INTERNATIONAL PHONETIC ALPHABETReview and Activity

American English Vowel Sounds

j I a ɔeat gift ask law

meat fish swam daughter

sheep ship father caught

beat bit hot saw

heap hip harm ball

American English Vowel Sounds

ɛ  æ ʌ ə

head have nothing and

hell bat crush about

said sand son announce

death mass hungry vacation

edge bad love sofa

ʊ ɜ u

pull bird blue

book word soup

wood worm true

cook turn shoot

took person pool

American English Vowel Sounds

American English Diphthong Sounds

ɑʊ oʊ ɔɪ ɑɪ eɪ jubrow drone oil mine eight cute

house hole destroy height wave refuse

south don‘t appoint trifle bathe beauty

now though foyer buy lady huge

out coat noise die crazy stupid

Word comparisons – i and ɪ

i ɪ i ɪ ɪ ideep dip eat it busy leaderseek sick sweet

sixteensing sleepily

meal mill steel mill swift eagle

feel fill reach it timid and weak

leak lick seek the sick

quick reading

heat hit leave the ship

sit on the seat

Sentence comparisons1. I will take a dip in the deep pool.2. He seeks the doctor for his sick

child.3. I will leave you to live as you wish.4. He buried his pick on the peak.5. He saw sheep on the ship.

Word comparisons – ɛ and ɪ

ɛ ɪ ɛ ɪ ɪ ɛhead hid well written hit his headred rid elder sister liberty or

deathcheck chick jealous

womensilly gesture

desk disk pleasant trip ring the bellbed bid energy and

vigorcheerful red

well will merry christmas

serious Betty

Sentence comparisons1. Get rid of that red dress.2. Tell him to wait till I come.3. He hid his head in shame.4. I think he will get well soon.5. He counted ten tins on the shelf.

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eɪ ɪ eɪ ɛpain pin mate metsale sill paste pestsane sin date debt

bail bill chaste chestfail Fill gate getfate fit taste test

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æ ɛ æ eɪbad bed plaque plaguebag beg statue stadiumsand send cashier casing

rack wreck chasm chaosthan then natural natureband bend fashion facial

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u ʊ u juloot look food feudtool took ooze use

shoot shook rude muse

cool cook clue newwho‘d hood moo mewstool stood moot cube

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oʊ ɑʊ ɔ uoat out tall toolfoal foul fall foolcoal cowl Paul pullhole howl sought sootdon‘t down call coolknow now ball bull

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ʌ a ʌ uhut hot sun soongun gone skull school

pump pomp cull coolstuck stock bust boostshut shot rut root

nothing progress supper super

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ʌ ɔ æ ʌfront fraught man huntcover coffer half dozenother author stand up

custom caustic fast busbutton bought

thembad study

front door happy lucky

ɜ ɛ ɜ ɪlearned lend bird beardperson peasant stir steerkernel kennel fir fear

ɜ ɔ ɜ aworm warm fur farword ward burn barn

courage cordage curt cart

ai eɪ ɪ aimine main kit kitefine feign fill filedie day limb climb

civil rights aim highcity lights strange silence

different height famous writerwitness the crime crazy miser

Phrase comparisongirl friendpersonal attentionemergency sessionsermon at tenlearn his lesson

deputy clerkpleasant personget up earlyled the searchahead of the herd

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church yardhurt armcurtain rodurgent knock

smart nurseheart murmurscarlet turbancharged with murder

work indoorsattorney at lawworship the Lordworth a fortune

short wordslong journeycourt’s adjournedall the world

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food tuberude pupilfoolish feudwounded fugitive

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launching towerhaunted houseAugust showercall a foul

cautious groupgaunt youthraw recruitawful truth

open housego southclosing outbold scoundrel

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cold warlow ballbroken jawso longdon’t falllaunching tower

haunted houseAugust showercall a foul

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full moongood foodfoot loosecooked soupwooden stool

bend the bandbeg for the bagred hatseven matsheavy hand

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