consonants U is the last main vowel
V consonant W consonant and X consonant
Y is the special vowel and we'll talk
about that more later on and z is the
last letter and it is a consonant okay
so there are 26 letters in the alphabet
there are five main vowels one special
vowel and the rest are consonants okay
let's move on to the next part
okay well let's look at some words now
all English words have vowels maybe one
or many vowels so let's look at these
words the first word is cat okay we have
C is a consonant a a vowel T consonant
egg e is a vowel and GG G is a consonant
hit H is a consonant I a vowel and T a
consonant top T is a consonant o is a
vowel and P is a consonant the last word
is cut C is a consonant you a vowel and
T a consonant so we have the main vowels
a e i o u now I said Y is a special
vowel that's because sometimes it's a
vowel and sometimes it's a consonant so
let's look in the word why the letter Y
sounds like I Y so it is a vowel bicycle
the letter Y sounds like a bicycle it is
the letter I write it sounds like the
letter I so in this case Y is also a
vowel pretty pretty why sounds like e
okay pretty so it's a vowel now in the
last two words you and yes the letter Y
is a consonant usually if Y comes at the
beginning of a word or if it makes a
year sound for example you yes it is a
consonant
okay so again
five main vowels a e I owe you and why
the special vowel now to help us
remember vowels we can say a I owe you
and sometimes why okay repeat again
after me a II I owe you
and sometimes why one more time faster
AE I owe you and sometimes why okay and
that's the end of this video thank you