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Pronunciation

The document provides a comprehensive overview of English vowel and consonant sounds, including short and long vowel sounds, diphthongs, and consonant pairs. Each sound is illustrated with example words to aid pronunciation. It serves as a resource for learners to improve their phonetic understanding and articulation in English.
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Pronunciation

The document provides a comprehensive overview of English vowel and consonant sounds, including short and long vowel sounds, diphthongs, and consonant pairs. Each sound is illustrated with example words to aid pronunciation. It serves as a resource for learners to improve their phonetic understanding and articulation in English.
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Pronunciation

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD6B222E02447DC07
https://www.englishlanguageclub.co.uk/videos/phonetics/

Short Vowel Sounds

[ɪ]
kit, bid, hymn, minute
[ɪ] [i:]
hit - heat, lip - leap, sick - seek, will - wheel

sitting, pig, give, in, it, live, pin, gym, fit, lick, ship, pick, kill, bill, build, sick

[ʊ]
foot, put, good

look, put, would, should, could, sugar, good, book, bullet, cook

[ʌ]
strut, mud, love, blood
[ʌ] [æ]
unkle - ankle, bunk - bank, but - bat, cup - cap, swum - swam

fun, nut, bun, bus, cut, does, sum, thumb, son, done

[ɒ]
lot, odd, wash

doll, what, pot, not, hot, rock, was, stop, got, block, box, shot, knot, job, want, dog,
lost, off, log, fog, watch

[ə]
a, the, of, that
a​
bout, c​o​mmon, stand​a​rt, butt​e​r
a​
ccuse, b​ a​nan​a​, fath​e​r, camer​a
a cup of tea - cuppa
a piece of cake

teache
​ ​r, c​o​ntrol, stand​a​rt, butt​e​r, s​u​pply, t​o​day, ​a​round, t​o​geth​e​r, Sat​u​rday, both​e​r,
wante
​ ​d, mothe ​ ​r, stol​e​n

[e]
dress, head, bed, many
[e] [ɪ]
bed - bid, medal - middle, dead - did, fell - fill, pen - pin

get, men, well, tell, spell, end, let, help, melt, met, send, death, ten, egg, head, best,
west, chest, wet, ten, set

[æ]
trap, stamp, back, lap

bad, mad, add, map, back, can, man, fat, hand, crab, catch, fact, bank, frank, lamp,
gas, lad, black, that, cap

Long Vowel Sounds

[i:]
fleece, sea, machine
[i:] [ɪ]
litre - litter, cheap - chip, feet - fit, he’s - his, peach - pitch, sheep - ship

green, treat, seat, weep, eat, been, sleep, bean,speak, each, sheep, these, three,
meet, people, leaves, feel, free, cream, treat, we, me, breathe, tweet, peace, seek,
deep, tea

[u:]
goose, two, blue, group

moon, blue, grew, move, few, through, who, you, threw, too, tool, tooth, cool, rule,
school, use, tune, fool, soon, new, do, new

[ɑ:]
father, start, hard

car, star, class, far, dark, park, dance, ask, task, fast, bath, hard, last, past, half, part,
glass, grass, chance, aunt, art, grasp, arm, bar, smart, large, pass, laugh, calm

[ɔ:]
thought, law, north, war
torn, door, warn, haul, law, call, ball, store, or, more, core, small, horse, draw, walk,
saw, bought, claw, talk, four, board, lord, door, board, shore, fought, call, floor,
course, warm, chalk, court, force, fourth, wall

[ɜ:]
nurse, stir, learn, refer

burn, first, term, heard, work, girl, firm, curl, bird, sir, were, fur, earth, pearl, hurt, turn,
blur, prefer, purse, curse, her, earl

Diphthongs

[ɪə]
near, here, weary

fear, beer, ear, clear, rear, hear, year, really, merely, area, material, period,
experience, idea, career, appear, atmosphere

[​
ʊə]
tour, pure, cure

our, during, security, fuel, poor, hour, boor

[aɪ]
price, try, high

life, by, mind, cry, idea, either, child, wild, might, five, guy, my, why, shine, light,
bright, item

[ɔɪ]
choice, noise, boy

boy, point, voice, join, oil, toy, enjoy, avoid, employee, coin, boil, joint, destroy, foil,
toilet, join, Troy

[əʊ]
boat, show,know

no, old, though, open, those, own, program, only, hold, most, over

[əʊ] ​
[ɔ:]
coat - cought, dough - door, sew - saw, flow - floor
[eə]
square, fair, pair

there, where, area, hair, parent, air, care, various, dare, wear, share

[eə] ​
[æ]
dared - dad, glared - glad, Mary - marry

[aʊ]
mouth, now, fowl

about, town, out, ground, down, our, house, power, tower, however, loud, around

[aʊ] [əʊ]
couch - coach, clown - clone, loud - load, found - phoned

[eɪ]
face, day, break

they, make, great, take, same, way, case, game, age, able, agent, state, later,
change, play, away, stay, pray

[eɪ] ​
[i:]
ate - eat, faced - feast, great - greet, mate - meet

Consonants

[n]
nice, funny, son, none

[n] [ŋ]
son - sung, pin - ping, ran - rang, thin - thing, wind - winged

[m]
more, hanner, some, mime

[m] [n] [ŋ]


sum - sun - sung, rum - run - rung

[p]
pack, pan, copy, happen, hop, pop

[p] [b]
pack - back, punch - bunch, pump - bump, pull - bull

[t]
tin, button, get, tight

[t] [d]
tin - din, to - do, town - down, eight - aid, bet - bed

[ʧ]
choke, teacher, match, church

[ʧ] [ʤ]
choke - joke, chunk - junk, rich - ridge, lunch - lunge

[k]
came, lucky, sick, clock

[k] [g]
came- game, back - bag, cage - gauge, calories - galleries

[f]
fat, coffee, rough, fluff

[f] [v]
fan - van, leaf - leave, off- of, rifle - rival

[d]
dame, ladder, odd, did

[d] [t]
dame - tame, doom - tomb, medal - metal, heard - hurt

[b]
back, bag, hobby, habit, job, bob

[b] [p]
back - pack, bare - pair, cab - cap, symbol - simple

[ʃ]
ship, sure, nation, ship, shush

[ʃ] [s]
ship - sip, show - so, shy - sigh, chauffeur - sofa, shock - sock

[s]
soon, mister, hiss, cease

[s] [z]
hiss - his, course - cause, place - plays, gross - grows

[θ]
thin, throw, thumb, author, healthy, birth, path

[ʤ]
joke, lodger, bridge, judge

[ʤ] [ʧ]
joke - choke, junk - chunk, lunge - lunch, surge - search

[g]
glue, struggle, bag, gig

[g] [k]
glue - clue, ghost - coast, log - lock, pig - pick

[v]
very, heavy, move, verve

[v] [f]
vault - fault, believe - belief, live - life

[v] [b]
very - berry, vet - bet, vote - boat, vowel - bowel

[ð]
then, this, there, that, other, smooth

[z]
zero, music, buzz, roses

[z] [s]
buzz - bus, rise - rice, zip - sip, lazy - lacy

[ʒ]
leasure, pleasure, vision, beige

[h]
hear, hot, hello, ahead, height, hedge, how

[l]
light, valley, bell, level
leaf - feel, let - tell, loaf - foal, loot - tool

[l] [r]
led - red, clash - crash, clime - crime, lice - rice, lock - rock

[r]
right, wrong, sorry, arrange

[r] [l]
wrong - long, royal - loyal, misread - misled, pirat - pilot, pray - play

[r] linking
car, card, bored, hear, heard
this is my car - my car is blue

[w]
wet, one, when, beware, quick, queen

[w] [v]
wet - vet, worse - verse, while - vile, west - vest, wary - vary

[j]
yet, use, yellow, useful
beauty, few, cute, accuse

[ŋ]
anger, thanks, rung

[ŋ] [n]
rung - run, tongue - ton, wing - win, robbing - robin, singer - sinner

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