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FOCUS ON PRONUNCIATION 1

Unit 1: Vowel Overview

Unit 3: Wait, Wet, and Wit

Unit 2: Sleep and Slip

* friend

* best

* dead

* trend

* wet

* any

* pen

* breakfast

* said

* brevity

* feast

* these

* sheep

* cheap

* beat

* sleep

* feet

* keys

* eat

* steal

* fist

* this

* ship

* chip

* bit

* slip

* fit

* kiss

* it

* still

* pain

* taste

* eight

* obey

* date

* brave

* fame

* grain

* great

* paper

Your lips are spread.

Spread your lips

Relax your tongue, lips, and cheeks.

Your lips aren't spread.

Responses:

a. That's too bad. It's a terrible neighborhood.

b. That's too bad. He seemed so happy at that job.

* The computer chip was pretty cheap.

Alternating Vowels:

a. I've heard they make good pets.

b. I thought he was afraid of the water.

a. With water?

b. It's very smooth.

* Do your feet fit in those shoes? They look a bit small for you.

met

fed

read

meet

feed

read

a. Really? He deserved to get the most!

b. Is my name on it?

* This outfit goes perfect with these glasses.

Unit 4: Man and Men

Unit 5: Lock and Luck

Unit 6: Head, Had, Hut, and Hot

* blood

* bus

* zebra

* pencil

* country

* carrot

* come

* husband

* love

* enough

* awkward

* block

* lock

* clock

* raw

* start

* guard

* knowledge

* job

* popular

* friend

* best

* dead

* trend

* wet

* any

* pen

* breakfast

* said

* brevity

* bad

* aunt

* exam

* cat

* sandwich

* black

* laugh

* jacket

* past

* bland

Your mouth is open.

Your mouth is nearly closed.

The tip of your tongue is behind your lower teeth

Relax your tongue, lips, and cheeks.

(schwa)

Stressed and Unstressed Vowel Sounds

Help Homer find the Schwa's in these words with unstressed vowel sounds:

* far

* bar

* guard

* car

* card

* fur

* burr

* gird

* cur

* curd

* bad

* back

* axe

* can

* pat

* bed

* beck

* ex

* Ken

* pet

What are these?

* bandage

* vitamin

* lettuce

* pizza

* ketchup

* chicken

* soda

* orange

* potato

PENCIL

HAMBURGER

VANILLA

PEN - CIL

VA - NI- LLA

HAM - BUR - GER

PEN - CIL

VA - NI- LLA

HAM - BUR - GER

PEN - CIL

VA - NI- LLA

Help Scooby-Doo classify these minimal pairs under the right phonetic symbols:

* Choose some of your favorite minimal pairs and create a nice short story with them.

* burn

* had

* curve

* star

* and

* sax

* pan

* stir

* heart

* end

* barn

* flesh

* dart

* sex

* flash

* pen

* head

* dirt

* carve

* hurt

BE CREATIVE!

Unit 9: Cool, Could, and Cute

Unit 8: Boat, Bought, and Pot

Unit 7: Vowels followed by /r/

look

full

would

foot

bush

cook

good

bull

took

sugar

human

review

humid

punitive

cute

cucumber

future

numerous

introduce

news

* awkward

* block

* pot

* clock

* raw

* start

* guard

* knowledge

* job

* popular

Luke

choose

fool

flu

true

pool

moon

fruit

coo

drew

* boat

* joke

* focus

* open

* grow

* road

* know

* toe

* although

* sew

* pause

* loss

* fault

* call

* strong

* dawn

* thought

* bought

* broad

* law

Betty Botter bought a bit of butter.

The butter Betty Botter bought was a bit bitter,

ALTERNATING or SAME?

Look! The wolf howls at the moon.

You shouldn't put sugar in your soup.

Is it true Luke plays the flute?

and made her batter bitter.

A

But a bit of better butter makes her batter better.

S

A

S

Who could buy the two shoes?

To open the new door, just push or pull.

A

Did you choose the good boots, the jewelry or the blue suit?

So Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter,

S

A

S

A

better than her bitter butter.

* Same or different?

S

D

S

D

S

D

Now, her bitter batter was better.

Let's see more vowel sounds + /r/

/r/ + /l/ =

GIRL

WORLD

PEARL

Unit 10: Wide, House, and Boy

Unit 11: Consonant Overview

Unit 12: Beginning and Final Consonants

Final Consonant + Vowel

What is ASPIRATION?

Aspiration is a strong puff of air released from the mouth when we pronounce words with these consonant sounds at the beginning or when they are in the stressed syllable:

* vow

* round

* count

* bound

* crowd

* now

* brown

* bough

* drought

* house

* kind

* spy

* dye

* die

* eye

* height

* high

* buy

* aisle

* either

* boy

* koi fish

* voice

* toy

* loyalty

* spoil

* noise

* oil

* employ

* going

What a good idea!

(

* Is there ASPIRATION in the following words with /p/, /k/ and /t/?

Read the following phrases clearly:

* Red apple

* Look it up

* Not Anne

* What is it?

* Take it out

* Cook it all

* Put a sandwich in

* Hang on a minute

Final Consonant + Same (or similar) Consonant

Final Consonant + Different Consonant

(

Mole Station

* raise zombies

* big guy

Molestation

/z/ /z/

/g/ /g/

(

* peace sign

* pig cartoon

/s/ /s/

/g/ /k/

keep it short

(

* safe vacation

* black cat

/k/ /k/

/f/ /v/

Unit 14: TH sounds

Unit 15: pack, back, fan, van, and west

Unit 13: -ed Endings; and Flapped /t/ and /d/

Exception

TH SOUNDS

Voiceless

TH Sound

Voiced

TH Sound

/w/

*In some adjectives -ed is pronounced as a syllable even though the base word doesn't end in /t/ or /d/. Many of these base words end in /k/ or /g/:

/f/

/v/

Past Tense -ed Ending

RULE

/p/

/b/

Voiced

TH Sound

Voiceless

TH Sound

(voiced)

(voiceless)

When the BASE FORM of the verb ends in:

(voiced)

(voiceless)

*The pronunciation of these regular verbs depends on the last sound of the base form of the verb.

naked people

a two-legged monster

* strength

* length

* thanks

* warmth

* Thursday

* plinth

* theme

* three

* threat

* death

* something

* birth

Example:

* then

* them

* soothe

* with

* than

* brother

* mother

* father

* either

* feather

* this

* these

* that

* those

* together

* water

* where

* wine

* one

* well

* request

* effect

* favor

* after

* friend

* telephone

* van

* love

* video

* universe

* version

pronounce the ending:

* happy

* pace

* pack

* apple

* tap

* baby

* hobby

* bean

* biology

* rob

* hated

* hate

* Flapped /t/ and /d/:

* washed

* wash

* Some verbs are:

Read the following words aloud:

* listened

* listen

hated, waited, added, ended, admitted, fitted, knitted, accepted, decided, needed, invited, etc.

letter

middle

water

matter

leader

rider

needle

adding

tidy

data

Read the following sentences aloud:

RULE

EXCEPTIONS!

All /t/ and /d/ sound like a voiced sound called "flap" or "Fast D" The symbol for the flap is:

When the BASE FORM of the verb ends in:

Famous Vincent, the very vivacious vampire, visited his favorite friend, Francis, the vegetarian veterinarian vacationing in Valentine Valley, full of elephants.

* Thailand (Country)

* Thai (Nationality)

* Thames (River)

* months (plural)

I thought of thinking of thanking you.

The thirty thousand thieves thought they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday.

They threw three thick things.

Not these things here, but those things there.

While we were walking, we were washing washers wash Washington's windows with warm washing water.

Peter batted better than Pat poured butter, so Peter told Pat to buy pie pans before Peter bought butter plates.

pronounce the ending:

Many times, the flap creates homophones. In American English, these words are pronounced the same because of the flap:

* Flaps and Homophones:

* Some verbs are:

1. When I must choose between coffee and tea, I prefer the latter.

2. John used the ladder to climb onto the roof.

robbed, dragged, breathed, believed, used, sabotaged, judged, filmed, frightened, wingged, remembered, spelled, etc.

developed, asked, frothed, coughed, crossed, washed, watched, etc

1. I was putting one foot in front of the other, like a machine.

2. Bread pudding with raisins and sauce is delicious.

1. May I have a liter of milk, please?

2. The leader of the tour took them into the next room.

These rules also work with -ed adjectives

´

r

/ g

l /

´

r

/ p

l /

TO SOCK

far

heart

car

hard

start

guard

Press your lips together.

Vibration in your throat.

PUPPY

BAG

BOWL

or

From

to

COT

COLD

BALL

FALL

* Words that have

:

* paint

* pull

* pen

or

or

BUG

Last night, my dad had a terrible accident.

I accidentally hit his head with a baseball bat.

I bet he will recover soon. Thank God he's not dead!

or

CUP

or

store

warn

door

four

war

or

CAP

or

´

r

/ w

ld /

The top teeth gently touch the lower lip.

TO SOAK

- blood

- couple

- flood

- touch

- duck

- once

- young

- cousin

- done

- love

- monkey

- what

- does

- honey

- lunch

- other

- nothing

TH sounds like /t/

or

POPPY

´

l /

r

/

her

bird

hurt

heard

work

journey

* attack

* tan

* tend

Start with your lips rounded, then unround.

Vibration in your throat.

No vibration in your throat.

CUT

* cat

* kid

* carrot

No vibration in your throat.

CALLED

1. cut

2. apple

3. apart

4. eater

5. attic

6. attack

7. import

8. decay

9. decadent

10. account

11. collide

12. pan

FOAL

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