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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