Basic Tongue Position for English Vowels.
Front
(Central)
Back
High
ɪ
j
uw
Rounded
Mid
ej
ow
Low æ
a
American English Vowels
(tense vowels are underlined)
Front
(Central)
Back
ɪ
j
uw
ej
ow
oj
æ aj aw
a
Table of English Vowels.
9
Front Central
Back
High
i
:
ɪ
u:
ə
:
u
Mid
ə
e
:
Low
æ
ɑ
:
Sounds and their numbers
1
1. [
ɪ
:]
A friend in need is a friend indeed
2. [
ɪ
]
As fit as a fiddle
3. [e]
All is well, that ends well
4. [æ]
One man is no man
5. [a:]
He laughs best who laughs last
6. [
]
Honesty is the best policy
7. [
:
]
New lords – new laws
8. [u]
By hook or by crook
9. [u:]
Soon learnt, soon forgotten
10. [
]
Every country has its customs
11. [
ə
:]
It’s an early bird that catches the worm
12. [
ə
]
As like as two peas
13. [e
ɪ
]
No pains no gains
14. [
ə
u
]
There’s no place like home
15. [a
ɪ
]
Out of sight out of mind
16. [au]
From mouth to mouth
17. [
ɪ
]
The voice of one man is the voice of no one
18. [
ɪə
]
Near and dear
19. [
e
ə
]
Neither here not there
20. [
u
ə
]
What can’t be cured must be endured
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For more information see p. 160 (129)
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Reading Rules of English Vowels
A
a
Stressed Syllable
Open syllable
Close syllable
Before
r
Before
re
Unstressed Syllable
Letter Combinations
ai, ay
aw, au
ar
after
w
ar
after
qu
an +
consonant
a + ss, st, sk
a + ft, a + th
w(h) + a
[e
ɪ
]
[æ]
[
ɑ
:]
[e
ə
]
[
ə
]
[e
ɪ
]
[
Ɔ
:]
[
Ɔ
:]
[
Ɔ
:]
[
ɑ
:]
[
ɑ
:]
[
ɑ
:]
[
Ɔ
]
take, place, name, cake, state
map, sat, stand, happy, apple
car, art, dark, farm, party
care, bare, share, prepare
ago, about, legal, formal
main, chain, day, way, play
saw, law, autumn, cause
war, warm, warn
quarter, quarrel
answer, dance, chance
class, last, ask, task
after, craft, bath, rather
watch, wash, was, what, want
E
e
Stressed Syllable
Open syllable
Close syllable
before
r
before
re
Unstressed Syllable
Letter Combinations
ee, ea
ea + d
Exceptions:
ei + gh
ew
ey
ee, ea + r
ear +
consonant
[i:]
[e ]
[
ə
:
]
[
ɪə
]
[
ɪ
]
[
ə
]
[i:]
[e]
[e
ɪ
]
[ju:], [u:]
[e
ɪ
]
[
ɪə
]
[
ə
:]
be, he, me, see, meter, Peter
best, next, left, small
her, term, verse
here, mere, severe
begin, return, because, between
mother, father, corner, over
green, seem, sea, clean
bread, head, already
eight, weight
few, new, grew, blew
grey, obey
deer, dear, hear, appear
learn, earth, early
I
i
Stressed syllable
open syllable
Exceptions:
close syllable
before
r
before
re
Unstressed Syllable
Letter Combinations
i + ld, nd
Exceptions:
i + gh
[a
ɪ
]
[
ɪ
]
[
ə:
]
[a
ɪə
]
[
ɪ
]
[a
ɪ
]
[
ɪ
]
[a
ɪ
]
life, five, fine, tie, time
live [l
ɪ
v], give [
ɡɪ
v]
sit, lift, pick, little
bird, girl, first, circle
fire, tired, admire
origin, engine
child, find, kind, mind
children ['
ʧɪ
ldr
ə
n]
window ['wind
əʊ
]
right, light, night, high
11
O
o
Stressed Syllable
Open syllable
Close syllable
before
r
before
re
Unstressed Syllable
Suffixes
ous
Suffixes
or
Letter
Combinations
oa
oi, oy
oo + k
oo + l, m, n, d, t
oo + r
oo + gh
o + l +
consonant
ow
+ consonant
ow
( at the end )
or
after
w
[
əu
]
[
Ɔ
]
[
Ɔ
:
]
[
Ɔ
:
]
[
əu
]
[
əs
]
[
ə
]
[
əu
]
[
Ɔ
ɪ
]
[
ʊ
]
[u:]
[
Ɔ
:
]
[
Ɔ
:
]
[
əu
]
[au]
[
əu
]
[
ə
:]
close, note, rose, home
stop, long, song, copper
form, born, fork, border
store, before, restore
photo, motto, Negro
famous, various, numerous
doctor, tractor, conductor
coat, boat, road, roast
oil, noise, boy, enjoy
look, book, took
cool, room, soon, food, root
door, floor
bought, thought, brought
old, cold, told, hold
town, brown, crowd, down
know, grow, low, slow, show
but:
now
work, word, world, worse
U
u
Stressed Syllable
Open syllable
Open syllable
Close syllable
before
r +
consonant
before
r +
vowel
Unstressed
Syllable
[ju:]
[u:]
[
]
[
ə
:]
[ju
ə
], [u
ə
]
[
ə
]
tube, tune, useful
blue, true, June
cut, but, hurry, hunter
turn, burn, curly, hurt
pure, during, sure
upon, success, difficult
Y
Y
y
Stressed Syllable
Open syllable
Close syllable
before
r
before vowel
Unstressed
Syllable
[a
ɪ
]
[
ɪ
]
[a
ɪə
]
[j]
[
ɪ
]
my, try, type, cycle
symbol, system
tyre
year, you, young, yet
any, many, very, only
Phonetic drills
Ω
1)
Underline the vowels pronounced [ æ ] in this conversation.
A: Where were you standing ?
B: Outside my flat.
A: Where was the man ?
B: He ran out of the bank.
A: Was he carrying anything ?
B: A black bag.
A: Thank you, madam.
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Ω
2)
Listen to the phrases and write them in this table.
Ex.:
An angry customer. = [ æ ] + [
]
Come back! = [
] + [ æ ]
A lovely summer. = [
] + [
]
A happy man. = [æ ] + [ æ ]
[ æ ] + [
]
[
] + [ æ ]
[
] + [
]
[æ ] + [ æ ]
Ω
3)
Find four words in the box that contain the same vowel sound as in
1. clean
[
ɪ
: ]
-----
-----
-----
-----
2. bird
[
ə
:]
-----
-----
-----
-----
3. car
[a:]
-----
-----
-----
-----
4. four
[
:]
-----
-----
-----
-----
5. food
[u:]
-----
-----
-----
-----
and write them in the spaces.
Improve heart
prefer law visa piece laugh
early banana water me fruit June free
Thursday word abroad half bought blue seat
Ω
4)
All the words in the box include the letter “u”. How is it pronounced? Write the words
in the table.
Include customer full supermarket June
gun pull Sunday flu
put
push number
[
]
[
u
]
[
u:
]
sun
book
two
Ω
5)
Repeat these words and notice the underlined vowel sounds.
[e
ɪ
]
[ a
ɪ
]
[
ə
u]
[au]
day
climb
phone
pound
break
ice
know
now
change
flight
smoke
count
escape excited October
mountain
6)
Vowel practice. Read the words in the following exercises first downwards and then
across the page:
(1) [i:] – [
ɪ
]
(2) [
ɪ
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