PRONEMIC SYMBOLS AND WORDS

Vowel sounds

Phonetic symbols and words

"a"

"a"

"a"

am
cat
Japan
bag
thanks
packet
fat
that
grandmother
man
at
bank
have
black
stand
can
lamb
Saturday
January
tracksuit

hat
had
pack
casual
apple
accident
ran
back
bad
sat
ankle
match
fan
pat
happy
hand
happen
capital
drink - drank

cash
champagne
reality
personality
average
van
exam
Italian
avenue
finance
valley
telegram
marry
Africa
carrot
wrap
garage
manager
imagine

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"u"
up
cup
rubber
much
study
understand
uncle
ugly
jump
lunch
husband
sun
under
Sunday
number
gun
luggage
rubbish
curry
crush
run
fun
funny
shut
sung
swum
Sunday
sudden
jumper
sunbathe

club
just
fun
cut
Russian
duck
hut
must
luck
shut
nut
but
run
bus
but
dumb
subtle
muscle
adult
mustard
subway
begun
drunk
rung
run, run, run
understand
thumb
summer
customer
customs

"u"

.. . . .

Phonetic symbols and words

"o"
wonderful
nothing
above
love
glove
money
come
son
Monday
one
monkey
among
ton
some
oven
done
mother
onion
honey
won
stomach
income
worry
in front of
cover
become

" ou "
southern
young
country
double
enough
trouble
couple
cousin
courage

" oe "
does
doesnt

" oo "
blood
flood

"o"

" ou "

" oe "

" oo "

/ /

"e"
flmnsxz
tell
red
French
pen
ten
get
men
very
spell
egg
help
pencil
stress
desk
yes
negative
twelve
welcome
when
tennis
less
television
bed
sell
tell
bell
lend
fell
web
American
beg
elbow
leg
neck
alphabet
elephant
elegant
second
went
selfish
terror
hen
well
insect
fell
belt
exercise
excellent
telegram
desert
chemists
cheque
bell
merry
method
petrol
eleven
dentist
Wednesday
second
seventh
depth
empty
celebrate
restless

" ea "
head
dead
already
leather
sweat
sweater
unpleasant
heavy
heaven
bread
instead
breath
instead
breakfast
measure
wealthy
healthy
pleasant
pleasure

"a"
many
any
anyway
anything

" ai - ay "
said
again
said
says

" ie "
friend

"u"
bury

"e"

" ea "

"a"

" ai - ay "

" ie "

"u"

/ /

Phonetic symbols and words

/

"a"
"e"
"o"
" oa "
" ou "
"u"
"i"
about
mother
computer cupboard famous
{ us
family
finally
rubber
tomorrow
should
supply
equality
German
paper
information
would
suppose responsibility
Japan
accident
tomato
enormous surprise
responsible
grammar
later
today
ridiculous autumn
sensible
cassette
murderer
doctor
fabulous
August
sensitive
woman
father
actor
behaviour succeed
holiday
a
cover
economy
picture
recipe
pizza
rather
error
adventure
Brazil
worker
Europe
measure
again
daughter
European
Saturday
America
brother
ribbon
banana
computer
prisoner
camera
the
mirror
again
over
together
inmediately
them
environment
casual
secretary
opposite
allow
teacher
onion
above
envelope
opinion
ago
letter
carrot
vinegar
supermarket
method
agree
wonderful
police
alarm
student
petrol
alone
prisoner
second
afraid
river
memory
among
water
nobody
aloud
October
lion
around
children
million
was
teenager
billion
England
together
customer
husband
western
cathedral
science
Its a
open
anoy
desert
envelope
another
mustard
seventh
opera
parent
Christmas
sister
another
trainers
along
restless
library
genttleman
moral
than
scenary
machine
sauna
"a"
"e"
"o"
" oa "
" ou "
"u"
"i"

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"i"
his
it
big
British
fifteen
is
sing
dictionary
video
Its a ...
Italy
Brazil
sit
in
instead
prince
princess
fill
pin
tissue
bitch
ink
insect
this
milk
sensitive
village
king
city
income
pig
pitch
skip
river
chicken
middle
environment
supermarket
hitch-hike
vinegar
chemists
pudding
written
brick
telephone
capital
civil servant
living room
guilty
witness
imagine
width

pills
live
lip
American
dentist
sin
ship
chips
rich
tin
still
river
kitchen
think
will
principal
prison
hill
slim
print
bin
inside
intelligent
six
with
film
which
bill
ladies
carried
rid
fit
enjoy
him
children
opposite
little
literature
dessert
quick
Christmas
picnic
deliver
fifth
sixth
politician
wind
mill
guitar
wrist
stick
sting

" ie "
families
cities

"a"
"e"
"o"
orange
video
women
sausage
English
village
pretty
luggage
eleven
courage
become
average
women
manager
thinnest
message
dessert
cottage
omelette
baggage
kitchen
garage
before
hostage
friendliest
image
oldest
manage
shortest
coverage
biggest
temperature
tallest
package
remember
damage
remind
savage
except
cabbage
excite
exciting
excited
example
excuse
expensive
experience
enjoy
forest
chicken
decide
enough
exam
knowledge
rely
college
youngest
richest
repeat
telegram
vinegar
behaviour
behave
behind
belong
deliver
poem
toilet
jacket
December
messenger
reply
passenger
celebrate
budget

/
"u"
busy

" ui "
build
built
biscuit

"i"
/

"u"
/

"a"
/

"e"
/

"o"
/

"u"
/

" ui "
/

..

/i/
Phonetic symbol and words
/i/

/i/

/i/

/i/

"i"
disk
ship
in

"y"
happy
very
many
only
busy
country
pretty
angry
chiefly
already
library
empty

" ey "
money
monkey
honey
turkey

" ee "
coffee

Phonetic symbols and words

/

"o"
hot
not
long
doctor
orange
stock
dog
often
sorry
omelette
tomorrow
job
on
from
rock
stop
wrong
shot
lock
foreign
strong
lost
lot

often
college
coffee
bottle
borrow
pot
bottom
song
got
box
lock
strong
gone
cod
frog
shop
cot
shopping
holiday
sorry
fog
sock
blond

"a"
what
want
watch
wash
washbasin
yacht
wallet
wasnt

" au "
because
sausage
Australia

" ou "
cough

God
knowledge
moral
Scottish
everybody
trolley

belong
forest
along
oclock
October

"o"

"a"

" au "

" ou "

... . . . .. . . .

Phonetic symbols and words

/

"u"
sugar
February
put
full
push
bull
education
pull
butcher
bush
fulfill
pudding

" oo "
look
book
stood
notebook
wood
wool
cook
foot
good
good-looking
took
football
cookie
cooker

"o"
woman
wolf
bosom

" ou "
could
couldnt
should
shouldnt
would
wouldnt

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"a"
r
hard
bark
sharp
artist
car
grass
glass
arm
calm
father
parcel
tomato
ask
cant
France
dark
bar
park
start
large
scarf
lark
glassess
sardine
party
guard

" au "
aunt
laugh

cap
carpet
fast
faster
far
afternoon
password
cart
part
half
castle
pardon
casual
chance
March
farm
jazz
class
dance
are
past
path
calf
bath
supermarket
parking
garage

" ea "
heart

/
" er"
clerk

Phonetic symbols and words

/

"u"
turn
church
Thursday
nurse
surname
burn
murder
murderer
curl
curly

"i"
bird
shirt
dirty
skirt
birthday
girl
first
third
firm
sir

"o"
word
work
world
worse
the worst
worm
workshop

"e"
her
verb
dessert
service
term
person
refer
perfume
version
German

" ea "
learn
early
learned
heard
earth
earn

" ou "
journey

fur
purse
turtle
furniture
Turk
hurt
turkey
purple

thirty
thirsty
stir
thirteen
thirteenth
thirtieth

perfect
nervous
jersey
external
fertile
certain
serve
civil servant
certainly

Phonetic symbols and words

/

/
" ea "

bcdegptv
eat
meat
please
league
read
steal
leave
seat
beach
read
sea
team
meal
speak
breathe
east
bean
mean
jeans
weak
reason
bead
peach
leap
peace
repeat
lead

" ea "

" ee "
see
three
free
tree
Greece
meet
seen
sheep
feet
wheel
cheese
knee
bee
sleep
feed
reed
feel
teenager
sweets
thirteen
fourteen
fifteen
sixteen
seventeen
eighteen
succeed
deep

"e"
she
he
me
be
cathedral
we
reality
these
previous
scene
scenary

" ey "
key
valley

" ei "
receive
receipt

" ie "
piece
field
achieve
thief
thieves
shield
priest
chief
chiefly
thirtieth

"i"
ski
police
machine
sardine
litre

" ee "

"e"

" ey "

" ei "

" ie "

"i"

. Phonetic symbols and examples

"o"
sport
forty
born
for
sort
or
bored
more
short
lord
pork
form
horse
cork
corkscrew
port
boring
corner
cornflakes
store
fork
morning
worn
divorce

" oo "
door
floor
door
poor

" ou "
four
your
youre
bought
brought
of course
nought
brought
ought
court
course
fourth
resources

" oa "
board
abroad

"a"
fall
small
salt
talk
ball
all
war
call
hall
also
alright
although
walk
quarter
water
warm
almost
already
wardrobe
walkman

" au "
caught
fault
daughter
taught
August
audition
author
authority
autumn
auction
sauce
sauna
saucer

" aw "
saw
dawn
law
draw
drawer
strawberries
lawn
withdraw
awful
jaw
straw
paw

"o"

" oo "

" ou "

" oa "

"a"

" au "

" aw "

Phonetic symbols and words

/ u: /

/ u: /

" oo "
"u"
zoo
q-u-w
boot
June
room
flu
cool
rule
tool
food
school
afternoon
smooth
rooster
root
too
fool
moon
pool
spoon
shoot
soon
tooth
use / ju:z /
choose
poodle
honeymoon
toothbrush
bridegroom

/ u: /

/ u: /

/ u: /

/ u: /

/ u: /

"o"
two
do
move
who
movie
tomb

" oe "
shoe

" ui "
juice
fruit
suit
suitable
grapefruit
tracksuit

" ou "
soup
route
group
you
through

" ue / ew "
true
blue
tissue
clue
glue
queue
draw - drew
knew
fly - flew
Jew
corkscrew
crew
withdraw - withdrew
corkscrew

" oo "

"u"

"o"

" oe "

" ui "

" ou "

" ue / ew "

/ u: /

/ u: /

/ u: /

/ u: /

/ u: /

/ u: /

/ u: /

Diphthongs

. Phonetic symbols and words

"i"
time
child
night
ninety
bike
hi
inside
title
shine
tired
tidy
ice
wine
kind

while
wild
find
kite
lion
tights
ride
price
prize
pride
mind
remind
climb
file

"y"
my
why
cry
fly
type
fry
by
try
rhyme
rely
reply
recycled

/ /

" ye "
bye
dye
rye

/
" ie "
tie
lie
die
pie

" ey / ei "
eye

neither
either
height

" uy "
buy

write
fine
sight
like
five
nice
life
might
frighten
fright
frightened
environment
hitch-hike
nine
ninth
nineteen
wife
housewife
alive
bride
bridegroom

final
finance
excite
smile
bright
exercise
right
invite
polite
highway
library
sign
ninety
Friday
dining room
organization
mild
mine
rice

"i"

"y"

" ye "

" ie "

/ /

Phonetic symbols and words

/

" ow "
how
now
town
crowd
cow
down
allow
brown
shower
flower
down
clown
power
owl
tower

" ey / ei "

" ou "
about
trout
round
pound
hour
house
our
noun
count
countable
sound
mouth
south
shout grito
cloud
blouse
flour
around
found
trouser
scout
without
doubt
mouse
mountain
sauna ( / o: / )

" uy "

Phonetic symbols and words

/

" ea "
break
steak
great

" ei "
eight
eighty
eighth
neighbour
reign
veil
sleigh
weigh
weight

" ey "
they
grey
prey

"a"
a-h-j-k
age
name
grape
tale
made
page
date
take
change
plane
surname
cornflakes
shape
shave
trace
cake
face
danger
awake
change
champagne
lake
embrace
replace
ache - dolor
lake
teenager
baby
mistake
behaviour
Asia
Australia
radio
celebrate
decorate
grapefruit
sunbathe
strange

" ai "
tail
rain
Spain
wait
train
straight
again
sail
sailor
aim
stain
chain
snail
main
e-mail
afraid
railway
maid
explained

" ay "
play
say
way
day
pay
stay
May
bay
highway
subway
railway
today
birthday
always

" ea "

" ei "

" ey "

"a"

" ai "

" ay "

. Phonetic symbols and words

" ere "

where
there

" ear "

bear
pear
wear
tear

" ei "
their
theyre

"a"
parent

" are "

rare
care
share
square
beware
are
share

" air "

chair
air
airport
fair
airline
airplane
pair

" aer "

aeroplane
aerial
aerobics
aerosol

fare
mare
stare
glare
spare

stair
hair
affair
despair
repair
hairy
air-conditioning
aircraft

Phonetic symboland words (examples)

/

"o"
o
no
video
notebook
coke
0 (number)
close
home
hope
bone
note
phone
potato
holy
smoke
broke
clothes
also
hotel
ocean
almost
brochure
wardrobe
nobody
October
whole

dont
ago
show
so
broke
cold
nose
ghost
tomato
soldier
only
note
telephone
hotel
go
hello
old
folk
clothes
over
alone
poem
poet
those
November
comb
"o"

/
/
/
" ou / oe / oo "
" ow "
shoulder
know - known
tour
tomorrow
although
window
though
bowl
soul
elbow
dough
grow
low
toe - toes
own
goes
owner
snow
moor
show
narrow
pillow
shadow
yellow
slow
slowly

" ou / oe / oo "

/
" oa "
road
boat
coal
coast
soap
coat
toast
float
load
raincoat
throat

" ow "

" oa "

/
" ew "
sew

" ew "

Phonetic symbols and words

"e+r"
period
material

" ee + r "
beer
engineer
cheer
deer
sheer
peer

" ere / r "

here
were
mere
experience

" ea / ear "

ear
near
fear
hear
dear
idea
beard
real
year

" ie + r "
pierce
fierce

rear
diarrhea
earring

Phonetic symbols and words (examples)

/

" oi "
join
coin
choice
oil
toilet
boil - boiled
poison
point
noisy
noise
voice
disappointed

" oy "
boy
joy
toy
enjoy
royal
employed
unemployed

Phonetic symbols and words

/

" ur / ure / uer / our / oor "

plural
pure
sure
tour
tourist
Europe
cure
poor
boor
truer

Consonants
CONSONANT UNVOICED
-

Phonetic symbol and words

/t/

/t/

/t/

"t"
between
empty
night
light
toilet
tie

" tt "
pretty
little

" - ed "
embarrassed
stressed
depressed

Phonetic symbol and words

/k/

/ k/

/ k/

/ k/

/ k/

"k"
cook
keep
cake
succeed

"c"
biscuit
cat
insect
ecology
cook
actor
case
credit card
cake
clear
activity
actor
actress
actually
action
active
circle
clap
class
climb
auction
picture

" cc "
occasion

" ck "
check
black
back
quick
chicken
pick

" ch "
psichology
chemist
character
characteristic
echo
ache
stomach
choir / kwaier /
chorus
Christ
Christian
Christmas

"k"

"c"

" cc "

" ck "

" ch "

/k/

/ k/

/ k/

/ k/

/ k/

Phonetic symbols and words

/

" ch "
church
chair
China
teacher
cheap
rich
children
chips
chocolate
lunch
cheese
teacher
much
change
chin
chain
change
charge
channel
choice
chalk
such
each

" tch "

watch
kitchen
butcher
fetch
matches
catch
witch

"t"
picture
furniture
lecture
culture
future
fortune
nature

Phonetic symbols and words

/f/
" f - fe "
foot
first
Friday
fifty-four
fifty-five
after
before
often
lift
wife
calf
fish
find
forget
famous
have to

/f/

/f/

/f/

" ff "
off
coffee
official
office
offer
officer
traffic
different
staff
stiff

" ph "
photo
phone
phonetic
photographer
phrasal verb
alphabet
alphabetical
phrasal verb
geography
nephew

" gh "
laugh
cough
enough
tough
rough
roughly

Phonetic symbols and words

/

" th "
think
thank
thick
thirteenth
thing
thunder
thin
throat
cathedral
theatre
bathroom
birthday
Thursday
thirty
thirsty
third
path
earth
worth
breath
death

" th "
fourth
fifth
ninth
three
thanks
thousand
bath
maths
both
truth
cloth
mouth
tooth
through
method
south
depth
wealthy
thumb
twelfth
hundredth

these
those
they
there
brother
other
though
weather
their
without
with
withdraw
although
breathe
clothes

then
the
mother
together
another
this
that
father
either
though
clothes
leather
smooth
sunbathe
feather

Phonetic symbols and words

/s/

/s/

/s/

/ iz /

" s - es - se "
sorry

" ss "
lesson

" c / ce / sc "
nice

" es "
houses

six
its
speak
sin
seat
soft
sensitive
September
second
sight
sort
shirts
sister
sailor
snow
smell
sit
cups
monkeys
cats
packs
bus
sausage
sports
cornflakes
civil servant
mouse
biscuits
course
business
castle
nurse
society
this
books
Saturday
of course
boots
socks
useful
because
reefs
carrots
tissues
bikes
suitcase
shops
snakes
success
paths
mouths
cakes
clocks
plates
chips
books

Phonetic symbols and words

possible
stress
miss
glass
grass
dress
class
classroom
classical
classmate
cassette
darkness
press
tasteless
business
ass
association
shop assistant
business
depress
crossroad
password

cinema
city
police
rice
parcel
face
sentence
scientist
price
circus
cigarette
circle
citizen
civil servant
ice
race
pence
bus
centre
cell
CD
CD player
ceiling
bicycle
December
chance
association
society
finance
experience
place
produce
juicy
pencil
piece
licence
slice
advice
juice
recipe - receta
embrace
replace
trace -huella

boxes
oranges
matches
dishes
buses
roses
Alices
Joices
Dess
Rosss
brushes
finishes
watches
blotches
kisses
bushes
dresses
languages
villages
glasses
sunglasses
sandwiches
gases
beaches
wishes
dances
watches
Nicholass
noses
faces

" sh "
shoe
she
short
wash
shop
finish
washing
push
ship
crash
shirt
washbasin
wish
shut
cushion
shave
shadow
sheep
fashion
fish
shy
Spanish

"s"
sure
sugar
mansion
insure

" ss "
tissue
mission
passion
assure

" ti / ci / si / c "
nationality
station
communication
station
precious
special
delicious
protection
organization
reduction
ocean
partial
auction
Asia

" ch - chu "

machine
champagne
brochure

CONSONANT VOICED
Phonetic symbol and words
/b/

/b/

"b"
between
baby
basketball
ball
beach
bus
job

" bb "
rubbish

Phonetic symbol and words

/d/

/d/

/d/

"d"
day
dead
made
down
study
dawn
dictionary
instead

" -dd- "

middle

" -ed "

frightened
middle-aged
married
bored
worried
tired
get engaged
bad tempered
recycled

Phonetic symbols and words

/h/

/g/

"h"
who
he
hand
humour
behind
behave
hat
help
husband
here
hospital
hungry
his
her
how
hight
hotel
perhaps

" g / gg "
garden
grey
dog
sugar
green
guitar
good
golf
great
again
angry
flag
egg
leg
God
game
gap
guess
jogging
big
get
gun
guest
bag

Phonetic symbols and words

/

"j"
Japan
Jew / u: /
juice
jeans
January
June
July
Japanese
just
jump
jam
job
journey
journalist
just
jacket
joke
jail
judge
jogging
jaw
jazz
subject
jumper

" ge "
orange
page
manager
change
age
village
college
danger
orphanage
damage
huge
urge
middle-aged
arrangement
strange
get engaged
message
marriage
coverage
garage
cabbage

"g"
engine
engineer
Germany
imagine
genius
gentleman
energy
giraffe
general
passenger
gym
geography
logical
technology
dangerous

" di "
soldier

" dge "

edge
bridge
fridge
knowledge
judge
budget

"j"

" ge "

"g"

" di "

" dge "

Phonetic symbols and words

/v/

/v/

"v"
very
vowel
seven
have
five
love
move
give
river
travel
sensitive
verb
eleven
over
save
believe
drive
movie
movement
arrive

"f"
of

Phonetic symbols and words

/

" th "
think
thank
thick
thirteenth
thing
thunder
thin
throat
cathedral
theatre
bathroom
birthday
Thursday
thirty
thirsty
third
path
earth
worth
breath
death

" th "
fourth
fifth
ninth
three
thanks
thousand
bath
maths
both
truth
cloth
mouth
tooth
through
method
south
depth
wealthy
thumb
twelfth
hundredth

these
those
they
there
brother
other
though
weather
their
without
with
withdraw
although
breathe
clothes

then
the
mother
together
another
this
that
father
either
though
clothes
leather
smooth
sunbathe
feather

Phonetic symbols and words

/z/
" s - se - es "
Tuesday

/z/

/z/

/ iz /

lose

" z - ze "
zoo

" es "
houses

Wednesday
Thursday
lies
digs
knees
music
Judys
Joes
Harrys
Sams
Susans
Marys pen
easy
is
days
eyes
wife - wives
thief - thieves
knife- knives
half- halves
calf - calves
life - lives
shelf - shelves
self - selves
ourselves
mauntains
pubs
bags
loves
Johns
president
sometimes
opposite
windows
jeans
cities
families
studies
ladies
onions
keys
dreams
bees
caves
birds
flowers
trees
songs
close

comes
wise
fees
nose
boys
has
Marys
Anas
Annes
Bobs
Sods Law
butchers
was
clothes
rose
propose
business
pens
use
these
please
pens
rise
busy
cousin
raise
beds
shelves
songs
cheese
rings
chairs
those
these
trousers
shoes
always
use
potatoes
tomatoes
because
business
jobs
pears
customs
mornings
walls
friends

zero
zone
prize
citizen
crazy
zoom
zoo
zebra
zigzag
zodiac
zone
zip
zip code
dizzy
lazy

boxes
oranges
matches
dishes
buses
roses
Alices
Joices
Dess
Rosss
brushes
finishes
watches
blotches
kisses
bushes
dresses
languages
villages
glasses
sunglasses
wishes
beaches
gases
horses

Phonetic symbols and words

/

"s"
pleasure
unusual
usually
treasure
casual
measure

" sio "

television
occasion
explosion
conclusion
confusion
vision
decision
revision

" ge "
garage
massage
luggage
courage

Phonetic symbols and words (examples)

/

"n"
think
uncle
thanks
drink
bank
anger
monkey
finger
ink
penguin
pink

/
/
" ng "
sing
morning
thing
tongue
singing
wing
painting
saying
young
singer
ping-pong
long
wrong
strong
songs
language
interesting
belong
bring

Phonetic symbols and words

/h/

/g/

"h"
who
he
hand
humour
behind
behave
hat
help
husband
here
hospital
hungry
his
her
how
hight

" g / gg "
garden
grey
dog
sugar
green
guitar
good
golf
great
again
angry
flag
egg
leg
God
game

hotel
perhaps

gap
guess
jogging
big
get
gun
guest
bag

Phonetic symbol and words

/l/

/ l/

"l"
alone
London
leave
play
love
plural
lovely
life
liar

" ll "
full
valley
volleyball
ball

Phonetic symbol and words

/r/

/r/

"r"
agree
true
run
rich
ruler
write
wrote

" rr "
carry
marry
married

Phonetic symbols and words

/w/

/w/

/w/

/w/

"w"
will
we
when
word
work
world
welcome
wood
west
what
where
won
awake
well
wet
twice
twenty

"w"
water
worry
twenty-one
window
Wednesday
west
why
wish
while
away
warm
where
white
withdraw
always
switch
twelve

"o"
once
twenty-one
one

"u"
quick
question
quiet
quickly
queen
penguin

. Phonetic symbols and words

/j/

/j/

/j/

/ ju: /

"y"
"e"
"i"
"u"
" ew "
youth Europe onion population
few
young
million
January
new
yard
billion
nephew
yes
millionaire
newspaper
your
behaviour
know - knew
year
stew
yellow
stewardess
yesterday
steward
yet
lawyer
beyond
yacht

/ ju: /

/ ju: /

"u"
reduce
computer
university
student
use
music
usually
situation
amusing
uniform
avenue
useful
useless
huge
Tuesday

" eau / eue "

beautiful

queue

Silent letters .

pf

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Phonetics: silent letters

a is silent in secretary - head - bread - deaf - meant - mountain - marriage - restaurant

b is silent in climb - climber - thumb - plumber - debt - lamb - bomb - tomb - comb -

subtle - doubt - doubtful c is silent in scissors - muscle - blackguard - yacht - indict - scene - scenary ch is silent in yacht d is silent in Sandwich - Wednesday - handkerchief - handbag e is silent in every - camera - Tuesday - Wednesday - pirate - more - have - give - oven different - interested - opera - lonely - desperate - temperature
f is silent in stiff - cuff - scoff - stuff g is silent in sign - gnaw - gnome - phlegm - champagne - talking - saying gh is silent in straight - taught - high - sigh - sight - might - night - weight - neighbour thought - bought - thought - through - brought - although - ought - sleigh highway h is silent in what - heir - ghost - exhausting - exhibition - honest - honour - hour - who
i is silent in business - fashion - cushion - medicine - aspirin k is silent in know - knee - knock - knife - knit l is silent in talk - folk - salmon - should - half - should - would - could - calf - calm m is silent in mnemonic n is silent in hymn - autumn o is silent in chocolate - leopard - jeopardy p is silent in psalm - pneumatic - cupboard - receipt - psychology r is silent in far - sure - here - work - garden - person - yesterday - upstairs - near myrrh - dark - horse - word - tired - where - there - are - iron - later more - A single " r " is usually silent between two vowels : are s is silent in isle - aisle - viscount - mess - island t is silent in listen - castle - often - fasten - thistle - mortgage u is silent in build - guild - plague - biscuit -

w is silent in whole - write - sword - write - two - answer - wrong - dawn y is silent in prayer - mayor z is silent in rendezvous -

Phonetic symbols and words

Third person singular " s " endings :
/z/
sonora + s

/s/
sorda

/ iz /

+s

live - lives
play - plays
study- studies
rub - rubs
tell - tells
read - reads
go - goes
run - runs
agree-agrees
lie - lies
come-comes
beg - begs
love - loves
sail - sails
climb-climbs
rain - rains
ring - rings
do - does
wear - wears
need - needs
try - tries
call - calls
do - does
spend - spends
put - puts
travel - travels
sell - sells
order - orders
drive - drives
stand - stands
ring - rings
listen - listens
stay - stays
deliver - delivers
repair - repairs

work - works
make-makes
ask-asks
stop - stops
cook - cooks
walk - walks
write - writes
thank - thanks
make - makes
knock -knocks
laugh - laughs
sit - sits
get - gets
hate - hates
invite - invites
want - wants
jump - jumps
look - looks
wrap - wraps
smokes
paint - paints
cut - cuts
hope - hopes

dance- dances
kiss-kisses
pass - passes
catch - catches
wish-wishes
use - uses
wash- washes
change - changes
watch - watches
finish - finishes
practice - practices
relax - relaxes
miss - misses
manage - manages
buzz - buzzes
relax - relaxes
notice - notices
close - closes

/z/

/s/

/ iz /

Phonetic symbols and words

The past of the regular verbs ( - ed )

-ed = / d /
sonora + -ed

-ed = / t /
sorda + -ed

arrive - arrived
change - changed
call - called
marry - married
die - died
seem - seemed
beg - begged
open - opened
play - played
live - lived
agree - agreed
/z / please - pleased
move - moved
frighten-frightened
allow - allowed
join - joined
stay - stayed
study - studied
smile - smiled
save - saved
love - loved
rain - rained
climb - climbed
rob - robbed
rub - rubber
breathe-breathed
seem - seemed
dry - dried
use - used
discovered
worry - worried
destroy - destroyed
survive - survived
travel - travelled
enjoy - enjoyed
order - ordered
arrange - arranged
deliver - delivered
receive - received
sew - sewed - sewn
offer - offered

watch - watched
pack - packed
type - typed
work - worked
like - liked
wash - washed
hope - hoped
cook - cooked
stop - stopped
finish-finished
laugh - laughed
wish - wished
kiss - kissed
ask - asked
push - pushed
help - helped
drop - dropped
walk - walked
pass - passed
produce-produced
crash - crashed
jump - jumped
introduced
smoke - smoked
wrap - wrapped
trap - trapped
reach - reached
sunbathe- sunbathed

-ed = / id
-t / -d

rent - rented
land - landed
wait - waited
start - started
hate - hated
need - needed
treat - treated
depend - depended
paint - painted
assist - assisted
intend - intended
record - recorded
collect - collected
want - wanted
need - needed
visit - visited
waste - wasted
invite - invited
suggest-suggested
arrest - arrested
transport - transported
celebrate - celebrated
decorate- decorated
prohibit - prohibited
add - added

Pronunciation ( letter " i " )

Name:

Date:

Course:

- Read these words and pay attention to its pronunciation:

Group 1 -

: his - it - big - is - sing - dictionary - many

Group 2 -

: my - right - night - ninety - bike - hi - ice

Group 3 -

: bird - thirty - birthday - girl - first

- Which groups do these words go in? - ( Write: 1 - 2 - 3 )

1

- video

- shirt

- wine

- Its

- kind

- dirty

- write

- English
- third

- Italy

- tie

- Brazil

- sit

- skirt

- why

- like

- in
- milk

- five

- sir

- bye

- think

- six

- lie

- live

- with
- firm

- cry
- might

- ship

- time

- river

- build

- rich

- life

. Pronunciation ( letter " a " )

Name:

Date:

Course:

- Read these words and pay attention to its pronunciation:

Group 1 -

: am - cat - Japan - bag - thanks - packet - fat - that

Group 2 -

: hard - artist - car - grass - arm - calm - father

Group 3 -

: about - Its a - Saturday - Japan - grammar - cassette - woman

Group 4 -

: fall - small - saw - all

- Which groups do these words go in? - ( Write: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 )

1

- grandmother

- tomato

- man

- ball

- park

- are

- cathedral

- tall
- call

- half

- bad

- accident

- apple

- dawn

- happy

- hand

- start
- America

- again

- bank

- dark

- war

- March

- talk

- have

- walk
- sat

- strawberries

- hat

- can

- ask

- cant

- Brazil

- dance

- warm
. . Pronunciation ( letter " e" )
Name:

Date:

Course:

- Read these words and pay attention to its pronunciation:

Group 1 help - yes

: beg - web - lend - fell - American - bell - sell - tell - bed - less - pencil - ten - spell -

Group 2 over - never

: mother - perhaps - rubber - them - secret - accident - nevertheless - paper - president -

Group 3 : refer - service - term - person - perfume - her - verb - version - perfect - nervous external - jersey
Group 4 seen - sleep

: see - he - three - medium - weekend - extreme - week - equal - female - be - evening -

- Which groups do these words go in? - ( Write: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 )

. Greece

- dessert

- get

- feel

- we

- herself

- later

- when

. egg

- even

- paper

- German

- welcome

- secretary

- need

French
. expert

- these

- brother

- hers

- she

- yesterday

- red

-the

tennis
. very

- see

- worker

- desk

- me

- letter

- men

- species

twelve

Pronunciation ( letter " u " )

Name:

Date:

Course:

- Read these words and pay attention to its pronunciation:

Group 1
Group 3

rubber - understand - under - fun -

Group 2

but
hurt - purse - church - curl murderer

Group 5

suply - surprise - measure adventure

Group 4
Group 6

flu - rule

busy
put - bull - education - bush pudding

- Which groups do these words go in? - ( Write: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6)

. cup

-Thursday

-August

-husband

-nurse

-turtle

-crush

suppose
. busy

- autumn

. number

- burn

-picture

-push

- ugly

- purple

- sun

- sugar

-June

-gun

-must

-Sunday

- February

-surname

-pull
. club

-full

-furniture

-Saturday

-bus

-curly

-lunch

-Russian

-butcher