Introduction to Pronunciation: Pair Practice

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Introduction to Pronunciation Pair Practice

• Prof. Shirley Santiago
• English 115-September 2006

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Work with a partner.

• Complete the following activities on the
  worksheet given to you by the teacher.

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Activity 1

• Look and pronounce these words with
• your partner
• gone lone done
• B. Answer these questions below.
• 1. What do these three words have in
  common?
• 2. Are these three words pronounced the
  same?

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• C. Look and pronounce these words with
• your partner
• shoe new too blue two view
• D. Answer these questions below.
• 1. What do these words have in common?
• 2. Are these words similar in spelling?

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• E. Now, complete the following sentence below
  based on what you have discovered.
• What you _________ in English, is not
• necessarily what you ________.

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Activity 2

• Read and understand
• There are 26 letters in the English alphabet, but
  there are about 39 sounds.

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• A. Look and pronounce these words with your
  partner
• rat cake ball calm
• B. Answer these questions below
• 1. What vowel do these words have in
• common?
• 2. Is the vowel pronounced the same in
• all of these words?

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• D. Now complete this sentence based on your
  observations
• S _ _ _ _ s and l_ _ _ _ _ s in English
  do not agree.

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Activity 3

• 1. Go to the following website
• http//www.antimoon.com/how/pronunc.htm
• Answer this question
• How can you learn to pronounce each English
  sound correctly?

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Read and answer these questons

• 2. Go to
• www.antimoon.com/how/pronunc-soundsipa.htm
• Answer these questions
• What does each symbol represent?
• Look at the table. The sounds are divided into
  two types. What are they?

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• 3. Go to
• http//www.antimoon.com/how/pronunc-trans.htm
• Answer these questions
• Where can you find phonetic transcriptions?
• Why is phonetic transcription necessary?

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Homework

• Read about the English Sound System and Front
  Vowel Sounds (See the handout.). Notice the
  different spellings for the vowel sounds.