Institut Supérieur des Langues de Tunis Teacher : Ghozzi.

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1st year Phonetics
Introduction: Exercises

1. Write the phonemic symbol that corresponds to each of the following phonetic
descriptions, then give an English word that contains this sound.
Example: voiced alveolar stop /d/ dough

A. Voiceless bilabial stop (= plosive) /…../ ………..

B. Voiced Lateral alveolar /……. / …….
C. Voiced velar nasal /……. / …….
D. Voiced interdental fricative /……/……..
E. Voiceless palato-alveolar affricate /……/……..
F. Voiceless glottal fricative /……/……..
G. Voiced Palatal glide /……/ ……….
H. Low front vowel /…../ ………
I. Mid front vowel /……. / ……..
J. High back long vowel /……/………

2. Write the phonetic symbol for the first sound in each of the following words.

Example: ooze /u:/ psycho /s/

write advantage counter

mnemonic variety accent
philosophy standard post
read still cheat

3. Provide the appropriate phonemic symbols for the underlined sounds.

bug: /..…/ pray:/…../ Could : /.…./ good: /.…./ certain: /…../

laugh: /..…/ pave: /……/ cloth: /..… / Bathe: /...../ design: /…../

Stay: /..…/ draw: /…../ house: /..… / rush: /…../ Asia: /…../

chips : /…../ czech : /…../ strange /…../

business: /…../ week: /…../ moon: /…../ good : /…../

police : /…../ western : /…../ average: /…../ purchased : /…../

learn : /…../ Research : /…../ myrtle : /…../ bury : /…../

black : /…../ Africa: /…../ part : /…../ palm: /..…/ son : /…../ fun: /.…./
dog : /…../ want: /….. / talk : /…../ worn: /…../ raw: /...../

Tour : /…../ away : /…../ enjoy : /…../ sky : /…../ now : /…../
telephone : /…../ here : /…../ wear : /…../ Asia : /…../
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4. Circle the word with /u: / sound.

Food four June look spoon sugar two

News room soup school town Tuesday

5. Circle the words with /u/ sound.

Book Cookery cough could good through

looking lunch soon sugar thought
6. Circle all the /i:/ sounds and underline all the /I/ sounds.
Big busy dinner green listen meet give
office people please repeat six tea three
7. Put the words below in the correct line according to the vowel sound they contain:
blood, caught, circle, forced, four, furry, further, herd, horse, , mercy, mortal, occurred,
pall, secular, sturdy, summon, swell, urban, word

/ɜː/ ………………………………………………………………………………………….

/ʌ/ …………………………………………………………………………………………..

/e/ …………………………………………………………………………………………..

/ɔ:/ ………………………………………………………………………………………….

8. Divide the names of body parts according the sound you pronounce /æ/ or /e/:
head, chest, back, abdomen, leg, ankle, instep, elbow

/æ/: ……………………………………………………………………………………………
/e/: ……………………………………………………………………………………………

9. Look at the vowel sounds marked and put the words into the correct columns.
Divorce – court – couple – intolerable – become – home – about - emotion-circumstances - dishonest –
however – front – common – husband - important-broken – flowers – hurt – grown – courage – cause –
conservative – personality – suffer- pearl-sociology

/ɒ/ /ʌ/ /ɜː/ /ɔː/ /əʊ / / aʊ/

Common divorce
Institut Supérieur des Langues de Tunis Teacher : Ghozzi.R
1st year Phonetics