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PRONUNCIATION COURSE

LESSON 1: VOWEL (PART 1)

Section 1:

- /i:/ and /I/


FOCUS
Section 2:

- /u:/ and /u/

SECTION 1: /I:/ AND /I/

How to make the sound /i:/

/i:/ is a long sound. Look at the diagram.


Listen and say the sound. Make your
mouth wide, like a smile. Your tongue
touches the sides of your teeth.

Sound and spelling

/i:/ is often spelled as ee , ea , ie , e , ey or oe

- ee: see - agree


- ea: seat - team - eat
- ie: field - piece
- e: these - meter - secret - evening - equal - Peter
- ey: key
- i: ski - kilo - liter - pizza - police
Now, listen and say these sentences.

LESSON 1 – VOWEL PART 1 1


1. Can you see the sea?
2. A piece of pizza, please!
3. Peter’s in the team
Practice the sound /i:/

Exercise 1 ( A11):

How to make the sound /i/

/i/ is a short sound. Look at the


diagram. Listen and then say the sound.
Make your mouth a bit less wide than
for /i:/. Your tongue is a bit further back
in your mouth than for /i:/. Target sound:
/i/ (Recording A10a)

Sound and spelling

/i/ is usually spelled i. Listen and say these words.

If listen miss dinner swim busy business building system

Now listen and say these phrases.

1. Fifty-six

LESSON 1 – VOWEL PART 1 2


2. Dinner in the kitchen
3. A cinema ticket
4. A picture of a building
5. Big business
Practice the sound /i/

Exercise 1 (A12)

Practice both sounds

1. Choose one word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the
others:
a. Team b. Beam c. Seam d. Film
a. Steam b. Will c. Until d. Milk
a. Silk b. Thrill c. Chill d. Feel
a. Still b. Ticket c. Fifty d. See

a. Dinner b. Thrill c. See d. Please

LESSON 1 – VOWEL PART 1 3


Exercise 2:

LESSON 1 – VOWEL PART 1 4


SECTION 2: /U:/ AND /U/

How to make the sound /u:/

/u:/ is the long sound. Look at the


diagram. Listen and then say the word.
Make your lips into a tunnel shape. Your
tongue is a long way back in your mouth.
(Recording A16a)

Sound and spelling


/u:/ is often spelled at oo, ou, oe, u, ue or ew. Listen and say these words.
Too group shoe blue
When the spelling is u or ew, there is often a /j/ sound before the /u:/. Listen and say
these words.
Music new
There are also other spellings of /u:/. Listen and say these other words with /u:/.
Two fruit juice
Now listen and say these phrases
1. Me too
2. Work in groups
3. New shoes
4. Red and blue
5. Listen to the music
6. Forty-two
7. Fruit juice

Practice the sound /u:/

LESSON 1 – VOWEL PART 1 5


Exercise 1 (A18)

How to make the sound /ʊ/ (short u)


/ʊ/ is a short sound. Look at the diagram.
Listen and then say the sound. Your
tongue is not so far back as for /u:/.
Target sound: /ʊ/

Sound and spelling


/ʊ/ is often spelled u, oo or ou. Listen and say these words.
Full sugar book foot wound
Listen and say this other words with /ʊ/
Woman
Now listen and say these phrases
1. My bag is full.
2. Where’s my book?
3. My left foot

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4. A kilo of sugar
5. Who’s that woman?
Exercise (A20)

Practice both sounds

Exercise 1: Write each other in the right column. Words with two underlines go in more
than one column.

1. Full 2. Cookery 3. Through


4. Sugar 5. Woman 6. Foot
7. Two 8. Tuesday 9. Four

Short u Long u

Exercise 2: Underline /ʊ/ and circle /uː/

a. Could you tell me where you’ve put my book?


b. Your bookshelf is full of books.

LESSON 1 – VOWEL PART 1 7


c. Look! The boy is looking at your book.
d. Miss June is looking at the Moon.
e. Both your shoes and your boots are dirty.
f. Miss Moon went to school this afternoon.

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