PRONUNCIATION PRACTICE

UNIT 9

CONSONANT SOUNDS: [t] [d] [θ] AND [ð]

Letters Sounds Examples

t [t] task, tell, time, tone, tune, hotel, attentive, student, boat,
rest
d [d] day, dear, die, door, duty, admire, hidden, lady, kind, ride,
ended
th [θ] thank, thick, think, thought, thunder, author, breath, bath;
th [ð] this, that, then, though, father, brother, breathe, bathe

I. Sound [ t ]

Beginning
teeth table teacher's aide
tire taken teddy bear
toast talent teenager
toy teacher telephone
teacher teamwork tennis ball
two tennis tennis court
toad Texas tennis shoes
tiger ticket terrific
turkey tiny together
taco tired tomorrow
tool tissue tornado
tooth toaster tortilla
toe today typical
talk toilet table tennis
towel tonight tape recorder
turtle toothpaste telephone book
team towel telephone booth
take T-shirt telephone pole
tall turkey television
taste turtle temperature
tub tablecloth territory
touch talented technicality
top talkative tuberculosis
tongue tangerine
time teachable

Middle
button mittens rotten
guitar potato hotel
kitten eighteen cotton
motel lettuce baby sitter
beauty photos beauty salon
better pretty boating safety
city sweater calculator
butter written competitor
little attitude educator
butterfly beautiful elevator
tomatoe bike safety escalator
biting bus saftety peanut butter
Saturday huttonhole potato chips
Water computer thermometer
batter cottage cheese United States
beauty excited vegetables
better fairy tale vitamin C
brighter forgotten walking safety
Britain hospital water safety
butter hot water denominator
button invited deteriorate
cheetah Jupiter hippopotamus
daughter photograph hot water bottle
eating potato hot water heater
guitar Saturday potato salad
heater talkative refrigerator
hotel tomato saltwater taffy
hotter visitor
kitten alligator

Ending
bat hot quiet
boat hat rabbit
cat wet toilet
fruit white accurate
goat about alphabet
hat basket apricot
coat Boy Scout astronaut
light bracelet calculate
nut closet celebrate
chocolate concrete chocolate
eat create coconut
bite delete cookie sheet
cut exit cowboy boot
cute flashlight educate
feet forget hibernate
get grapefruit incomplete
sit jacket laundromat
right minute parking lot
not parrot riverboat
late peanut roller skate
kite pocket substitute
thermostat cooperate supermarket
violet Easter basket unfortunate
accelerate refrigerate
accumulate shopping basket

II. Sound [ d ]
Beginning
dad decide dinosaur
dark defend diploma
day demand disconnect
dime denim dishwasher
do dentist document
done deny dog collar
dust design duplicate
dot dessert dandelion
dive dinner definition
dance doctor democracy
desk doghouse demolition
dish dollar destination
dog doorbell diagnosis
doll doughnut diagonal
duck dozen dictionary
door duckling difficulty
dentist dangerous directory
doctor decided disadvantage
dinner decorate discriminate
down deep fryer dyslexia
dig Delaware deteriorate
dove delicate disability
dear demanding disagreeable
does demonstrate disciplinary
date deposit dissatisfaction
daisy desperate disorganization
dancer dialect disorientation
danger diary disqualification
daughter different

Middle
medicine kindergarten Tuesday
ladder birthday louder
radio riding hidden
reading Thursday hiding
wedding baby doll speeding
lady calendar bedding
spider Canada birthday
daddy idea bleeding
feeding ready body
body shadow cider
daddy baby doll somebody
dead end Bermuda spider web
feeding Canada video
headache cheddar cheese anybody
hidden cheerleaders auditory
hot dog comedy avocado
ladder Father's Day Cambodia
lady Florida Colorado
pudding honeydew North Dakota
reading Idaho riding safety
ready medicine scuba diver
spider Mother's Day scuba diving
Sweden nobody South Dakota
Thursday radio video game
Wednesday soda pop

Ending
food red zip code
hand played accepted
mud side attitude
bed afraid brotherhood
sand ahead centipede
add bedspread chicken feed
bad beside Chinese food
bread crowded copperhead
did decade expected
dad decide fishing rod
cried divide gingerbread
glad dog food Hollywood
grade firewood lemonade
good first aid neighborhood
hide inside pony ride
kid instead talented
loud junk food teacher's aide
mad outside tossed salad
read railroad united
wood salad visited
sad seafood water bed
ride succeed

III. Sound [ θ ]
Beginning
thorn thermometer three
thin theater thick
think thermos thumb
thunder thaw thigh
thousand thing third
thirsty thread thank you
thief thoughtful thirty
thirteen thistle thickener
therapy thorny thinkable
Thursday thoughtful thinking cap
Thimble thousand third baseman
thankful thumbtack thirty one - thirty eight
thankless thunder thoroughly
thank you Thursday thunderbird
theme song thankfulness thundercloud
thermal thanksgiving thunderstorm
thicken thank you card Thanksgiving Day
thickness thank you note theatrical
thimble theater therapeutic
thinking theory thermometer
thinner therapist thundershower
third base therapy theologian
thirteen thermostat thermodynamic
thirty thesaurus

Middle
bathtub nothing sympathy
toothache pathway thirty third
toothbrush rethink tooth fairy
python something youth soccer
marathon southeast arithmetic
healthy southward athletic club
truthful toothache authority
wealthy toothbrush group therapy
athlete truthful hypothesis
bathrobe youthful hypothetic
panther anything mathematics
toothpaste athletic mythology
birthday authentic pathologist
something authorize play therapy
pathway authorship South Africa
toothpick bath towel South Dakota
athlete bath water South Korea
author breath taking South Pacific
bathmat coauthor sympathetic
bathtub empathy amphitheater
breathless everything anesthesia
ethics marathon authenticity
fifth grade math homework South America
method pathetic South Carolina
misthink stethoscope
mouthwash sympathize
 Ending
cloth south baby's breath
moth oath baby teeth
math both bubble bath
tooth eighth chicken broth
fifth bear with eightieth
beneath beneath fiftieth
path bike path fortieth
month birdbath ninetieth
wreath blacksmith silversmith
booth dishcloth sixtieth
broth dog tooth tablecloth
ninth goldsmith thirtieth
tenth hot bath twentieth
breath locksmith undergrowth
bath mammoth underneath
earth phone booth wisdom teeth
mouth steam bath Elizabeth
teeth sweet tooth seventieth
youth toll booth telephone booth
north untruth
strength aftermath

IV. Sound [ ð ]

Beginning
that those therein
than though thereof
the themselves thereon
they therefore thereto
their thee therewith
them thy thyself
these thou thereabout
they’d therein thereafter
they’ll themselves thereunder
they’re thenceforth thereupon
they’ve thereby
this therefore

Middle
feather brother rather
weather weatherman soothing
together either smoothest
bathing gather leather
father other tether
mother worthy although
clothing another bathing
breathing other bothersome
brother rhythm brotherly
clothing slither fatherly
either southern Father's Day
father teething gathering
feather weather grandfather
gather withdraw grandmother
leather withstand motherhood
mother another motherly
neither bathing suit Mother's Day
otherwise
stepbrother
stepfather
stepmother
tetherball
together
weatherman
weatherproof
altogether
brother-in-law
chicken feathers
eagle feather
father-in-law
Father's Day card
leather jacket
mother-in-law
Mother's Day card
shaving lather
stormy weather
togetherness
weather report
weather station
weather woman
 Ending

breathe
lathe
seethe
scathe
teethe
bathe
hath
loathe
sun bathe