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Exercise 1: Drawing the cardinal vowel chart and indicating on it the correct places for the

following English vowels:

1- // 2- // 3- // 4- //

Diagram: Some Pure Vowels Represented in the Cardinal Vowel Quadrilateral Chart

Exercise 2: Writing the phonetic symbols for the vowels in the following words:

1- Bread / 2- Good // 3- Food //

4- Rough / 5- Won /6- Could //

7- Through // 8- Maths //

Exercise 3: Illustrating the opposition // and // with five minimal pairs:

1- Fat Feet

2- Man Mean

3- Sat Seat

4- Hat Heat

5- Pal Peel

CORRECTON OF THE FIRST TERM PHONETICS EXAM

Close

Mid-open

Mid-close

Open

Front Centre Back

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(2 pts)

0.5 pts For each vowel

(4 pts)

0.5 pts For each symbol

(5 pts)

1 pts For each correct pair

English Department

DRAFT

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Exercise 4: classifying the words according to their pronunciation (in the next table):

Piece, quality, minute, said, head, build, plan, sun, fun, what.

// // // // // // Piece Minute Said Plan Fun Quality

Build Head Sun What

Exercise 5: identifying the vowel sounds in each example (writing the symbol of

the vowel identified between slashes)

What / / this short vowel is articulated with the back of the tongue is in the fully open

position. The lips are slightly rounded.

Cut / / this short vowel is articulated with the centre of the tongue is raised above the open

position. The is no contact between the tongue and the upper molars.

Sport / / this long vowel is articulated with the back of the tongue. The tongue is raised

between the mid-close and the mid-open positions. The lips are in a medium lip-rounding.

(4 pts)

(5 pts)

0.5 pts For each correct word

English Department

DRAFT

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