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    This document discusses the English monophthongs /ɪ/ and /i:/. It provides lists of words containing each sound and guidelines for pronunciation. Examples are given to demonstrate the different spellings that can represent each monophthong. A classwork exercise is included that asks students to write the sound for underlined letters in example words.

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    ORAL ENGLISH

    THE MONOPHTHONGS /ɪ/ and /i:/


    The Monophthong /ɪ/
    • a: village, wastage, orange, luggage, language, manage, image,
    private, tentacle

    • e: college, knowledge, rocket, vehicle, bucket, women, excuse (noun),


    epitome

    • oe: oedema, oesophagus

    • i: fish, king, divorce, pivot, children, witch, diffuse, digest, citrus, bigot

    • u: lettuce, busy, business, minute (noun)


    The Monophthong /i/ Cont’d.
    • ui: guinea, guitar, biscuit, guild, build

    • ia/ai: plantain, captain, marriage

    • eo: pigeon

    • ei/ie: counterfeit, sieve

    • y: mystic, rhythm, symbol, myriad, tyranny, hysterical, cyst,


    mesophyll, sycophant
    The Monophthong /i:/
    • e: regal, penis, renal, femur, these, legal, theme, vehicle

    • ea:bean, stream, beam, read, meat, seat, wreak, cleavage

    • ee:absentee, feet, bleed, seem, meet

    • ey:key

    • uay: quay

    • ei: deceive, perceive, conceive, deceit, seize, receive (‘ei’ when it comes after ‘c’ )
    The Monophthong /i:/ Cont’d.
    • ie: besiege, fief, believe, brief, niece, fiend, mien

    • i: machine, police, chlorine, magazine, motif, suite, imbecile, precis

    • oe: foetus, phoenix, amoeba

    • eo: people

    • ae:anaemic, leukaemia, paediatrics, minutiae, larvae, aeon


    CLASSWORK
    • Write the sound of the underlined letter(s) in each word.
     
    Example: kick /ɪ/ and /i:/
    1. Theme
    2. Wreak
    3. Seize
    4. Quay
    5. Guilty
    6. Machine
    7. Manage
    8. Bucket
    9. Witch
    10. Rhythm

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