Fricatives: labiodental

Examples:

• Fine
• View
• Think 
• This
• See
• Easy
• Sheeo
• Pleasure

/f/

Most students do not have difficulties with /f/. It may appear in initial (fish, find,,..), media or final

Spelling:

  -f: fine, flew, off

  -off: offer

  -ph: physics, phonetics

  -gh: laugh

/v/

We do not have this sound in Spanish because we usually replace it with /b/. It is helpful the contrast of the sound in isolation, begging, with /f/, for example: fino/vino; faca/vaca.

Spelling /v/

The sound /v/ is usually written with the leter 'v' (visitor, heavy, seven, eleven, seventeen, seventy). Other spellings: 

• ve: give, have, five, twelve.
• f: of but 'a bowl of fruit'.