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Effective Speaking
Effective Speaking
/I/ - Sit - /sIt/, Pit, Kit, Spit, Fit, Lit, Tit, Knit, village /vIlIdʒ/, women - /wImIn/,
woman - /wʊmən/
3. /e/ - Bed, Fed, Said - /sed/, Fled, Red, Read - /red/, Leopard - /lepa:d/, Elite - /eli:t/,
4. /3:/ - Bird - /b3:d/, Nurse, Purse, search, early, third, church, merch, word - /w3:d/, turn,
5. /æ/ - bad, sad, mad, bag, had, carry, ban, glad, thank, banish - /θæŋk/
6. /a:/ - bard, card, bar, barn, hard, harm, arm, are - /a:/, tarnish,
7. /ɒ/ - box, cot, pot, spot, lot, pox, stop, top, lock, stomp
9. /ʊ/ - put, cook, wood - /wʊd/, Would - /wʊd/, should - /ʃʊd/, spook, book, stood, look,
pull
10. /u:/ - food, pool, loop, lube, boot - /bu:t/, booth - /bu:θ/, fool, cool,
11. /ʌ/ - cut - /kʌt/, cup, dumb, month, blood, flood, love, dove, bus, colour, sung, luck,
suffer, rough.
12. /ə/ - About - /əˈbaʊt/, America - /əˈmɛrɪkə/, Cinema - /ˈsɪnəmə/, Advertise - /ˈædvərˌtaɪz/,
DIPHTHONGS
13. /ei/ - Pay, Gauge, Make, Plate, Collate, age, pain, claim,
14. /ai/ - Pie, Fight, like, type, die, sky, style, eye - /ai/, high - /hai/
15. /əu/ - Blow, tow, stone, foam, stole, float, spoke, mould, clove,
16. /au/ - Mount, count, blouse, cloud, towel, tower, how - /hau/, cow,
17. /ɔɪ/ - boy, spoil, foil, voice, employ, noise, enjoy, point, poison, boil, coil, oil,
18. /ɪə/ - beer, hear, era, dear, near, spear, gear, fear, appear, idea, year, sheer, deer, sphere
19. /eə/ - bare, share, care, spare, pear, fare, bear, hair, chair, affair, square, prepare, dare
CONSONANTS
9. /θ/ - think, thought, bath, forth, filth, math, thank, thesis, moth, thin, both, breath, myth,
10. /ð/ - this, that, bathe, smooth, than, breathe, those, father, mother, with,
11. /s/ - sip, mask, mass, master, slip, cast, assist, decency, sense,
13. /ʃ/ - she, fusion, mission, marsh, harsh, champagne, chef, assure,
14. /ʒ/ - measure, pleasure, treasure, leisure, provision, equation, conclusion, confusion,
each, chance,
16. /dʒ/ - Judge, Job, ChanGe, Judge, AGe, Just, Jack, Charge, Join, Enjoy, Genre - /dʒɒnrə/
18. /w/ - win, swim, window, tow, wear, ward, quick - /kwik/, quit - /kwit/,
20. /m/ - meat, spam, dumb, womb, comb, lamb, tomb, mammal,
21. /r/ - rabbit, crude, rat, manner - /mænər/, fruit, retreat, create
23. /ŋ/ - sing, sink - /siŋk/, singing - /sIŋIŋ/, king, ink, sang