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!