English Pronunciation Course Pronunciation Handouts & Worksheets

No. 1: The International Phonetic – IPA Symbols

( واکه/مصوت) and Vowels ( همخوان/صامت) The IPA /ˌaɪ piː ˈeɪ/ is separated into two sections: Consonants (monophthongs, diphthongs & triphthongs).

TABLE 1: Consonants /ˈkɑːnsənənts/ of English

IPA Symbol Examples 1 /p/ pen 2 // back 3 // fan 4 // view 5 // male 6 // ten 7 // day 8 // night 9 // soon 10 // zoo 11 // let 12 // red 13 // key 14 // get 15 // hat 16 // wet, war, walk, warm, worm, swim, one /wʌn/, equal /ˈiːkwəl/, queen /kwiːn/ 17 /θ/ theta /θiːtǝ/ think, thick, thirsty, method, path, mouth, tooth 18 /ð/ eth /eð/ then, that, they, there, this, that, these, those, leather, father 19 /j/ yod /jɒd/ yet, you, yellow, youth, yard, year, yoke … cure, few, beauty onion /ˈʌnjən/, million /ˈmɪljən/, junior /ˈdʒuːnjər/ 20 /ʃ/ /ɛʃ/ ship, she, show, shoe, chandelier, push, machine, 21 /ʒ/ ezh /ɛʒ/ pleasure, measure, equation, usually, division, television, genre, seizure sabotage, massage 22 /ʧ/ chair, cheap, cherry, watch, teacher, picture, merchant 23 /ʤ/ jump, joke, jeep, age, large, 24 /ŋ/ eng /eŋ/ sing, ring, king, thing, wrong, long, young, strong, doing single /ˈsɪŋɡəl/, finger /ˈfɪŋɡər/, hungry /ˈhʌŋɡri/ 25 // loch (a lake in Scotland) 26 /ʔ/ (glottal stop) button (in American English) uh-oh /ˈʔʌ oʊ/ (a sound that you make when you have made a mistake, or when something bad is going to happen)

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TABLE 2: Vowels /ˈvaʊəlz/ of English

monophthongs /ˈmɑːnəfθɒ:ŋz / IPA Symbol Examples sheep, seed, seek, sleep, peel, knee, see, bee, be, key, refugee, employee 1 /i:/ leak, pea, sea, tea, peace, beat, bead, bean, league ceiling, receive, conceive … achieve, believe, field, piece athlete, complete, concrete, Irene, obese, Pete, Portuguese, Steve 2 /ɪ/ ship, lip, sit, bit, big, kick, women, beer, year, clear 3 // or /ɛ/ bed, bet, get, egg, any, many, vary, said, again, bear, health, breakfast, guest 4 /æ/ (ash) cat, bat, bad, man, pan, jam, patent (right to make an invention), laugh 5 /ɜ:/ or /ɝ/ bird, third, sir, girl, shirt, first, stir, hurt, purse, hurt, burn, turn, fur, word, work, worse, worst, heard, earn, fern, serve, early, her, serve, urge, 1) aˈbout, aˈgain, aˈrrive, aˈlive, aˈmount, aˈmount, aˈgree /ə/ (schwa 2) caˈnoe, baˈllon, suˈpport, suˈpply, ˈbeautiful, poˈlite, forˈget 6 /ʃwɑː/) 3) ˈtaken, ˈpencil, ˈmemory, ˈbreakfast 4) ˈsofa, ˈera /ˈɪrə/, ˈAsia /ˈeɪʒə/, ˈAfrica /ˈæfrɪkə/ 7 /ʌ/ (turned V, cut, but, hut, bud, gull, fun, love, dove, rough, luck, truck, just, run, uncle caret or wedge) much, month, lunch, cousin, one 8 /u:/ boot, soot, food, fool, two, shoe, canoe, sue, clue, glue, too, zoo 9 /ʊ/ book, look, cook, poor, wolf, put, sure, could, should, would, sugar 10 /ɔː/ four, more, born, thorn, short, port, forks, sport, cord, 11 /ɒː/ dog, talk, doll, all, law, paw, jaw, author 12 /ɑː/ arm, farm, barn, calm, heart, cart, park, box, hot, sock, fox, father, star diphthongs /ˈdɪfθɒ:ŋz/ 1 /aɪ/ I, buy, why, bye, eye, my, spy, pie, lie, fly, try, dry, high, sigh, mile, idea 2 /aʊ/ how, now, cow, bough, out, ouch, house, town, dowry 3 /eɪ/ make, fate, late, eight, wait, aim, vain, great, they, hey, bay, pray, play 4 /ɪə/ real, idea, Syria /ˈsɪriə/ 5 /oʊ/ boat, coat, float, note, home, phone, bone, bowel, sow, low, show, go, know 6 /əʊ/ (Br.E.) boat, coat, float, note, home, phone, bone, bowel, sow, low, show, go, know 7 /ɔɪ/ boy, toy, joy, oil, boil, soil, choice, noise 8 /ʊə/ (Br.E.) cure /kjʊə/, pure /pjʊə/ 9 /eə/ (Br.E.) hair /heə/, air /eə/, bear /beə/, pear /peə/, chair /tʃeə/ triphthongs /ˈtrɪfθɒ:ŋz/ 1 /aɪə/ diet /ˈdaɪət/, flyer /ˈflaɪər/, buyer, messiah /məˈsaɪə/, annihilate /əˈnaɪəleɪt/ 2 /aʊə/ towel, tower, shower, cower, flower, power, vowel, sour, coward, allowance 3 /eɪə/ player, layer, greyer 4 /oʊə/ slower, lower 5 /əʊə/ (Br.E.) slower, lower 6 /ɔɪə/ employer, destroyer, royal, loyal

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