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    This document provides a list of construction-related terms for students to learn, along with guidance on pronunciation. It includes 30 terms organized into categories like types of roofs, flooring materials, and plumbing elements. The document instructs students to listen to audio recordings of the terms and repeat them. It highlights 16 terms and provides phonetic transcriptions to help students focus on pronouncing tricky sounds correctly. The goal is for students to become familiar with both the meaning and pronunciation of important industry terminology.

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    TERMS MODULE 5

    A. List of terms to learn:

    1. Concrete bed
    2. Damp-proof membrane
    3. Deck
    4. Drainage and waste
    5. Eave
    6. Fiber-glass floor insulation
    7. Finish floor
    8. Fittings /fixtures
    9. Flat roof
    10. Floating floor
    11. Floor (1) & (2)
    12. Floor slab
    13. Gable roof
    14. Gutter
    15. Hardwood
    16. Hipped roof (syn. hip roof)
    17. Pitched roof
    18. Plumbing system
    19. Plywood
    20. Raised floor
    21. Ridge
    22. Roof
    23. Services
    24. Shed roof
    25. Solid floor
    26. Subfloor (syn: blind floor, rough floor)
    27. Suspended floor
    28. Thermal and acoustic insulation
    29. Tile
    30. Utility

    B. Listen to the audio of each term. Repeat each term after you hear the
    sound. Do it several times.

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    C. Pay special attention to the pronunciation of the following terms,
    check document ‘materials to get you started’:

    1. Damp-proof membrane / dæmp pruːf ˈmɛmbreɪn/: Pay special attention to


    the sound of ‘membrane’.

    2. Drainage and waste /ˈdreɪnɪdʒ ænd weɪst/: Notice the ‘drainage’ sound
    links with ‘and’. Do not forget to pronounce the ‘t’ at the end of ‘waste’.

    3. Eave /iːv/: pronounce the ‘v’ properly.

    4. Fiber-glass: /ˈfaɪbə(r)ˌɡlɑːs/ ‘fiber’ is not /fi/ but /fai/.

    5. Fittings /fixtures /ˈfɪtɪŋ/ /ˈfɪkstʃəs/: observe that the pronunciation of the


    end of ‘fixture’ is the same as ‘architecture’ or ‘structure’.

    6. Floating floor /ˈfləʊtɪŋ flɔː(r)/: pay attention to the first syllable of ‘floating’,
    and that ‘floor’ has a long vowel.

    7. Gable roof /ˈɡeɪbl/: check first and second syllables of ‘gable’.

    8. Gutter /ˈɡʌtə/: observe the first vowel.

    9. Pitched roof /pɪtʃt/: the –ed end of pitched sounds ‘t’.

    10. Plumbing system /ˈplʌmɪŋ/: ‘u’ sounds the same as the ‘u’ in ‘gutter’

    11. Plywood /ˈplaɪˌwʊd/: note the pronunciation of ‘y’.

    12. Raised floor /reɪzd/: the –ed end of raised sounds /d/.

    13. Services /ˈsɜːvɪsɪz/: do not forget to pronounce the plural properly.

    14. Thermal and acoustic insulation /ˈθɜːməl/ /əˈkuːstɪk/ /ˌɪnsjʊˈleɪʃən/:


    observe the phonetic highlighted syllables in these three words in order to
    pronounce them properly.

    15. Tile /taɪl/: ‘i’ sounds /ai/, NOT ‘ei’. ‘Tale’ sounds /teil/ whose meaning is
    story, for children.

    16. Utility /juːˈtɪlɪtɪ/: ‘u’ sounds like a consotant.

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