PRONUNCIATION PRACTICE

SOUND SYMBOLS and EXAMPLES

TEACHER: SUHARYONO, M.PD.

NAME : ____________________

NIM : ____________________

NO SOUNDS EXAMPLES TRANSCRIPTIONS

1 ɑ: dark, laugh, hearth, guard
2 i: heat, feel, these, key
3 u: use, unique, moon, view
4 ɜ: learn, turn, world, fur
5 ɔ: (r) taught, walk, bought, cause
6 ʌ shut, son, blood, does
7 I study, myth, lip, kid
8 ʋ hook, should, full, push
9 ǝ ago, over, doctor, alone
10 ɒ shop, off, watch, drop
11 e cell, egg, death, friend
12 ӕ back, plan, act, acne
13 eI name, rain, great, pay
14 ai rice, fry, tie, fight
15 ɔI toy, coin, point, annoy
16 ǝu old, hoe, goal, acean
17 au power, cow, found, brown
18 eǝ (r) bare, there, wear, fair
19 p park, stop, happy, place
20 b big, job, rubber, cab
21 s seven, pass, science, concert
22 z zero, scissors, has, exam
23 t two, right, stay, finished
24 d do, feed, address, advice
25 f fit, calf, phonetic, laugh
26 v view, cover, save, of
27 k soccer, ache, quick, six
28 g game, dog, beggar, ghost
29 h whole, behind, high, hut
30 j year, pure, due, new
31 w war, one, where, swallow
32 r run, dry, write, rhyme
33 l long, old, allow, falling
34 m mine, same, dumb, hammer
35 n news, mean, manner, know
36 ŋ drinking, finger, anxious, anchor
37 ө thirty, throw, month, birth
38 ð clothe, other, with, this
39 tʃ chick, church, picture, kitchen
40 ʤ gesture, cabbage, orange, imagine
41 ʃ ocean, sugar, nation, sheep
 SOUND SYMBOLS and EXAMPLES

No Examples
Sounds
2 It’s hard to park a car in a dark car
ɑ: Calm, card, cart Star, starve, start Harm, halve, half
park

Scene, seas,
i: Key, keys, keeps Pea, peas, piece Steve keeps the cheese in the freezer
seat

3 Shoe, shoes, Sue knew too few new tunes on the

u: New, lose, soup
shoot flute

4 Were, word,
ɜ: Burn, bird, birth Her, heard, hurt The girl heard the nurse work
worst

5 Bore, bored, Call, cause, Laura’s daughter bought a horse and

ɔ: (r) War, wall, walk
bought caught called it Laura

6 Young, does, My mother’s brother’s my uncle; my

ʌ Come, blood, cut
must uncle’s son’s my cousin

7 I King, kid, kit Pink, pig, pick Fill, fish, fit Tim bit a bit of Kitty’s biscuits

8 That cook couldn’t cook if he didn’t

ʋ Full, good, foot Wolf, would, put
look at a cook book

9 away, garden, Banana, paper, Woman, under, I ate an apple and a banana in a
ǝ police, support doctor, figure correct, colour cinema in Canada

10 John wants to watch Walter wash the

ɒ Wrong, rob, rock Gone, god, got Doll, dog, dock
dog

11 Friend, said,
e Test, death, red Check, shelf, leg It’s best to rest, said the vet to the pet
many

12 ӕ Bank, bag, back Can, cash, catch Ham, has, hat The fat cat sat on the man’s black hat

13 ai Why, wide, wife Buy, buys, bike Fly, flies, flight Nile crocodiles have the widest smiles

14 eǝ (r) Square, squares Where, where’s Fair, fairly Sarah and Mary share their pears fairly

15 How, houses, Now, sound, Town, ground, Mrs. Brown counted cows coming
au
house south count down the mountain

16 ɔI Toy, noise, voice Boil, coin, choice Employ, enjoyed Roy enjoys noisy toys

17 Play, played, Grey, grade, The rain in Spain falls mainly on the
ei Aim, age, eight
plate great plane

18 Rose knows Joes phones Sophie, but

Comb, code,
ǝu Toe, toes, toast Roll, rose, rope Sophie and Joe don’t know Rose
coat
knows

19 Park, please, Open, apple,

p Tape, help, jump Pat put purple paint in the pool
price spring

20 Rubber, about, Bernie brought a big breakfast back to

b Buy, bird, bread Job, web, globe
able bed

21 Glasses, concert, It’s six or seven years since Sydney’s

s Sad, city, science Bus, place, class
lost sister sang that song
22 Zebras in zoos are like dolphins in
z Zoo, zero Lazy, easy, exact Size, wise, times
pools

23 Butter, until, Night, worked,

t Talk, train, twelve Betty bought a tub of butter
hated west

24 Address, advice, David’s daughter didn’t dance but

d Dog, dead, dream Third, food, mind
sudden David’s dad did

25 Frank found four frogs laughing on the

f Photo, fly, freeze Offer, selfish, gift Knife, stuff, laugh
floor

26 River, wives,
v Visa, voice, vote Wave, twelve, of Vera drove to Venice in a van
loved

27 School, soccer, The king cooked the carrots and the

k Keep, club, quick Milk, comic, ache
taxi queen cut the cake

28 Ghost, guess, Bigger, ago, Grandma gave the guests eggs and
g Dog, egg, league
green angry frog’s leg

29 Harry had a habit of helping hitch-

h Hair, ahead Head, perhaps Who, behave
hikers

30 We didn’t use Euros in Europe few

j Year, used Euro, few Cure, view
years ago

31 w Wage, what One, language Quick, square Wendy went away twice a week

32 Right, wrote, Carrot, sorry, Far away, war

r The rabbits raced right around the ring
rhyme dress and peace

33 Show, caller, Clara’s really clever but Lilly’s a little

l Leave, litre, life Fill, final, whistle
help silly

34 Smoke, jump, Comb, autumn,

m Miss, more, make Mum made me move my models
harmed film

35 Snow, dinner, Gone, open, There was no one on the moon on the
n Now, new, know
against listen ninth of June

36 Bang, bank, Thing, think, Young King Kong was stronger than
ŋ Sing, singer, sink
banks finger strong

37 Thank, think, Healthy, birthday, Earth, length, Martha Smith’s an author and an
ө
thought math fourth athlete

38 These, though, Other, weather, Breathe, with, My father and mother live together
ð
they clothes sunbath with my other brother

39 Chair, cheese, Kitchen, future, Rich, which, Which child put chalk on the teacher’s
tʃ
chicken question March chair

40 Job, general, Danger, agenda, Edge, age, Ginger spilt orange juice on George’s
ʤ
June object village jacket

Should, shirt, Fashion, nation, Wish, push, Sharon shouldn’t wash her shoes in
ʃ
sugar ocean English the shower