Instituto de Enseñanza Superior Nº 9-010 “Rosario Vera Peñaloza”

Prof. de Inglés – Phonetics and Phonology I

Practice – Consonant Sounds

/p/
person suppose keep expensive
put people hope especially
piece couple up tipping
pound happen cup stopping
possibly apple map typing
open
cheap milk

space speak play price

spear speed place wasps
special spelling plot gasps
spot spring apply grasps
sport spice pewter
puberty
pew

stopped sipped mopped lap-post

lip balm top banana top dog ripe cheese
lap top cheap cheese
/b/
bean about Abigail a bug
Boston baby abbey a boy
bus habit aboard a bicycle
bye October above the Bible
but probably aback the board
abyss the Buick

bob robbed
cab sobbed
Job rob Charles
lobster crab sandwich

brat broken abroad block able

break braces bleak blow gables
Minimal Pairs:
/p/ /b/ /p/ /b/
pin bin putt but
pig big pack back
pay bay maple Mabel
Pete beet napped nabbed

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 pie buy sopping sobbing
pound bound mop mob
pet bet nip nib
mopping mobbing
Sentences:
1. Please, pay the cashier.
2. I’d like a piece of apple pie and a cup of tea, please.
3. Peter, where did you put the piece of paper that Paul gave you?
4. Don’t push other people.
5. We’ll probably see Professor Spock in April.
6. Many people have been sent to outer space in the last ten years.
7. What’s the price of these pretty plates?
8. You’re not supposed to eat the spinach with a spoon.

9. My brother bought black shoes and a brown hat.

10. Better and best begin with B.
11. Bring my brother’s breakfast, please.
12. Bob’s from Belgrade, I believe.
13. Isn’t this brand-new building beautiful?
14. Billy’s bicycle’s broken.
15. Brad Pitt made Seven Years in Tibet.
16. The Blanding School coloured are blue and black.

17. The program will probably begin at about eight o’clock.

18. Bert spilled beer on his shirt at the party.
19. Pears and bananas are both fruits, but potatoes are vegetables.
20. Please, sharpen the purple and the brown pencils.
21. Paul, you’d better buy the blue paper.
22. Which bus goes to Buckingham Palace?
23. Have you been to the Capitol?
Contrast Between /b/ and /v/
Minimal Pairs:
/b/ /v/ /b/ /v/
ban van boat vote
bat vat by vie
Boyd void bet vet
boil voile bowels vowels
bane vane Lib live
berry very cabs calves
bale veil lobes loaves
bend vend robe rove
Sentences:
1. Bill is very much better today.
2. Everybody loves the beach.

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3. Every boy in school plays volleyball.
4. Do these berries grow on vines or bushes?
5. In English, B and V are both voiced.
6. Mr. Ives and Mr. Cleaves have been friends all their lives.
7. Mr. Burlington always gives Bob a book when he arrives.
/t/
tin part step quality little
tick root stand institute cattle
tie fit stool sixty settle
team cat stable bitter faint
tug dirt star butter lists
taught let trip wanted sits
tea get truck footnote written
tap yet trap nutmeg rotten
talk hat strong post meridian fits
teak strip footpad lets
time street nightcap lots
tape coastguard
tone dustproof
toot football

cut throat bright things wet through

let them go warmest thanks put back
a lot better let go sit down
Sentences:
1. She likes a lot of sugar in her tea.
2. She’s a bit too tall to wear that.
3. He cut it on a rusty old tin
4. Too many teenagers tend to waste their time watching television.
5. Before you take the medicine, shake it-
6. Don’t chew the food too fast.
7. There’s a lot of fat on top of the chop.
8. The trip by train took a tiresome twenty two hours.
9. He tore his trousers and lost two buttons.
10. Tell Thomas to take a turn at a table tennis.
11. That tin seems very thin.
12. The ten tiny students were taught by private tutor.

a letter to Mr. Tooley I saw it on the telly a tart for tea

fourteen eighty two twenty two tickets for a martini for Thomas
tonight

talk to me later it’s too tough to eat Tom bought a tender turkey

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 /d/
doubt comedy admit width
down adopt goldmine breadth
duke reduce headmaster good thoughts
duck addition harden dream
dim decide hidden drive
dam muddy midnight drift
double edition gladness drink
doom windy Sidney address
den adder sudden adrift
dip ending middle mudguard
day gladder candle weed killer
do harder handle sideboard
dare paddle headgear
door medal
dear needle

Voiced vs. Voiceless

tie die tense dense
tin din write ride
wrote rode writing riding
written ridden title tidal
too do toe doe
ten den ton done
team deem train drain
sight side heart heard
plate played bat bad
set said

a deaf doctor a dark day

a dim destiny a definite defeat
a delicate dinner did Dan?
Sentences:
1.What do you do if you stop work at two?
2.What colour did he dye that tie?
3.We sent downtown on Tuesday night.
4.Don’t you dare to tear that paper.
5.I saw him dip the tip on his fishing rod in the water.
6.Mr. Dent likes to rest in the tent.
7.A sail was tied to the side of the boat.
8.There’s a tear on the cover of that chair.
Did Dick? Did Dennis? Did Dolly? Did Dominic?

A: What do you want me to do now, Mrs. Thomsoms?

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B: You’ve worked well, Bert, and I see you removed all the paint stains after you’d
painted the window frames. Would you start on my husband’s den?
A: I thought your daughter had said the other day that she wanted to paint that.
B: My daughter? She’d rather picnic with her friends that work in this heat.
A; O.K. I’ll take a breath.
B: Yes, do. Have some tea. Here’s a cloth to wipe your hands with, or you’ll get your
clothes dirty.

/ð/
the father bathe
this mother breathe
that brother with
these bother
those gather
their further
thence either
thus southern
then weather
than
thee
though

den then tense dense thence

eider either tie die thy
Dan than They just don’t dare to go there.
dense thence Those lazy dogs just doze in the sun all the
dare there time.
day they They stayed there all day.
doe though This discount is more than they usually give.
doze those

that day the ladder cut them

that dot the media put them
that date the meadow fight them
that doubt the leader meet them
that debt the lady light them
that deep and this let them

1.On that day I departed.

2.It’s made of delicate leather.
3.That day they defeated them.
4.I’m delighted that the doctor said that.
5.Any ideas for the dance?
6.Did they do that to the deaf lady?

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7.I would rather you didn’t use leather, either.
8.He had nothing valuable, even in those days.
9.He left his father and mother and wandered abroad.

/k/
keep cruel anchor request
king Christmas nickname require
Kent sky picnic squeeze
curl skill Cockney square
cod clue liqueur squash
calm cliff discord
cord clay conquest
chaos quite inquisitive
cart quiver acquaintance cracked
break tackle cook wrinkle
attic uncle antique logical
dramatic lick picked kick
tricked luck bacon ache
thicken quick taken take

dark night black dog sick child

pick more take two make do
quick move look down dark girl

knee knife knight knuckle knock

1. I acquired a quaint copper kettle in the market

2. If we keep quiet we may be lucky and see the cuckoo.
3. The detective came across a clear clue in a clump of lilac bushes.
4. The king was cured of his hiccoughs by a clever doctor from Canada.
5. Take care not to make many mistakes when you bake those cakes or you
may get a stomachache.

After his car had been checked, my uncle accused the mechanics of
taking some of his tobacco and a chequebook. According to him, he was
accustomed to taking every article or object which could be stolen out of
his car on the frequent occasions when he had it checked, because he had
a suspicious character; but on this particular occasion, he was late for
school, and his love of being punctual conquered his suspiciousness. Of
course, his inquiries led to nothing, but he secretly suspected the most skilful
of the mechanics, who smoked a pipe and was clearly clever.

/g/

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 gas grunt trigger eager
goat grace figure finger
gay groove pigment hunger
gold great ignorant anger
gown glue fragment longer
goal glove signal linger
guest glaze examination longest
ghost gleam exaggerate tiger
gather glare exhaust younger
guard glass exhibit youngest
geese fishmonger ugly
gift
gear

jug eagle bagpipes

snug bangle ragtime
lag struggle rugby
mug bugle pigtail
plague single big cat
vague single dig deep
hug juggle hug tenderly
league angle nag badly

1. The great king gave his guests magnificent gifts of gold.

2. Let us go and get our guns and give the enemy a grim welcome.
3. If you go digging in the garden, don’t forget to get your old grey gloves.
4. Our grey geese gave us an angry warning when the hungry wolf came
again.
5. Is it exact to say that after the examination the girls were exhausted, haggard
and aghast?
6. I’m beginning to feel hungry. Can you get me some eggs and a big jug of
beer?

cold gold clean glean

cot got clue glue
curl girl craft graft
come gum crane grain
coal goal crew grew
cap gap class glass
cod god
card guard

lack lag ankle angle

pick pig bicker bigger

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back bag anchor anger
buck bug pecking pegging
duck dug
wick wig
lock log

You have left your coat in our garden.

goat

I don’t like this creed at all.

greed

Take your pig and go!

I’ve come to ask if you can get this clock going for me.
On his back he was carrying a kit bag.
I beg you not to keep the kettle on the carpet.
Come into the kitchen and we’ll be as snug as a bug in a rug.
Cocoa is grown on the Gold Coast.
Come into the kitchen and we’ll be as snug as a bug in a rug.

A: When the rain stops, you’ll see how beautiful the beach is.
B: But the rain’s been pouring down for two days. We’ve both caught cold.
Let’s pack our bags and go back to town.
A: The bedroom is a bit damp, yes. But it’s better than a tent. You wanted to
go camping, remember?
B: You’re impossible, Tom (she sniffs).
A: Well you did. You wanted to sleep in a tent.
B: (She sneezes)
A: Oh, all right. (He sneezes) Let’s pack (sniffs).

/w/
wax sway
worth twelve
wolf queen
work sweet suite
wait weight choir
watch acquire
want squeak
wheat exquisite
where wear aqueduct
whether weather require
whet wet inquisitive
wander
wonder

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whisper
once
William
while
weep
wild
wicked
Wales
winter

would good
west guest
will gill
whirl girl
one gun
we’re gear
way gay
why guy
what got
wait gate
wet get

1. What will you wear, a white waistcoat or a woollen sweater?

2. You will be required to keep quite quiet for a while.
3. It was a pleasure to watch the wonderful way in which they worked
4. Edward acquired twenty-one exquisite woodcuts while he was away.
5. Which word would one want if one wanted a word?
6. I wonder if this house will be vacant next week.
7. We won’t be away very long, as we won’t want to winter in Wales.

A: Where’s the wagon?

B: Where’s what wagon?
A: The water wagon.
B: what water wagon?
A: The wagon with the water.
B: What water?
A: I want water.
B: We all want water.
A: Well, where’s the water.
B: Good question.

Which of these languages does William speak well? That is the question.
Once or twice Swiss people walked towards him and wanted to speak to

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him, but he always went quite white and quickly looked somewhere else.
Why did he keep quiet when you came forward a quarter of an hour ago
and asked where the square was? While he was at school, he won a prize for
French and one for German, so what has happened? I damaged a wheel
on my car, but when we went to a garage, he didn’t remember the word for
a wheel in French or German.

/j/

youth stew young steward

yield argue yet value
yarn music yard duty
yacht suit yoke assume
yearn curious use furious
unit reduce union excuse
unique refuse universe fewer
yesterday huge yellow newer

ear year yet jet

earn yearn use juice
ate yet yacht jot
ooze use your jaw
east yeast yam jam
oak yoke yoke joke
oar your yaw year jeer

gear jeer year

get jet yet
got jot yacht
gale jail Yale

Yes, he uses a tube of unique yellow liquid made from onions to cure that
disease.
Listening to beautiful music may make you yearn to hear more music.
I would be curious to use the yolk of a few new eggs in that stew.
I assume the new student in the queue has been to European university.
You must be yearning for your native sunshine.
Do you usually get up as early as you did yesterday?

/s/

Sue bus said

price sit palace
sand hissed sip

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sensible illness yes
Saturday fist crisp
outside instead skiing
remarks lots Paris
expensive rocks shorts
grapes understand shoots
garments cigarettes shops
sheets heiress passed
sealed sign sore
suit police rice
pipes strengths delights
lamps advice practice
smile spacious spine
slave stadium something
spend stranger scanty
struck self-centred stressed
start sleep small
scraps tasteless sphere
listen rustle Christmas
fasten square marvellous
wrestler industry castle
whistle soften use (noun)
votes boats increase

Minimal Pairs:
/s/ /ɵ/ /t/ /s/ /ʃ/
sin thin tin Sue shoe
sank thank tank sign shine
sick thick tick suit shoot
sigh thigh tie sealed shield
pass path part sore shore
sort thought taught
tense tenth tent
face faith fate
force fourth fought

1. Let’s sit in the sun.

2. Let’s stay in a hotel.
3. Let’s sleep outside
4. Let’s spend Sunday there, too.
5. He smokes cigarettes.
6. He wants some books.
7. I hate hats.
8. I eat biscuits.

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9. I laugh at jokes.
10. I take photographs.
11. I get headaches.
12. He speaks slowly.
13. Shall we sit in the sun or go swimming?
14. Shall we take a suitcase or a basket?
15. Shall we sleep outside or in an expensive hotel?
16. Shall we eat biscuits or ice-cream?
17. Shall we go sailing or water skiing?

The Smile of a Snake

She speaks slowly, and smokes special, expensive cigarettes. As she steps
upstairs, her long skirt sweeps over her silver slippers. She is small and smart
and sweet-smelling. Her skin is like snow. “You have stolen my heart”. I once
said stupidly, and she smiled. But when she smiled, she smiled the smile of a
snake.

/z/
cigars fools cheeses
pyjamas figs matches
feature reflections confidences
suburbs shoes illnesses
coffees branches mountain
trousers passions existence
heads leaves path
houses use (verb) faces
rice saves feminism
materialism close (verb) those
doze clothes lose
lies breeze ties
does buzz surprise
amazing these zoo

Minimal Pairs:
/s/ /z/ / ð/ /z/
Sue zoo breathe breeze
said zed teaching teasing
sip zip clothing closing
bus buzz bathe bays
piece peas though zone
price prize
police please
rice rise

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Sentences:

I always lose things.

I need some scissors.
Does your cousin use only one glass?
I listen to jazz records.
I buy expensive clothes.
She always wears beautiful clothes.
His mother’s carrying roses.

Mrs. Smith: This parcel smells, Mrs. Jones.

Mrs. Jones: Something’s written on it.
Mrs. Smith: What does it say?
Mrs. Jones: It says: This parcel contains six mice.
Mrs. Smith: Pooh!
Mrs. Jones: Listen! What’s in the sack? It’s making a strange hissing noise.
Mrs. Smith: Oh! It’s a sack of snakes!
Mrs. Jones: So it is! And what’s in this box?
Mrs. Smith: It’s making a buzzing sound!
Mrs. Jones: These are bees!
Mrs. Smith: A parcel of mice! And a sack of snakes! And a box of bees! This is
very surprising.
Mrs. Jones: It’s amazing! This isn’t a post office, Mrs. Jones! It’s a zoo!

/ ʒ/

measure treasure casual

Asia unusual collision
garage pleasure leisure
beige casualty vision
conclusion confusion television
persuasion explosion version

Television Programmes: Channel 0

7:00 Children’s Film: “Treasure Island”
7:25 News Comment: “An Unusual Collision”
7:30 Fashion: “Casual Clothes”
7:45 Travel Film: “Across Asia in a Peugeot”
8:15 Do It Yourself: “How to measure a New Garage
8:30 Variety Show: “It’s a Pleasure”

/dʒ /
jeep joke gin
Jerry large ginger

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January just jail
dangerous manager agency
edge village bridge
injured passenger damaged
James George Joseph
jam job general
imagine judge ridge
jeer luggage cabbage
orange juice message
arrange engine enjoy
change jet challenge
strange plunger challenger

/dʒ / - /tʃ/
orange juice rich gentleman which job
village jail huge jam-jar college chess
large cherries teach German how much

Jerry: Just outside this village there’s a very dangerous bridge.

John: Yes. Charles told me two jeeps crashed on it in January. What
happened?
Jerry: Well, George Churchill was the driver of the larger jeep, and he was
driving very dangerously. He’d been drinking gin.
John: George Churchill? Do I know him?
Jerry: Yes. That ginger-haired chap. He’s the manager of the travel agency
Chester.
John: Oh, yes. I remember George. He’s always telling jokes. Well, was
anybody injured?
Jerry: Oh, yes. The other jeep went over the edge of the bridge, and two-
children and another passenger were badly injured.
John: Were both jeeps damaged?
Jerry: Oh, yes.
John: And what happened to George?
Jerry: George? He’s telling jokes in jail now, I suppose!

/ŋ/

wing thing rang rung

bang wrong ping sing
song sung ring sang
ring sting hang King
morning string bring morning
string standing banging hanging

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ringing singing bringing think
pink wink sink bank
sank rink drink drunk
Frank ankle uncle wrongfully
Washington stringy banger singer
coat hanger left-winger bell ringer anger
finger ironmonger hunger linger
stronger strongest
Minimal Pairs:
/n/ /ŋ/ /ŋk/ /ŋ/
sin sing wink wing
ran rang sink sing
ton tongue rink ring
sun sung stink sting
sinner singer bank bang
win wing
thin thing
ban bang
Sentences:
1. Aunt Angela banged her ankle while dancing a tango with Uncle Frank
and a Birmingham skating rink.
2. The Hong Kong gangster, drinking a gin sling in a single’s bar, wined at
the pretty, young singer singing romantic songs.
3. What’s that long, pink stringy thing on Angus King’s tongue?
4. A Singapore dancer was wrongfully hanged for killing a Washington
banker outside a boxing ring.

Mr. Pring: (angrily) Bang! Bang! What are the Kings doing at seven o’clock on
Sunday morning?
Mrs. Pring: Well, Mr. King’s singing.
Mr. Pring: Yes, but what’s the banging noise?
Mrs. Pring: He’s standing on a ladder and banging some nails into the wall
with a hammer. Now he’s hanging some strong string on the nails.
Mr. Pring: And What’s Mrs. King doing?
Mrs. Pring: She’s bringing something pink for Mr. King to drink. Now she’s
putting under the ladder, and…oh!
Mr. Pring: What’s happening?
Mrs. Pring: The ladder’s falling.
Mr. Pring: What’s Mr. King doing?
Mrs. Pring: He’s hanging from the string. He’s holding in his fingers and he’s
shouring to Mrs. King.
Mr. Pring: And is she helping him?
Mrs. Pring: No, she’s running to our house. Now she’s ringing the bell.
Mr. Pring: I’m not going to answer it. I’m sleeping.

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