Phonology Practice Test

/p/ vs /f/
Face Pace Suffer Supper Cuff Cup
Fill Pill Differ Dipper Chief Cheap
Fan Pan Laughable Lapable Cough Cop

Full Pull Chiefest Cheapest Chaff Chap

Flop Plop Refs Reps Beef Beep
Fast Past Coffer Copper Laugh Lap
Fair Pair Reefer Reaper Puff Pup
Fail Pail Coughs Cops Rife Ripe
File Pile Left Leapt Strife Stripe
 /b/ vs /v/
Ban Van Bat Vat
Beer Veer Boat Vote
Bowl Vole Serb serve
Gibbon Given Bale Veil
Bent Vent Bury Very
Bow Vow Bane Vein
Bolt Volt Dribble Drivel
Dub Dove Fiber Fiver
Lobes Loves Rebel Revel
Verb Verve Curb curve
 /iː/ vs /ɪ/
Blip Bleep Britches Breeches
Crick Creek Din Dean
Finned Fiend Flit Fleet
Gip Jeep Grist Greased
Pit Peat Sim Seam
Skit Skeet Slick Slit
Tick Teak Tizz Tease
Skim Scheme Till Teal
Skid Skied Piss Peace
Pip Peep Pill Peel
 /p/ vs /b/
Bay Pay Bear Pair
Bore Poor Bought Port
Banned Panned Bear Pear
Berry Perry Blade Played
Braise Praise Nutter Putter
Robe Rope Bare Pare
Bleed Plead Blot Plot
Board Pawed Breast Pressed
Rib Rip Bleat Pleat
Blunder Plunder Bier Peer
 /ð/ vs /d/
They Day Breath Breed
There Dare Though Dough
Bathe Bade Withdrawal Drawer
Grandmother Groomed Nonetheless Noodles
Thereby Derby Feather Faded
Within Wedding Rhythm riddance
Lather Ladder This Diss
Mother Mudder Writhe Ride
 /t/ vs /d
Tab Dab Tail Dale
Tamp Damp Tank Dank
Teed Deed Tier Deer
Till Dill Tine Dine
Tint Dint Titch tich
Ton Done Touch Dutch
Tongue Dung Toes Doze
Tough Duff Tower Dour
 /t/ vs /θ/
Thank Tank Death Debt
Thought Taught Both Boat
Thin Tin Through True
Thigh Tie Three Tree
Bat Bath Ten Tenth
Theme Team Thread Tread
Mathematics Mat Path Pat
 /s/ vs /ʃ/
Seat Sheet Sip Ship
Sell Shell Sail Shale
Sock Shock Sin Shin
Sun Shun Rust Rushed
Sort Short So Show
Sofa Chauffer Said Shed
Soar Shore
Stress & Intonation
Reading 1
• Please pass on my congratulations to the international marketing team for
the great campaign they initiated this year. I was extremely impressed with
the planning, application, and follow up procedures involved. Looking at the
sales figures, there is a strong indication that the campaign had an immediate
impact on our market penetration and brand image. Could we ask for a
better result?
Reading 2
• Hello, this is Dale Evans. I recently purchased one of your Techbrite kits for my
little son, the police station model? Unfortunately the kit didn’t come with an
instructions manual for putting the kit together. Now I’ve bought a few Techbrite
kits for him before and they’ve always had a full color building manual inside. I’ve
already tried to put the kit together myself just going by the photographs on the kit
box. But it’s almost impossible to get it fully right. Anyway, my son likes to put the
models together himself following along to the step by step guide in the manual.
This was his main birthday present this year so he’s pretty upset for not putting his
police station model together - sort of ruined the surprise for him, really. I hope
you’ll be able to do something about this as quickly as possible. Please call me back.
This is Dale Evans 324-6745.
Reading 3
• Have you been looking for a pie which is ready to serve right from the box,
but you want it to taste like its right from the oven? Then try Betty’s Pot Pies.
Nothing could be easier. Just remove from the box and heat it in the oven for
5 minutes. Soon you’ll have a sweet and tasty pie ready to melt in your
mouth. It’s sure to have your guests asking for seconds.