American Sports and Consonants

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Group 4 Presentation on American Sports & Consonants

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American Sports Native American people played a variety of ball games including some that may be viewed as earlier forms of Lacrosse. But today’s ball games arose from children’s bat ball and football games that were brought to America by first settlers that arrive from Europe in 17th Century .These games were refashioned and elaborated in the course of the 19th century and eventually became the typical American sports of basketball, baseball, and Football. In their current forms these are the most popular sports in the US American Football Basket ball Base ball Ice Hockey Super bowl

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American Sports American Football

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American Sports American Football Outside US and Canada, the sport is referred to as American football to differentiate it from other football games especially association football and rugby football. American football evolved as a separate sport from rugby Football in the late 19th Century. The 32-team National Football League (NFL) is the most popular and only major professional American football league Its championship game, the Super Bowl, is watched by nearly half of US television households. Additional millions also watch college football throughout the autumn months, and some communities, particularly in rural areas, place great emphasis on their local high school football team.

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American Sports Basket ball

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American Sports Basket ball Basketball was invented in Springfield, Massachusetts, by Canadian physical education teacher James Naismith The National Basketball Association, more popularly known as the NBA, is the world's premier men's professional basketball league and one of the major professional sports leagues of North America. Basket ball is a ball sport in which , under organized rules two teams of five players each try to score points by throwing a ball through a hoop. It is primarily an indoor sport, played in a relatively small playing area known as court The speed and grace of the game combined with the close proximity of the spectators to the action, make basketball an exiting sport. This is one of the major sport of US.

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American Sports Base ball

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American Sports Base ball Base ball is a team sport, a bat and ball game in which a hard, fist-sized ball is thrown by a defensive player called a pitcher from a pitcher mound 60 ½ feet away to an offensive player called as the batter who stands at a plate called home & attempts to hit it with a tapered, cylindrical, smooth stick called bat Baseball has a huge following and is referred to as the "national pastime“. Major League Baseball teams play almost every day from April to October The World Series is the championship series of Major League Baseball, the culmination of the sport's postseason each October. It is played between the pennant winner of the American League and the pennant winner of the National League

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American Sports Ice Hockey

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American Sports Ice Hockey Ice hockey , known simply as hockey in Canada and US, is a team sport played on ice. It is one of world’s fastest Sports with players on skates capable of going high speeds On natural or artificial ice surfaces. The National Hockey League is the major professional league in North America , and 24 of its 30 teams are based in the United States; the other six are located in Canada. Hockey legends include Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux, Bobby Orr and Gordie Howe.

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American Sports Super bowl

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American Sports Super bowl In, professional American football, the Super Bowl is the Championship game of the National Football League (NFL) In the US. Since 1967, it has been played annually after the regular season and the playoff end either on the last Sunday in January or the first Sunday in February. The Super Bowl is usually the most-watched U.S. television broadcast of the year, attracting many companies to spend millions of dollars on commercials. The Super Bowl uses Roman numerals to identify each game, rather than the year it was held. The NFL season extends beyond New Year's Eve, so identifying the games by the year of the Super Bowl could cause some confusion.

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Consonent Sounds All letters other than A, E, I, O, U are consonants. Consonant sound are those sound that are produced where there is obstruction to the passage of air along the oral cavity. We can say that Consonant sound are produced by the partial interruption of breath flow. Consonant sound give clarity and sharpness to a word. They do the work of making our speech crisp and clear.

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Consonant Sounds Z (his) Zh (rouge) J (ledge) Th (them) V (have) Y (year) D (seed) B (mob) G (gum) W (war) M (memory) N (nice) R (rage) L (large) NG (sing) S (miss) Sh (cash) Ch (clutch) Th (method) F (wife) H (heart) T (sit) P (map) K (car) Voiced Unvoiced

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R Repair Occur Appear Error Regular Wrong Service Report Urgent Repeat This speech sound is the style- giving factor to the American accent. The sound made is similar to the croaking of a frog ‘Err’. We need to curl our tongue inwards without touching any speech organ to get the ‘R’ V Version Vibration Verify Available Envy Vision Revision Conversion We bite the v’s . V is a quicker and crisper sound Also if v is in the middle, we cannot bite the v. In that case it is the gentle press of the upper jaw on the lower lips. Voiced Voiced

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W Wednesday Windows Warranty Water Award Where Wind Won We kiss the W’s W is a larger sound as compared to R. We need to round/pout our lips to get this sound, just the way when we wistle. Th Though Although They Brother Rhythm Bother This Mother This is a voiced speech sound. It produces a vibration in the vocal cord position your tongue in the upper ridge to produce this sound. Voiced Voiced

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Zh Pleasure Television Provision Transfusion Measure Version Usual Vision Voiced Unvoiced K Customer Conference Academic Command Connectors Close Kilo Control Words which have C, K and Q are pronounced as “Kh”. This means that as “H” borders the speech sound “K”

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P Plug Snap Power Papa Pavement Problem Please Tape Aspirated “P” Words which means that an “n” borders the speech sound “P”. However if “H” follows the “P” sound it makes a “F” sound. e.g. Photograph, Phonetic T Tenant Tabulate Tight Ticket Street Put Set Feet ‘T’ in the beginning of a word is aspirated. This means we release a distinct puff of air when we pronounce these speech sounds Unvoiced Unvoiced

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