American English

( Tense and Lax Vowels )

1. BIT OR BEAT ?

TENSE bead,beat
LAX bit,bid

Exercise :

Tense Vowels Lax Vowels

1. beat bead bit bid
2.
3.
seat
heat
seed
he’d
sit
hit
Sid
hid

4. Pete leave pit fin
5. feet feed fit his

6. niece knees miss did
7. deep he’s hiss live Tongue Twister Exercise
8. neat deed disk lift
9. leaf need knit Ms. ( the ohh [ u ]sound )

“A true fool will choose to

drool in a pool to stay
Exercise 2 : cool. Who knew that such
fools were in schools,
Tense Lax
used tools, and flew
1. eat it I eat it. balloons? Lou knew and
2. beat bit The beat is a bit strong. now you do, too”
3. keys kiss Give me a kiss for the keys.
4.
5.
cheek
deed
chick
did
The chick’s cheek is soft.
He did a good deed today.

6. feet fit These shoes fit my feet.
7. feel fill Do you feel that we should fill the glass with water?
8. heat hit Put your heel on the hill.
9. leap lip He bumped his lip when he leaped.
10. peel pill Don’t peel that pill!
11. sheep ship There are sheep on the ship.
12. sleep slip The girl sleeps in a slip.
13. these this These are better the this one.