Profesorado Semi Presencial Mag. Profa.

Ma Beatriz Martinez
Phonetics & Phonology I Pre-Midterm test QUIZ

I. Choose the homophones in brackets to fill the gaps

1. You’re not ____________________ to play music in your room after half eleven at night. (allowed /
aloud)
2. Wheat is ground into ____________________ for making bread. (flour / flower)
3. Matthew’s as mad as a March ___________________ (hair / hare).
4. It’s very late to go all that way now, Kristie. Why don’t you sleep at __________________ hours?
(hour / our)
5. The beautiful, pert young maiden was rescued by a boyish _________________ in shining armour.
(knight / night)
6. No ___________________ won the match. It was a draw. (one / won)
7. Why don’t you save your photos to cd? It’s not difficult to do. In fact, it’s a _________________ of
cake. (peace / piece)
8. Josh was 18 the first time he saw the _________________ (sea / see).
9. I think I need glasses. I’m getting headaches and my __________________ isn’t as sharp as it was.
(sight / site)
10. Some rat’s stolen my _________________ Zippo lighter. (steal / steel)

II.

Taken from: Bowler, B. and Cunningham, S. (2002). New Headway Pronunciation Course. Upper-
Intermediate. Oxford. Oxford University Press.

III. Look at the following common expressions. Put a stress mark in each stressed syllable, then
divide them into feet by placing a dotted line at each foot boundary

1. sooner or later 6. Silence is golden.

2. in a moment 7. Honesty is the best policy.
3. an apple a day 8. Truth is stranger than fiction.
4. to tell the truth 9. A penny saved is a penny earned.
5. as soft as a kitten 10. To err is human; to forgive is divine.
Profesorado Semi Presencial Mag. Profa. Ma
Beatriz Martinez
Phonetics & Phonology I Pre-Midterm test QUIZ

IV. Look at the following transcriptions. Draw their accentual pattern

1. /sæləri/-

2. /rɪəlaɪzd/-

3. /evribɒdi/-

4. /rispɒntsəbɪləti/-

5. /ðæt/-

V. Read the following short poems and identify stressed syllables bearing rhythm in
mind

1. ‘Bad boy makes good’ 2. ‘The Red Knight’

Aladdin was lazy. Sir Lancelot

He never would learn. Loved Guinevere
But now he’s a rich man He blushed a lot
With money to burn. When she was near.

Source: New Headway Pronunciation Upper-Intermediate- B. Bowler & S. Cunningham, OUP

1999, 3rd impression 2002

VI. Identify and mark the syllable structure of the following words, then transcribe
them phonemically

1. Live (v.)

2. Advice

3. Feeling

4. Phonetics

5. Jump