Part B: Exercises Vowels and Diphthongs Vowels fi: iif Which of the following words include these sounds? id keep ~ night ~ lit ~ late - fry MM feet sit — night - keen ~ sigh Vowels /ef fof /s/ Which of the following words include these sounds? Jel gate ~ feel — bell ~ grass — fade Jf book ~ street ~ name ~ father ~ sun Js] feed - bad food — fate ~ bird 3. Vowels Jas Jai fac! Which of the following words include these sounds? Jad water — night ~ cat ~ stars ~ paper Jnl fat ~ bet — look ~ food ~ cut Jae! late ~ cat — laugh — best ~ tea Practical Phonetics Phoiosapiabls PS mip tom 64. Vowels /nf a! Which of the following words include these sounds? Jol room ~ dog - card ~ word — soil Jol father — glass ~ law ~ hot - world 5. Vowels Jo! /u/ Which of the following words include these sounds? Jol cut ~ work ~ love ~ food ~ book fas food — luck — lost — burn ~ first 6. Diphthongs Which of the following words include these diphthongs? Je feed — bed — food ~ fight - say Jai said ~ read ~ high — food - says Jail should — boy — though — blood ~ so Jaof_ through ~ there ~ here ~ so — hot Jao! now — hair - face ~ tour — lower ‘rai there ~ seed ~ hair — late ~ here Jeal there ~ say ~ get ~ first ~ shoulder Joo! tower — tour — two — tooth ~ hand tical Phonetics Photocopete © eiige oo ’Pronunciation Tasks 1. Put the following words into the correct box according to the underlined sound. Use a dictionary to check your answers. steam flood tum asleep _ sleep flew should = saw cough heart bread flat busy. poor shirt path stamp system teacher does shoe sai wood hot sheep fit ship |v bed /e/ bad /x/ father /a:! bird /a/ sleep pat /n/ caught /a/ | put fof boot fad | cut /a/ ‘camera /9/ (Optional) Extension: Add two more words that you know for each sound. Use a dictionary to check. 2, Odd One Out. Circle the word 1. dead wean) 2. fruit suit 3, half have 4, horse history 5. look good 6. country young 7. oven colour 8, talk chalk bread juice has story foot youth son calm, head built ham cord blood couple gone fall a different sound. Use a dictionary to check.3. Fill in the blanks with the word which has got a different phonetic sound, 1. heat nothing love come 2. bird —— word bed earth 3. look pool full foot 4. dog fox cough caught oe 5. now voice out cow oe 6. idea volunteers. where near hear beer chair year enjoy boy point brown asked looked worried hooked 10. goes introduces loses —_ dresses 4. Group the following words according to the underlined sounds. each blue = ay ~— fight «= worry, house straw = tum silly found eam caught ill quite Just free eight June bee ugly = soup—ssixty, shirt, «ought tale. ~— bicycle mouse fal lel Jal dal bot Is Al 5. Identify the vowel sounds in each word and tick () the correct box. For some words, you will have to tick two boxes. Words | lel | tot | tet | fz | ww | Ww | tol | tes | tv | fot [iol | rad 9 ‘Practical Phonetics Pratcapisbie 99 maigoa Bos ’6. Identify the diphthong sounds in each word.and tick (W) the correct box. i Words | /aci | fav | feo! | foo! | fou’ | feos | few | hal theatre: care: security mountain lake nose height choice 7. Which groups do these words belong to? video: tie: rich: shirt: sit: ary: wine: skirt: river: kind: why: build: dirty: like: might: write: live: ship: Italy: life: five: 8. Which groups do these words belong to? —bag—that—fat Group 3: /o/: about ~ Japan — grammar — woman Group 2: /a:!: car — grass ~ arm ~ father Group 4: /o/: fall ~ small ~ all — saw. grandmother: apple: talk: tomato: dawn: have: ‘man: happy: walk: ball: hand: sat: park: start: hat: are: again: can: cathedral: bank: ask: tall: dark: dance: half: war: warm: bad: March: _ Pinata Photcopiabe 05 Bogan ae 109. Find the homophones of these words. Use a dictionary if necessary. flour sell night aisle-TIl hear knows bare mined red son wood dear die" their-they’re brake passed aloud whether 1. read Todye cell 2. weather 8. break 14. nose 3. here 9, allowed 1S. past 4, would 10, mind 16. there 5. flower 11. isle 17. deer 6. bear 12, sun 18. knight Remember! Homophones are those words which sound the same but have got different spelling and meanings. to. Tick (7) the correct box for each irregular verb according to its -ed ending. Verbs i Jal hat worked lived ‘stopped counted targeted paid | listened watched painted performed repeated helped asked printed warned Remember! The /d/ sound follows a vowel ot Voiced consonant. The /d/ sound follows a /t/ or /d/ sound at the end of a word, The // sound generally follows a voiceless consonant such as ch, sh k, $8 and p. "