ALPHABET

CONSONANT AND VOWELS

 /ei/ /bi/

A • late, make, race,

able, stable.
B • Book, baby,
boomer, bread.
 /ci/ /di/

C • Cook, chicken,
cookie, candy.
D • Doll, dance,
dice, duvet
 /i/

E F
/ef/
• be, eve, see,
• Focus, family,
meet, sleep.
force, famous.
G H
/yi/ /eich/

• Goat • House, home,

• Goal hope, horse.
• generous
 /yei/

I J
/ai/

ice, find, smile, Jail, jelaous, jar,

tie, lie, die. jaguar.
K L
/kei/ /el/

Kilo, kiwi, kid, Lion, lounge,

kind. lunch, light.
M N
/em/ /en/

Mother, mouse, Nice, nose, night,

mountain, moose. noun
O P
/ou/ /pi/

go, note, open, Prince, piece,

old, most. propose, paint.
KIU

Q
QUEEN
QUEUE
QUESTION
R S
/ar/ /es/

Race, round, rice, Spider, skeleton,

rose. study, studio
T U
/ti/ /yu/
use, duty, music,
Tie, toddler, cute, huge, tune,
tongue, tour
V
/vi/ /dobliu or doble

W
yu/
Vote, vowel,
vacation, value. Work, wife, wolf,
wireless.
X Y
/ex/ /wai/

Extreme, exit, axe, yard, year, yes,

exhausted yet, yield, you.
 /zed/

Z
bronze
dozens
frozen
puzzle
amazed
amazon
SO, WHY DO SOME LETTERS SOUND VERY
DIFFERENT?
DO YOU NEED TO REMEMBER ALL THESE
SYMBOLS TO SPEAK ENGLISH WELL?
JUST NOTICE THAT SOMETIMES LETTERS
WILL SOUND DIFFERENT.

Sounds Letters Examples Notes

be, eve, see, meet, sleep, been [i];
e, ee
[i:] ea
ie, ei
meal, read, leave, sea,
team,
bread, deaf [e];
great, break [ei];
field, believe, receive friend [e]

[i] i
y
it, kiss, tip, pick, dinner, machine, ski,
system, busy, pity, sunny liter, pizza [i:]
 let, tell, press, send, end,
[e] e
ea
bread, dead, weather,
leather
meter [i:]
sea, mean [i:]

late, make, race, able,

a
stable,  
[ei] ai, ay
ei, ey
ea
aim, wait, play, say, day,
eight, weight, they, hey,
said, says [e];
height, eye [ai]
break, great, steak

[æ] a
cat, apple, land, travel, mad;
AmE: last, class, dance, castle, half
 

army, car, party, garden, park, war, warm [o:]

[a:] ar
a
father, calm, palm, drama;
BrE: last, class, dance, castle, half
 
 

[ai] i, ie
y, uy
ice, find, smile, tie, lie, die,
my, style, apply, buy, guy
 

[au] ou
ow
out, about, house, mouse,
now, brown, cow, owl, powder
group, soup [u:]
know, own [ou]
 not, rock, model, bottle,
[o] o
copy
 

more, order, cord, port,

or
long, gone, cost, coffee, work, word [ər]
o
law, saw, pause, because,  
[o:] aw, au
ought
bought, thought, caught,  
hall, always, water, war,  
al, wa-
want

[oi] oi, oy oil, voice, noise, boy, toy  

go, note, open, old, most,
o do, move [u:]
[ou] oa, ow
road, boat, low, own,
bowl
how, owl [au]
 use, duty, music, cute, huge,
u
tune,
ew
yu:] few, dew, mew, new,  
eu
euphemism, feud, neutral,
ue, ui
hue, cue, due, sue, suit

u rude, Lucy, June,

o, oo do, move, room, tool,  
ew crew, chew, flew, jewel,  
[u:]
ue, ui blue, true, fruit, juice, guide, quite [ai];
ou group, through, route; build [i]
  AmE: duty, new, sue, student
oo look, book, foot, good,
[u] u put, push, pull, full, sugar,  
ou would, could, should

u, o gun, cut, son, money, love,

Also:
ou tough, enough, rough,
neutral sound [ə] stressed, [ʌ];
a, e about, brutal, taken, violent,
unstressed, [ə].
o, i memory, reason, family

er, ur, ir serve, herb, burn, hurt, girl, sir,

 
[ər] or, ar work, word, doctor, dollar,
heart, hearth [a:]
ear heard, earn, earnest, earth
YOU DON’T NEED TO REMEMBER ALL
THESE RULES.