PRONUNCIATION – VOWELS AND DIPHTHONGS Which of the following words include these sounds? /i:/
Keep – night – lit – late – fry
/i/
Feet – sit – night – keen – sigh
/e/
Gate – Feel – bell – grass – fate
/ / (schwa)
Book – street – name – father – sun
/3:/
Feed – bad – food – fate – bird
/a:/
Water – night – cat – stars – paper
/^/
Fat – bet – look - food – cut
/ae/
Late – cat – laugh – best – tea
/o/
Room – dog – card – word- soil
/o:/
Father – glass – law – hot – world
/u/
Cut – work – love – Food – Book
/u:/
Food – luck – lost – burn – first
/ei/ - Feed – bed – food – fight – say /ai/
Said – read – high – food – says
/oi/
Should – boy – though - blood – so
/ u/ schwa + u
through – there – here – so – hot
/au/
Now – hair – face – tour – lower
/i /
There – seed – hair – late – here
/e /
There – say – get – first – shoulder
/u /
Tower – tour – two – tooth – hand
Put the following words next to the correct word according to the underlined sound: Steam – flood – turn – asleep – sleep – flew – should – saw – cough – heart – bread – flat – busy – poor – shirt – path – stamp – system – teacher – does – shoe – said – wood - hot SHEEP: SHIP: BED: BAD: FATHER: BIRD: POT: CAUGHT: PUT: BOOT: CUT: CAMERA: Odd one out: Fruit – suit – juice – built Half – have – has – ham Horse – history – story – cord Look – good – foot – blood Country – young – youth – couple Oven – colour – son – gone Talk – chalk – calm – fall Heart – nothing – love – come Bird – word – bed – earth Look – pool – full – foot
Dog – fox – cough - caught Now – voice – out – cow Idea – volunteers – where – near Hear – beer – chair – year Enjoy – boy – point – brown Asked – looked – worried – hooked Goes – introduces – loses – dresses Group the following words according to the underlined sounds: Each – blue – tray – flight – worry – house – straw – turn – silly – found – learn – caught – ill – quite – just – free – eight – June – bee – ugly – soup – sixty – shirt – ought – tale – bicycle - mouse /u:/ /ei/ /ai/ /^/ /i:/ /au/ /o:/ /3:/ /i/ Bring – box – artist – mother – stamp – daughter – thirdly – sugar – breakfast – blue – police woman /e/ /o/ /u/ /i:/ /^/
/i/ schwa /ae/ /o:/ /a:/ /3:/ /u:/ Identify the diphthong sounds in each word and write the word next to the correct symbol: Theatre – care – security – mountain – lake – nose – height – choice /au/ /ai/ /e / / u/ /oi/ (j) /u / /ei/ /i /
Which group do these words belong to? Group 1 : /i/ (is – sing – it – big) Group 2: /ai/ ( my – right – bike – nice) Group 3: /3:/ ( bird – first – girl/ video
shirt
winw
kind
dirty
write
Italy
Tie
sit
skirt
rwhy
like
live
life
Rich
cry
river
build
might
ship
five
And these ones? Group 1 : /ae/ (cat – bag – that – fat) Group 2 : /a:/ (car – grass – arm – father) Group 3 : schwa ( about – Japan – grammar – woman) Group 4 : /o:/ ( fall - small – all – saw) grandmother cathedral happy war hat
tomato tall hand March can
man half start talk ask
ball bad again have dance
park apple bank walk warm
are dawn dark sat
Find the homophones of these words: Flour – bare – die – sell – mined – their/they’re – night – red – brake – aisle / I’ll – son – passed Hear – wood – aloud – knows – dear - whether Read
Past
Weather
There
Here
Deer
Would
Knight
Flower Bear Dye Break Allowed Mind Isle Sun Cell Nose
Write /d/ /t/ or /id/ next to each verb in the past. Worked
lived
stopped
counted
targeted
Paid
listened
watched
painted
performed
Repeated
helped
asked
printed
warned
Write /s/ /z/ or /iz/ next to each word ( verb in the third person singular or word in the plural form) Watches
houses
cars
looks
knives
handkerchiefs
boxes
keys
envelopes
boys
wishes
walks
glasses
studies
works
jobs
practises
baths