PRONUNCIATION IN ENGLISH

In house training of EASY SPEAK: Vowel sound

Why English Pronunciation?

There is a need

- To improve intelligibility - To enhance listening comprehension There is a dream -To speak like a native speaker There is a must -To become more effective in oral communication

General British & General American

GB
: : i:

GA
kit, ship, bridge, milk, myth, busy dress, step, neck, edge, shelf, friend trap, tap, back, badge, hand, cancel lot, stop, sock, possible, quality truck, cup, suck, budge, pulse, trunk foot, put, bush, full, good, look, wolf bath, staff, brass, ask, dance, calf cloth, cough, broth, cross, long r nurse, hurt, lurk, burst, jerk, term i fleece, speak, leave, feel, key, people

GB GA e day : : o u: view a a
a e

face, tape, cake, raid, veil, steak,

palm, psalm, father, bra, spa, larger thought, taught, sauce, jaw, broad goat, soap, joke, home, know, so u goose, loop, shoot, tomb, huge,

: : :

price, ripe, write, arrive, try, buy choice, avoid, noise, join, toy, royal a mouth, out, house, loud, crowd, cow (r near, beer, sincere, fear, beard e(r square, care, fair, pear, scarce, vary (r start, far, bark, carve, farm, heart (r north, for, short, scorch, born, warm o(r force, four, sport, porch, borne, story (r cure, poor, tourist, pure, plural, jury

Some of the minimal pairs of English phonemes( source: Crystal, 1997:162)

beat---bit

/i:/ --- /i/ bit---bet /i/ --- /e/ bet---bat /e/ --- // bat---but // --- / /\ / but---heart / /\ / --- /a:/

 heart---hot pot---port port---put full---fool cool---curl

/a:/ --- / / // --- / : / / : / --- /u/ /u/ --- /u:/ /u:/ --- /:/

 girl---gale tale---tile toil---toll

tone---town
how---here here---hair

pair---poor
poor---pea

/ :/ --- /ei/ /ei/ --- /ai/ / i / --- / u/ / u /---/au/ /au/ --- /i / /i / ---/ / / / --- /u / /u / ---/i:/

 pin---bin bin---tin tin---din din---kin coat---goat got---hot

height---might
might---night kin---king

/p/ --- /b/ /b/ --- /t/ /t/---/d/ /d/---/k/ /k/---/g/ /g/---/h/ /h/---/m/ /m/---/n/ /n/---//

 tin---till led---red lad---wad

wet---yet
yolk---choke choke---joke jade---fade fail---veil heave---heath

//---/l/ /l/---/r/ /r/---/w/ /w/---/j/ /j/---/t / / t /---/d/ / d /---/f/ /f/---/v/ /v/---//

 wreath---wreathe though---sew

bus---buzz
zoo---shoe Confucian---confusion beige---bait

//---/=/ /=/---/s/ /s/---/z/ /z/---/ / / /---/ / / /---/t/

Exercise of identifying minimal pairs

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sun/son tore/door teach/cheat pit/tip fail/gale impotent/important Confucian/confusion recent/decent stop/atop