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This document introduces English pronunciation sounds and rules. It begins by focusing on the /i:/, /i/, and /ai/ sounds. It then provides examples of other sounds like /e/ and /ae/ and lists 7 rules of English pronunciation related to vowel sounds, spelling patterns, and suffixes. The document directs the reader to online audio examples and activities to practice sounds and connected speech. It concludes by explaining the Great Vowel Shift in English pronunciation that changed long vowel pronunciations over 8 steps historically.

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Lesson 1

This document introduces English pronunciation sounds and rules. It begins by focusing on the /i:/, /i/, and /ai/ sounds. It then provides examples of other sounds like /e/ and /ae/ and lists 7 rules of English pronunciation related to vowel sounds, spelling patterns, and suffixes. The document directs the reader to online audio examples and activities to practice sounds and connected speech. It concludes by explaining the Great Vowel Shift in English pronunciation that changed long vowel pronunciations over 8 steps historically.

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LESSON 1

This first lesson is mainly about becoming familiar with the /i:/, /i/
and /ai/ sounds. Nevertheless, I will introduce a little bit other sounds
as well as some rules to start in this long pronunciation journey. Then, I
will gradually add new sounds and rules to build up a pretty extent and
useful document about pronunciation.

Sounds

/i:/ bee, see, knee


/i/ bit, fit, pig
/ai/ > kite, rice, shine, wine, white, quite
/e/ pet
/ae/ cat

Rules

1.
only

There
5

are
short

sounds

in

English.
2. Every time that we have a C V C (Consonant Vowel Consonant)
structure, the vowel in the middle sounds in a short way.
3. Magic e whenever we have an e at the end that is not pronounced
the vowel sound that goes immediately before turns into a long one.

4. If we have a CV (Consonant Vowel) structure or a vowel team one, the


sound there is a long one like, for example, /i:/.
5. We can move from a short sound to a long one by adding an e to a
CVC structure.
6. When we have a CVC structure and we want to keep the short sound
when adding a suffix, we double the las consonant.
E.g. Sit sitting (the second word is split in the middle and the
accent goes at the beginning.
7. r- controlled when we have a vowel followed by an r, a single sound
is made; the vowel plus the r make a single sound:
-ar, -er, -ir, -or, -ur (-er and ir sound the same because they are
homophones).
8. j and w are semivowels.

Activities about sounds and spelling

Activities about connected speech


1B http://vocaroo.com/i/s1wgY9rGS7Dv
2C http://vocaroo.com/i/s1Ds6abgKssz
3A http://vocaroo.com/i/s0k6iB5M5NUw

Filled in dialogue http://vocaroo.com/i/s0qqJSRrCrSu

Great vowel shift


GVS stands for Great Vowel Shift and it is a kind of historic
revolution in terms of pronunciation in English. This is, long
vowels that used to be pronounced in one place in the mouth,
were changed and pronounced in a different way.
This process took eight steps to be completed:

This is mainly the reason why, for example in Scotland,


people pronounce some words in a different way that
Londoners do. It depends on the pronunciation model
followed.

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