Pronunciation

Communication is a two-way process:

A) UNDERSTANDING OTHER B) CONVEYING WHAT YOU WANT

PEOPLE WHEN THEY SPEAK. TO SAY SO THAT OTHER PEOPLE
CAN UNDERSTAND YOU.
 Watch this Video
about the Alphabet

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=CSufa33OHyU
 Clear English with Keenyn Rhodes
 How to pronounce the letters of the
English Alphabet
 Hints on pronunciation for foreigners

 I take it you already know Of tough and bough and

cough and dough? Others may stumble but not you
Or hiccough, thorough laugh and through? Well
done: And now you wish perhaps To learn of these
familiar traps:
 Beware of heard a dreadful word That looks like
beard and sounds like bird. And dead: It's said like
bed, not bead, For goodness' sake, don't call it deed!
Watch out for meat and great and threat, They
rhyme with suite and straight and debt. A moth is
not a moth in mother Nor both in bother, broth in
brother. And here is not a match for there Nor dear
and fear for bear and pear And then there's does and
rose and lose, Just look them up; and goose and
choose.
 And cork and work and hard and ward And font and
front and word and sword. And do and go and thwart
and part – Come, come, I've hardly made a start! A
dreadful language? Man alive, I'd mastered it when I
was five! (Anonymous)
 English pronunciation drills

1. /i: /- long sound

a tree, three leaves, a bee, a sheep, a fleet, sea,

ice-cream for tea

Stephan meets Eve

Stephan is greedy.

He eats three pieces of cheese.

Asleep

Stephan dreams of Eve. He sees Eve fleeing from three beasts.

 /i/- short sound

Ink, a ship , a fish, a biscuit, a tin, whistle, a big pig, a

little kitten, a kitchen sink, with, dishes, in, it,
Which of the six thin women is a wicked witch?

is-iz

of- ov

off- of
 æ vs e

a pat , a pet, one man, many men, a net,

a gnat pedaling, paddling
Ted has Dad’s hat on his head.

Jack’s Czech friend Franz is very

expansive.
Franz’s French friend is very expensive.
 æ-

a hat, a hut, a battler, a butler, a stamp, a stump,

a banker, a bunker

These windows were shattered.

These windows were shuttered.

bag- bug

hat- hut
 /Th/ sound voiceless vs voiced

Voiceless : thin, Voiced: these,

thanks, toothpaste, them, though, weather,
thorn, cloth breathe
 The throng of thermometers from the
Thuringian Thermometer
 "Folks arrived on Thursday. There were a
thousand thirty three thick thermometers,
though ,instead of a thousand thirty-six thin
thermometers, which was three
thermometers, fewer than the thousand
thirty-six we were expecting, not to mention
that they were thick ones rather than thin
ones.
 We thoroughly thought that we had
ordered a thousand thirty -six, not a
thousand thirty three, thermometers, and
asked the Thuringian Thermometer Folks
to reship the thermometers; thin not thick.
They apologized for sending for only a
thousand thirty-three thermometers rather
than a thousand thirty-six and promise to
replace the thick thermometers with thin
thermometers."
 Vowel - Practice : Diphthongs

 A diphthong is a vowel-sound containing two

elements, during the articulation of which the
tongue, jaws and lips change their position. In all
English diphthongs the first element is considerably
stronger than the second.
 [ei], [ai], [au], [oi], [ou]
 rate – late – Kate – fate – race
 ride – nice – ice – life – file – smile
 joy – toy – boy – annoy
 road – load – boat – coat
 how – cow - loud – proud
 What is ‘schwa’?

 ‘Schwa’ is an English vowel sound. In the

International Phonetic Alphabet it’s written
as /ə/.
 Schwa has a special name because it’s the
most common English vowel sound.
 Schwa is a weak vowel found in unstressed
syllables.
 It sounds like a weak ‘uh’.
 Example: ‘carrot’ is pronounced /ˈkæ.rət/
KA.ruht.
 Examples
 confirm /kənˈfɜːm/  pencil /ˈpen.səl/
 combine /kəmˈbaɪn/  cousin /ˈkʌ.zən/
 purpose /ˈpɜː.pəs/  mention /ˈmen.ʃən/
 famous /ˈfeɪ.məs/
 permission /pəˈmɪʃ.ə
 focus /ˈfoʊ.kəs/
n/
 virus /ˈvaɪ.rəs/
 August /ˈɔː.ɡəst/
 Cinema /ˈsɪnəmə/
 supply /səˈplaɪ/
 Commonly mispronounced words

Chocolate – /ˈtʃɑk·lət/ (US)

Indigent – /ˈɪn·dɪ·dʒənt/ (US)
YouTube – /juː.tuːb/ (US)
Tutor – /ˈtu·t̬ər/ (US)
News – /nuz/ (US)
Cleanliness – /ˈklen·li·nəs/ (US)
Cocoa – /ˈkoʊ·koʊ/ (US)
Debut – /ˈdeɪ·bju/ or /deɪˈbju/ (US)
Menu- /ˈmenjuː/
Lose- /luːz/
Loose- /luːs/
Mango – /ˈmæŋɡəʊ/
Pizza- /ˈpiːtsə/
Produce- /prəˈduːs/ not pro-juice
Example - /ɪɡˈzæmpl/
Three- /θriː/th… not tree
Southern- /ˈsʌðərn/
Gigantic- /dʒaɪˈɡæntɪk/
Margarine- /ˈmɑːrdʒərən/
Cupboard- /ˈkʌbərd/
 Awry /əˈraɪ/
 Nonchalant /ˌnɑːnʃəˈlɑːnt/
 Banana /bəˈnænə/
 Stir /stɜːr/
 Bury /ˈberi/
 Oven /ˈʌvn/
 Shampoo /ʃæmˈpuː/
 Poem /ˈpəʊəm/
 Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled
peppers.
A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper
picked.
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled
peppers,
Where’s the peck of pickled peppers
Peter Piper picked?
Tongue
Twisters Betty Botter bought some butter
But she said the butter’s bitter
If I put it in my batter, it will make
my batter bitter
But a bit of better butter will make
my batter better
So ‘twas better Betty Botter bought a
bit of better butter
Keep on Practicing!
Thank you for participating! by: Charlotte Dupingay