Oral Recitation Grade 9

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Individual Oral Reading Test

Name:___________________________________________________ Grade: _________________


Rating: _________________

The Vowel Sounds of American English


Phonetic Symbol Key Word Transcription
/i/ bead /bid/
/I/ Bid /bId/
/e/ bake /bek/
/Ɛ/ bet /bƐt/
/ǽ/ bat /bǽt/
/a/ balm /bam/
/ɔ/ bought /bɔt/
/o/ bone /bon/
/ʊ/ book /bʊk/
/ṷ/ boot /bṷt/
/^/ buck /b^k/
/ ∂ / schwa above /∂b^v/
/ɝ/ Burst /bɝst/
/ɚ/ Bunker /b^ŋkɚ

The Front Vowels


/ i / - long e bead bean beater
/ I / - short e bid been bit
/ e / - ‘ey’ bane bait bayed
/ ɛ / - ‘eh’ bed bet Ben
/ǽ/- bad bat ban

The Central Vowels


/a/- modern bazaar bureaucracy
/^/- buck done nut
/ ə / - schwa about absolute arena
/ ɝ / - stressed early bird deter
/ ɚ / - unstressed billiard effort dollar

The Back Vowels


/ɔ/- bought call shaw
/o/- boat cold show
/ʊ/- book could should
/ṷ/- boot cooed stewed

The Diphthongs of American English


/ ɔI / - ‘oy’ coil boil soil
/ aʊ / - ‘aw’ hour ouch ounce
1/ aI / - ‘ai’ aisle senile wide

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