PRONUNCIATION

An Overview
What is pronunciation?
It is the way in which a language or a particular word or
sound is pronounced

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 Contents
✘ IPA

✘ Letters and sounds

 Vowels
 Consonants

✘ Spelling patterns

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 1.

IPA
IPA is the INTERNATIONAL PHONETIC ALPHABET
It is a system for representing phonetic sounds with symbols
=> It helps us to pronounce a word correctly.

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 FOR EXAMPLE:
NEW WORD: LAMB

Look up in the dictionary:

 Definition: a baby sheep

 IPA transcription: /læm/

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How many
letters are
there in
English?

26
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 5 Vowels A,e,u,i,o

26 letters
21
The rest
Consonants

How many sounds are there in English?

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 26
letters

44
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sounds
 2. Letters and sounds
 26 letters in English alphabet
 5 vowels
 21 consonants

 44 sounds
 20 vowel sounds
 24 consonant sounds
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 12
Monothongs
 5 long vowels
 7 short vowels

8
diphthongs
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 24

consonant sounds:

 9 voiceless sounds

 15 voiced sounds

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 Vowel sounds
How to pronounce vowels

How high or low the

Tongue height
tongue is

The tongue is in the

Place of the tongue front or back of the
mouth

The lips are rounded

The lips
or not

The jaw is close or

The jaw
open

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 CONSONANT SOUNDS

How to pronounce consonants

✘ Voicing (Vibration in the

glottis)

✘ Place of articulators (The

tongue, lips…)

✘ Manner of articulators
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 Vowel sounds vs Consonant sounds

✘ Consonant sounds: obstruction of

airflow in vocal tract
✘ Vowel sounds: little to no obstruction
of airflow in vocal tract
For example:
/ð/ /u:/
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 3.Spelling patterns
Spelling Sound
 Same spelling – Different sound:
 Food – Door
 Read - Read (past tense)
 Different spelling – Same sound:
 June – Group
 No – 16Know
Practice

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Write down the number of letters and sounds

Words Transcription Letters Sounds

Group /gru:p/ 5 4
Drink /drɪŋk/ 5 5
Heavy /ˈhevi/
5 4
Handsome /ˈhænsəm/
8 6
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Thank you and Goodbye