STUDY SHEET

REMEMBERING SOME TOPICS

 Answer the following questions

1. A) What is language?
2. B) Which are the language features?
3. C) Explain the speech communication process (The Speech Chain)
4. D) What is Phonetics? Describe its branches.
5. E) What is Phonology?
6. F) What do we mean by IPA?
7. G) Speech Mechanism: name the organs involved in the speech process (articulators).
8. H) What is a vowel sound?
9. I) Vowel sounds can be classified into three different categories. Which ones?
10. F) What is Schwa sound?
11. G) Classify the vowel sounds in a chart (long and short vowel sounds)
12. H) What is a diphthong?

REVIEWING VOWEL SOUNDS

 Look at some more examples:

 
  Now, let´s practise!!! ( You will need your Pronunciation Dictionary)
 Short Vowel Sounds:

 Classify the words below according to their vowel sounds:

map – hand – cut – full - come – ill – bet - cat – men – sun – in – less – not – done – book - bag –
kiss – bus – ten - run

 Long Vowel Sounds:

 Classify the words below according to their vowel sounds:

car – door – shirt – far - earth – caught - world – arm – seize – learn – fought - feel – bored - boot -
bought – bean – see – scene – more – girl – eagle

 Time to transcribe!!!
 Transcribe the following words using your dictionary ( they all contain vowel sounds you
have been studying)
 MINIMAL PAIRS

/ i:/

sheep, feet, beat, seat, neat, reach, Pete, Jean, cheap, seeks, least, he’ll, field, meal, eel, ease,
each, peach, leaver, reason

/ɪ /

ship, fit, bit, sit, knit, rich, pit, gin, chip, six, list, hill, filled, mil, ill, is, itch, pitch, liver, risen

/æ/

cat, hat, cap, lack, sack, batter, ran, bank, track, stack, snag, bag, dam, sank, drank, ankle, rag,
cab

/ʌ/

cut, hut, cup, luck, suck, butter, run, bunk, truck, stuck, snug, bun, dumb, sunk, drunk, uncle, rug,
cub

/ʊ/

pull, pulled, wood, would, should, could, full, soot, hood, look,

/u:/

poo, pooled, wooed, shoed, cooed, fool, suit, who’d, Luke

/e/

Bet, bed, head, ten, hell, Ben, edge, nest, Ted, bled, held, weld, west, best, well, end, spend

/ɜ:/
Bert, bird, heard, turn, hurl, burn, urge, nursed, turd, blurred, hurled, world, worst, burst, whirl,
earned, spurned

/ɔ:/

Four, court, all, pore, form, chord, sport, whore, torn, or, walk, thawed, horse, short, warm, hoard,
bored.