Bach 2 PHONETICS Vowels

PHONETICS
PRONUNCIATION OF VOWELS:
/ i: / -ee: tree, sweet, feel, seeks, cheese, leek

-ea: meat, heat, bean, lead, seat, reach, season, leap
-ie: believe, chief, field, piece, siege, frieze
-ei: receive, seize,
-ey: key
-i: machine, police, prestige
-e: be, these, complete, even
-others: quay, people
/ɪ/ -i: ship, grin, bit, fish, chips, fill, bin, lid, sit, six, big, it, ill
-y: city, pretty, sympathy, mystery, symphony, pyramid
-ie: ladies, bodies, armies, sieve
-e: receive, pocket, wanted, decided, riches
-u: busy, minute, business
-irregulars: private, village, coffee, Sunday, women,
 PAIRS / i: / / ɪ /
feet – fit eat – it steal – still read - rid

sheep – ship leave – live leap – lip seen - sin
green – grin cheap – chip seat – sit least - list
/e/ -e: pen, men, ten, fell, Ben, led, set, sex
-ea: bread, breast, breakfast
-irregulars: many, any, friend, bury, again, Thames, ate
/æ/ -a: man, cat, sat, thanks, pan, bad, match, bat, mash, sacks, hat, dam
 PAIRS /e/ /æ /
met – mat set – sat expend – expand

ten – tan bet – bat pen – pan men - man
ketch – catch bend – band wreck - rack
/ʌ / -u: cup, mud, nut, but, sun, gun, jump, cut

-o: mother, month, come, Monday, lovely
-ou: enough, young, cousin
-irregular: blood, flood, does, doesn’t
 PAIRS / æ / /ʌ/
match – much lamp – lump bad – bud hat – hut

cat – cut stamp – stump batter – butter mash – mush
bang – bung cap – cup ban - bun
1
/a: / -ar: arm, park, car, barks, card, darn, cart, lark, farm, part
-ast: past, last
-ass: glass, class
-al: half, calf, palm, calm
-ear: heart
-au: laugh, aunt
-ant. can’t, plant
-er: clerk, sergeant, derby
 PAIRS /æ / /a: /
cat – cart bat – bart hat – heart had - hard

pat – part at – art match – march am – arm
massed – mast lad – lard ant – aunt pack - park
/ɒ/ -o: hot, rock, doctor, dog, bother, fog, gone

-wa: was, swan, what, yacht, want, watch
-au: because, August, Austria, sausage, Australia
-ou / ow: cough, knowledge
-qua: quality
/ɔː/ -aw: saw, raw, law, dawn, yawn, crawl

-or: fork, horse, forty, pork, lord, ford, short
-all: tall, fall, all, wall, ball
-al + consonant: almost, although, alter, bald, talk, walk
-au: fault, daughter, cause
-ou: thought, bought, brought, fought
-war: wardrobe, war, warm, dwarf
-our: four, court, pour
-oor: door, floor
-oar: board, oar
-irregular: broad, George
 PAIRS / ɒ / / ɑː/
pot – port spot – sport fox - forks

shot – short cot - caught
 TRIO / ɑː / / ɒ / / ɔː/
cart – cot - caught card – cod – cord part – pot – port

hark - hock – hawk darn – Don – dawn stark – stock – stalk
barn – Bonn – born tart – tot - taught
/ʊ/ -oo: good, book, foot, soot, wool, wood, rook

-u: full, pull, push, put, butcher, bush, cushion
-ou: would, could, should
-o: woman, wolf
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/u:/ -oo: boot, soon, moon, too, tooth, fool, spoon, food
-u: rule, June, rude
-ou: you, group, soup, through, youth
-ue: blue, true, argue, queue
-ui: fruit, suit, juice
-o: who, whose, do, move, two, lose
-ew: new, few, view, chew * /ju:/
-irregulars: shoe, beautiful, two
 PAIRS /ʊ / /u: /
full – fool soot – suit should – shooed

pull – pool wood – wooed could - cooed
/ ɜː / -ir: bird, girl, first, skirt, shirt

-ur: curly, church, curse, purse, curl
-ear: search, early, learn, earth, heard
-our: journey
-wor: world, work, word
-er: her, serve, term, person, fern
/ə/ Weak sound:

-a, e, i, o, u, in unstressed position:
vegetable, television, amateur, doctor, telephone, animal, generous,
famous, forward, commerce
-palabras cortas: a, the, to, and (si no va acentuada)
-palabras acentuadas en la 2ª sílaba, tienen este sonido en la 1ª sílaba:
alive, away, among, above, alarm
-palabras de 2 ó más sílabas que terminan en “or”, “er”, “ure”, “our” tienen este sonido en la
última sílaba que no está acentuada
better, calculator, colour, furniture, measure
DIPHTHONGS
/eɪ / -a+consonante+e: fade, space, make, late, plate

-a: lady, tasty, bass
-ei o ey: eight, veil, they, grey
-ai o ay: aim, rain, day, bay, plain, play, Spain, main
-ea: steak, break
The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain
/aɪ / -i+consonante+e: time, ripe, bite, kite, dine, Mike, write, nice
-igh / eigh: high, light, height, fright, might, flight, right
-ie: lie, die, pie, tried, fried
-y: by, dry, cry, try, fly, my
-others: either, ice, I’m, I’ve, item, eye
I’ve got a fly in my right eye
3
/ɒɪ / -oi: noise, voice, boil, coil, foil, coin, oil, choice, point
-oy: boy, coy, toy, joy, employ, annoy, oyster, enjoy
The boy enjoyed his noisy toy
/ əʊ / -o: so, over, go, won’t, no

-o+consonante+e: home, hope, stone, bone, stoke, joke, tone, rose
-oa: road, Joan, loan, load, coat, boat, coast, oath, oats
-oe: hoe, toe
-ou: though,
-ow: show, know, slow, stow, owning, low, throw, grow, own
-ew: sew
/aʊ / -ou: mouse, house, proud, round, out, mountain, shout, ground, mouth, round
-ow: cow, town, crowd, owl, brown, foul
Make your own mouth round when you say this
/ɪə / -eer: deer, cheer, beer, peer

-ear: fear, dear, tear, beard, clear, nearly, hear, ear, near, year
-ere: here,
-ea: idea
-ier: pierce, fierce
He’s had a beard for nearly a year
/eə / -air: chair, pair, air, fair, hair, stairs

-are: dare, care, spare, snare, stare, share
-ear: wear, tear, bear, swear, pear
She can’t bear to share her pear
/ʊə / -oor: poor, boor, moor,

-our: tour, gourd
-ure: sure
-ue: fluency, fuel
-ua: dual, manually
* / jʊə / -ure: cure, pure, endure

-ur: during, curious, furious
-ewe: fewer, ewer, skewer
TRIPHTHONGS
/ eɪə / player, prayer

/ ɒɪə / royal, employer, lawyer
/aʊə / towel, tower, hour, shower, bowel, our, power, flower
/əʊə / lower, slower
/aɪə / fire, higher, liar

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/ i: / -ee: tree, sweet, feel, seeks, cheese, leek

feet – fit eat – it steal – still read - rid

met – mat set – sat expend – expand

/ʌ / -u: cup, mud, nut, but, sun, gun, jump, cut

match – much lamp – lump bad – bud hat – hut

cat – cart bat – bart hat – heart had - hard

/ɒ/ -o: hot, rock, doctor, dog, bother, fog, gone

/ɔː/ -aw: saw, raw, law, dawn, yawn, crawl

pot – port spot – sport fox - forks

cart – cot - caught card – cod – cord part – pot – port

/ʊ/ -oo: good, book, foot, soot, wool, wood, rook

full – fool soot – suit should – shooed

/ ɜː / -ir: bird, girl, first, skirt, shirt

/ə/ Weak sound:

/eɪ / -a+consonante+e: fade, space, make, late, plate

The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain

I’ve got a fly in my right eye

The boy enjoyed his noisy toy

/ əʊ / -o: so, over, go, won’t, no

Make your own mouth round when you say this

/ɪə / -eer: deer, cheer, beer, peer

He’s had a beard for nearly a year

/eə / -air: chair, pair, air, fair, hair, stairs

She can’t bear to share her pear

/ʊə / -oor: poor, boor, moor,

* / jʊə / -ure: cure, pure, endure

/ eɪə / player, prayer

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