Speech Training

LESSON 1: / Iː / & / ɪ /

Nguyen Ngoc Nhat Minh, UFLS-UD

Overview
• Course code: ESPT
• Number of credits: 3
• Course description:
This course is aimed at providing students with basic knowledge of
English phonemes and supra-segmental aspects of speech (including
stress, linking, and intonation). The acquired knowledge will be the
foundation and also the prerequisites for students to enroll in the course of
Phonetics & Phonology in the next semester.
Nguyen Ngoc Nhat Minh, UFLS-UD, 2019
Course Assessment
Assessment Components Weight
Online exercises 10%
On-going Groupwork completion 10%
assessment Mid-term oral test
10%
(5-10 mins)
Final
Oral test (10-15 mins) 70%
Assessment
The sound
/iː/
How to make the sound /i:/
• Open your mouth very little
to make the target sound
/i:/.
• The colon : indicates that
/i:/ is a long sound.
Sound in words
Sound in multisyllabic words
• The syllable that contains the sound /i:/ is often stressed in a
word.
• The underlined part indicates which part of the word is stressed
(pronounced more loudly and slowly than other syllables).

people evening repeat Vietnamese

cheesecake Peter believe Janine

* Note: Moving stress
The stress changes if the next syllable is strongly stressed.

For example: ‘The beef is Japanese.’ ,

but ‘It’s Japanese beef.’

The sound
/ɪ /
How to make the sound /ɪ/
• First, make the sound /i:/.
• Next, open your mouth a
little more to make the target
sound /ɪ/. /ɪ/ is a shorter
sound.
Sound in words
Minimal pairs
Minimal pairs
Practice 1: Listen to six sentences and tick the word you hear.
Minimal pairs
Practice 1: Listen to six sentences and tick the word you hear.
Most common spellings…
/i:/ /ɪ /
“ee”: bee, interviewee, “i” : if, live, swim, dinner,
guarantee… …
“ea”: sea, seat, team,

Nguyen Ngoc Nhat Minh, UFLS-UD, 2019

Some commonly mispronounced words
• White ; high ; smile…
• Sky ; shy ; firefly …
• Key ; they …

Nguyen Ngoc Nhat Minh, UFLS-UD, 2019

Practice 2: Say these sentences
1. Listen and repeat.
2. Let’s meet at six o’clock.
3. Don’t eat that pill.

Nguyen Ngoc Nhat Minh, UFLS-UD, 2019

Thank you !