Showing posts with label phonetic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label phonetic. Show all posts

Friday, 29 June 2018

The 'oo' sound (three ways)

//
food /fuːd/
moon /muːn/
boot /buːt/
balloon /bəˈluːn/
choose /tʃuːz/
school /skuːl/
soon /suːn/
zoom /zuːm/

/ʊ/
book /bʊk/
good /ɡʊd/
cook /kʊk/
look /lʊk/
foot /fʊt/
stood /stʊd/
understood /ˌʌndəˈstʊd/
wood /wʊd/
wool /wʊl/

/ʌ/
blood /blʌd/
flood /flʌd/

Sunday, 4 March 2018

Irregular plural nouns



child    /tʃaɪld/children    /ˈtʃɪldrən/
woman    /ˈwʊmən/women    /ˈwɪmɪn/
man    /mæn/men     /mɛn/
goose    /ɡuːs/geese    /ɡiːs/
mouse    /maʊs/mice    /maɪs/
foot    /fʊt/feet    /fiːt/
tooth    /tuːθ/teeth    /tiːθ/
cactus    /ˈkæktəs/cacti    /ˈkæktaɪ/
person    /ˈpɜːsən/people    /ˈpiːpəl/
ox    /ɒks/oxen    /ˈɒksən/

Wednesday, 28 February 2018

10 Most Difficult Words to Pronounce in English



1.- Comfortable   /ˈkʌmftəbəl/
 
2.- Walk    /wɔːk/
     Work   /wɜːk/

3.- Restaurant      /ˈrɛstəˌrɒŋ/

4.- Clothes      /kləʊðz/

5.- Island     /ˈaɪlənd/

6.- Dangerous     /ˈdeɪndʒərəs/

7.- Analysis      /əˈnælɪsɪs/

8.- Vegetable     /ˈvɛdʒtəbəl/

9.- Tooth     /tuːθ/
     Teeth      /tiːθ/

10.- Asked      /ɑːskt/

1.- These shoes are super comfortable
2.- I work for Google
     I walk to school every day
3.- What's your favourite restaurant?
4.- How often do you buy new clothes?
5.- The hotel is on the island
6.- I asked the teacher to explain the lesson
7.- Let's look at the analysis
8.- I love vegetables
9.-  You've got really nice teeth
10.- Have you asked him yet?

Friday, 16 February 2018

Phonetic Chart explained



Vowels:

seat
green
tree
sit
grin
fish
good
foot
pull
food
rule
shoe
head
beat
said
teacher
observer
about
girl
nurse
earth
walk
door
four
had
lamb
apple
cup
love
money
heart
dark
fast
hot
stop
want

Diphthongs:

year
beer
ear
they
bathe
way

pure
tourist
cure
joy
noise
choice
joke
vote
throw
chair
where
there
thigh
dice
my
vow
lounge
out

Consonants:

pull
stop
apple
bet
about
beer
tree
stop
want
door
food
said
teacher
chair
choice
joke
joy
lounge
walk
dark
cup
grin
green
girl
four
food
fish
observer
vow
vote
earth
thigh
throw
they
there
bathe
stop
sit
fast
observer
noise
president
shoe
fish
sure
casual
neasure
pleasure
money
lamb
my
grin
green
nurse
sing
english
drank
hot
head
heart
pull
love
rule
rule
grin
tree
want
way
where
year
yes
yellow