Lesson 5 : The [ /ɜː/] sound as in "third"

Long Vowel [ /ɜː/]

Speech organs Position

Relaxed lips, Jaw halt-open and the center of the tongue just slightly rising


Words

Look at the mouth diagram to help you position your lips, tongue and jaw for the target sound

Highlighted bold letters pronounced as [ /ɜː/]


er - perjury, commercial, were, verse, infernal

ir - shirt, first, stir, girl, sir, bird

ear -yearn, earn, pearl

ur - urge, occur, murmuring, burden, furnace,burn

or - work, worse, world, word



sentences

Read each sentences aloud slowly at first, then as if you were telling it to someone in a natural way.


1. The girls in purple shirts were urged not to disturb sir Cuthbert.

2. This purple shirt is the worst in the world! I have no words!

3.we were working in the world bank at first; then we were transferred to the Commercial

Chambers in perth.

4. My boyfriend is a perfect nerd who makes his earnings when everyone else is yawning.

5. The girl heard that she came third in the world Championship as a hurdler.

6. Ursula observed that the boy wore a dirty purple jersey


Verses

When I was a lad I served a term

As office boy to an Attorney's firm.


The rich attorney was good as his word;

and every day my voice was heard

At the sessions or ancient Bailey

Lesson 4 : The [ / iː/] sound as in "feet"

Long Vowel [ /iː/ ]

Speech organs Position

Tip of the tongue is always behind the teeth, Jaw fairly closed, lips relaxed, not pulled back
and the front of the tongue high and forward in the mouth.


words


Look at the mouth diagram to help you position your lips, tongue and jaw for the target sound


Highlighted bold letters pronounced as [ / i: / ]


ee - Keel, feeble, seek, heed, See, peep, feel

e - he, evening, eve, demonise, Peter, these

ea - meat, tea, leave, jeans, please, team

ie - grief, field, relief, believe

ei - receipt, deceit, seize


sentences

Read each sentences aloud slowly at first, then as if you were telling it to someone in a natural way.


1. One evening, lying by the stream on the green grass, I dreamed of eating sweets.

2. Jean, have you been in a wheat field in leek ?

3. His demeanour seems to reveal the secret reasons for his deceit.

4. Demonised teenagers were pleased with their tea.

5. All legal furies seize you! No proposal seems to please you.

6. I believe my feet are really quite clean, evie



Verses

See - see - they drink

All thought unheeding,

The tea-cups click,

They are exceeding!

Lesson 3 : The [ /ɔː/] sound as in "horse"

Long Vowel /ɔː/

Speech organs Position

The lips are pushed forward but not as far forward - as in [u:] (lesson 2)
slightly rounded,but still a bit of tightness and tension.
The back of the tongue is rising at the back of the mouth,but not nearly as high as it would be with [ /u:/ ]


words

Look at the mouth diagram to help you position your lips, tongue and jaw for the target sound


Highlighted bold letters pronounced as [ /ɔː/]

or -storm, door , horse, corpulent, sordid, organic

aw -awe, law, dawn, lawn, sprawl

au - caustic, Paul, cautious

augh -naughty, haughty, daughter

a before l and al - almost, ball, wall, walk, talk, appalling, although


sentences

Look at the mouth diagram to help you position your lips, tongue and jaw for the target sound


1. George was falling asleep awkwardly in a sprawl.

2. The written laws ought to prevent thoughtless talks.

3. This appalling store was full of all sorts of ordinary shorts.

4. Maud's daughter Georgina was an awful daughter-in-law.

5. Four hundred and forty-four storks flying home in the storm.

6. Paul called out when he thought he saw his naughty daughter fall in the water.


Verses

As i was going by Mr King's yard'
I saw a man sawing,
And of all the sawyers i ever saw,
I never saw a saw saw like that saw
sawed.

Lesson 2: The / uː/ Sound as in "beauty"

Long Vowel / uː /

Speech organs Position

JAW is almost closed , lips pushed forward tightly into almost a whistle shape ,
at the same time the back of the tongue rises up towards the soft palate at
the back of the mouth



Words

Look at the mouth diagram to help you position your lips, tongue and jaw for the target sound

Highlighted bold letters pronounced as [ /uː/ ]

oo -bloom , food , smooth , loop , school , doom

o - lose ,move ,do , who ,improvement ,remove

ue , oe - blue ,glue ,shoes

ui -- fruit , juice ,cruise

u -- tune ,tube ,music ,curious ,tulips

ew - new ,few , mews



sentences

Listen and repeat.Read each sentences aloud slowly at first, then as if you were telling it to someone in a natural way.


1. Ruth felt in tune with the cool of a June evening and admired the beauty of the moon

2. There are quite a few music super-stars on the London tube.

3. The new blue shoes look beautiful with a navy blue coat.

4.On our cruise to Bermuda we played snooker with our schooner crew

5. Coolies are made from juicy fruits and sugar

6.The music tutor sang a tune on Tuesday for the duke .

7. A few beautiful tulips grew in the school garden in July.


Verses


I'd a swallow-tail coat of beautiful blue-

A brief which i bought off a booby

A couple of shirts and a collar or two,

And a ring that looked like a ruby!


We sail the ocean blue,

and our saucy ship's a beauty:

we are sober men and true,

and attentive to our beauty.

Lesson 1: The /ɑː/ Sound as in "car'

Long Vowel /ɑː/

Speech organs Position

Open your JAW ,relaxed lips ,flat tongue pulled back a little,

The sound made in the back of your mouth


Words

Look at the mouth diagram to help you position your lips, tongue and jaw for the target sound

Highlighted bold letters pronounced as [ /ɑː/ ]

ar ( r is silent ) ----- art , arms ,bar ,mark , arch , bark , dark

ear , er ,al ,au ----- heart ,Sergent, clerk ,derby ,psalm, laugh

a before s , n and th --- bath , castle ,fast ,glass ,disaster , rather , enhance


Sentences


1. The marble bird-bath was hidden in the tall grasses near the path.

2.let's park our car at Barbara's as the car park is rather far from the theater.

3.At last Margaret's anxiety passed and she chanced a disastrous dance with a laughing sergeant.

4.I'd rather take a chance and let my father drive me to the garage in his fast car.

5 .Hard-hearted Margaret was reading psalms in the dark .

6. As an office boy i made such a mark that i was given the post of a junior clerk

Verses

Barbara's car is a jaguar
and Barbara drives rather fast.
Castle ,farms and draughty barns,
She goes charging past

when i, good friends,was called to the bar,
I'd an appetite fresh and hearty'
But i was, as many barristers are,
an impecunious party....

The Speech Organs

Phonemes (44 sounds )

12 Pure Vowels


5 Long Vowels


1. /ɑː/ - tart, father

2. /uː/ - goose, two, blue, group

3. /ɔː/ - thought, law, north, war

4. /iː/ - fleece, sea, machine

5. /ɜː/ -nurse, stir, learn, refer


8 Short Vowels


6. /ə / (Neutral Vowel)- about, common, standard

7. / i / happy, radiate. glorious

8. / ʌ / strut, mud, love, blood

9. /ɒ / lot, odd, wash

10. /e / dress, bed, head, many

11. / ʊ / foot, good, put

12. / æ / trap, bad



8 Diphthongs

1. / əʊ / goat, show, no

2. / eɪ / face, day, break

3. /ɔɪ / choice, boy

4. / ɪə / near, here, weary

5. / aɪ / price, high, try

6. /ʊə / poor, jury, cure

7. / eə / square. fair, various

8. / aʊ / mouth, now


Consonants

24 Consonants

Plossives

1. / p / - pen, copy, happen

2. / b / - back, baby, job

3. /t / - tea, tight, button

4. /d / - day, ladder, odd

5. / k / -key, clock, school

6. / g / - get, giggle, ghost


Affricates

1. / tʃ / -church, match, nature

2. / dʒ / -judge, age, soldier


Fricatives

1. /f / -fat, coffee, rough, photo

2. /v / -view, heavy, move

3. / θ / -thing, author, path

4. / ð / -this, other, smooth

5. / s / -soon, cease, sister

6. / z / -zero, music, roses, buzz

7. / ʃ / -ship, sure, national

8. / ʒ / -pleasure, vision

9. / h / -hot, whole, ahead



Trills

1. / r / -right, wrong, sorry, arrange


Nasals

1. /m / -more, hammer, sum

2. /n / -nice, know, funny, sun

3. /ŋ / -ring, anger, thanks, sung


Laterals.

1. / l / -light, valley, feel


Approximants

1. / j / -yet, use, beauty, few

2. / w / -wet, one, when, queen

Get Rid of your Accent (Introduction)

The English alphabet has 26- letters, 5 Vowels and 21 consonants. These are enough to write English.As there is a difference between writing and Pronunciation in English,we need another alphabet representing all the speech sounds. Such an alphabet is called the phonetic alphabet.In order to pronounce English we need 44 sounds called Phonemes or distinctive sound unites.The English alphabet contains 44 Symbols, representing the 44 characteristics sounds of English .

Speech sounds can be broadly classified into Vowels and consonants.Vowels of the phonetic alphabet are quite different from the Vowels of the English Alphabet.They are 22 in number. 12 of them are Pure Vowels and the remaining 8 are called diphthongs. Diphthongs are otherwise called vowels-glides.

There are 24 consonants sounds in English .they belong to various classes and the students who do not specialize in phonetics need not study them in detail.Vowels and consonants arranged in a particular way give us syllables,and syllables into phrases and sentences.
speech consists of sentences.

By learning the Phonetic symbols, one will be able to refer to the Dictionary and find out the correct Pronunciation of words . we can get the correct or standard Pronunciation of English words from the English Pronunciation Dictionary by Daniel Jones or from any edition of the OXFORD DICTIONARY ....