Sound /i:/ and /ɪ/

I. Sound /i:/
1. Listen and say these words
see agree eat seat team
2. Listen and say these other words with /i:/

ie field piece

e these metre secret evening equal Peter museum European

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ey key

i ski kilo litre pizza police machine magazine

eo people

3. Now listen and say these sentences.

1 Can you see the sea?
2 A piece of pizza, please
3 Peter’s in the team.
4 A kilo of peaches and a litre of cream
5 Please can you teach me to speak Portuguese?
II. Sound /ɪ/
1. Listen and say these words
if listen miss dinner swim
2. Listen and say these other words with /ɪ/
busy business building system
3. Now listen and say these phrases.
1 fifty-six
2 dinner in the kitchen
3 a cinema ticket
4 a picture of a building
5 big business
III. Exercise
Exercise 1: Circle all the /i:/ sound and underline all the /ɪ/ sounds.
big busy dinner give green in listen meet office people pizza please repeat
six tea three miss sea

Exercise 2: Listen to the dialogue, paying attention to the target sound. Then read
the dialogue and fill the gaps (1-10) with the correct words from the box.
 cheese Peter eat please tea beef three me teas beef

In a cafe: 'lt's cheaper to eat at Marguerite's'

CHRISTINA: What would you lrke to eat, 1 ________? The cheese sandwiches are the
cheapest.
PETER: Er. . mmm... oh, a 2_________ sandwich, please, Christina.
CHRISTINA: Cheese ... mmm Janine? Would vou like a 3________ sandwich or a cheese
sandwich?
JANINE: A cheese sandwich, 4 ________
PETER: What about you, Christina? Would you like cheese or 5_________ ?
WAITRESS: Are you all ready to order? What would you like to 6_________ ?
CHRISTINA: Er, we'll have one beef sandwich, two cheese sandwiches and, mmm,
7________ for me.
JANINE: Tea for 8_________ too, please.
PETER: Yes, make that three 9 ________, please.
WAlTRESS: (writing down the order) One beef sandwich, two cheese sandwiches and
l0________ teas.

Exercise 3: Tick the words a) or b) that you hear in the sentences.

1. a) sheep b) ship
2. a) bean b) bin
3. a) cheeks b) chicks
4. a) cheap b) chip
5. a) heel b) hill
6. a) peel b) pill

Exercise 4: Choose the word which has the underlined part pronounced differently
from the rest.
1. A. machine B. if C. police D. pizza
2. a.heat b.meet c.ceiling d.pyramid
3. a.building b.ill c.system d.Peter
4. a.technique b.biscuit c.green d.bean
5. a.read b.unique c.spring d.weak
6. a.million b.river c.receive d.guilty