Exercises 1

I. Give the phonemic transcription of the following words: book, flat, house, this, that, monster, creep,
printer, screen, road, sign, literature, explain, dog, does, thick, jump, leap, rabbit, label, street, ravine,
sea, moon, planet, universe, what, when, why, which, who, where, whether, how, with, clock, team, time,
beach, ankle, avenue, slang, soon, deep, beautiful, interesting, music, happy, paradise, silver, cheap,
weep, party, noise, deal, dealer, busy, business, chain, sword, rifle, song, bird, bear, beer, Jock, Jay,
Jack, Jason, James, Job, Jessie, Jeff, Jerry, etc.

II. Give the phonemic transcription of the following text:

A gentleman, who was ill, used to take a very blacklooking medicine. One day his servant gave him some
ink by mistake. When he found out what he had done, he cried out in despair, “I beg your pardon, Sir, but
I have given you ink instead of your medicine”. “Oh, that doesn’t matter,” said the gentleman, “I’ll eat a
piece of blottingpaper to counteract it.”