Pronunciation – Monothongs

Sound Spelling Example

ee, ea see agree eat seat team
ie field piece
e these metre secret evening equal Peter museum
/i:/ European Chinese Japanese complete
ey key
i ski kilo littre pizza police machine magazine
eo people
i if listen miss dinner swim
/ɪ/ other busy business building system
oo, ou, oe, ue too group shoe blue
other two fruit juice
/u:/
/ju:/ in u, ew music new
u, oo, ou full sugar book foot would
/ʊ/ other woman
a after afternoon ask answer bath bathroom can’t
class dance fast father glass tomato
/ɑ:/ ar bar car card far park star start
other aunt laugh heart half
bus colour come cup front London luck Monday
month mother much nothing number run study
/ʌ/ u, o
sun uncle under
one
o bottle box chocolate clock coffee copy cost cross
doctor dog gone got holiday hospital hot job
lock long lost lot not off often possible shop
/ɒ/ song sorry stop top wrong
a quality want wash wasn’t watch what
cough
a, al all ball call fall tall wall water talk walk
au autumn
aw saw
augh caught daughter taught
ough bought thought
/ɔ:/ ar quarter warm
or born corner forty horse short sort
oor door floor
ore before more
our four
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e check leg letter red sentence

ea bread head read (past tense)
/e/ ie friend
a any many
ai again said
/ᴂ/ a back camera factory hat jam manager map plan traffic
ir bird first birthday circle thirsty
or world work world worse worst
ur turn Thursday
/ɜ:/ our journey
ear early earth heard learn
er service Germany prefer dessert weren’t verb university
Pronunciation – Monothongs

Sound Spelling Example

p pen push stop
/p/ pp happy stopping
► psycholosy cupboard /’kʌbəd/
b, bb big best rob robber verb
/b/
► climb comb thumb bomb
t tea till ten top two twenty water bit
complete eat eight light suit
tt better bottle
/t/
ed (past tense) stopped washed
/tʰ/ in th Thailand Thames Thomas
► listen fasten castle
d day deep do door did food good head ready
/d/
dd add address ladder middle
c car cat careful clean close colour fact
k keep key kind kitchen desk like talk walk
ck back black check pocket tick
/k/ ch school stomach chemist architect
/kw/ in qu quick quiet quarter
/ks/ in x fax six taxi
► know knee knife
g, gg garden girl glass go gold ago hungry bag
/g/ leg egg bigger
► foreigner sign high bought sing
f feel first café after leaf
ff off coffee
/f/ ph phone autograph
gh laugh
► of
/v/ v very travel every have leave
thin thanks thirty theatre thumb Thursday thirsty
/ɵ/ th
three both month north south birthday
this that these those then they father mother brother
/ð/ th
other together weather without breathe with
s sit sister bus
ss class glasses
/s/ c city circle pencil place police pronounce
sc science scissors
/ks/ in x six next
s gives sisters easy husband roses
z zoo zero size
/z/ ss scissors
zz jazz
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sh shop fashion cash fresh wash mushroom

c ocean
ch machine
/ʃ/ ci delicious special
s sugar sure
ss Russia
ti international
/ʒ/ si, s (not many) television Asia usually
ch chips choose March which
t future question
/ʧ/
tch catch watch kitchen
► Czech /tʃek/
j jam jacket jeans job jet
g general
/ʤ/
ge age large
dge fridge
m me more lemon swim film some sometimes
mm summer
/m/
mb comb
mn autumn
n new now sun one gone
/n/ nn dinner sunny
kn knew know knife
ng evening long sing singer thing
/ŋ/ /ŋk/ in nk bank thanks think uncle
/ŋg/ in ng angry finger hungry longer single
h hat here help hot how behind
/h/ wh who whose whole
► hour honest
l learn leave language lovely alone feel help English
ll tall well yellow
/l/
le (end of word) people simple uncle little
► half talk could
r red ready really right road room
/r/ rr ferry sorry
wr wrap wrist write written wrote
w, wh week wet way warm well weather windy away
always twelve swim what white which where
/w/
other one language question quiet square
► answer two who write wrong
y yes yesterday year young
/j/ /ju:/ usual student university new view interview
beautiful queue ► Europe /jʊərəp/