语音练习1

Pure vowels (monophthongs)(12)
Five principles to distinguish pure vowels
1. height of the raised part of the tongue: close half-close half-open open
2. part of the tongue raised: front back central
3. length: long short
4. shape of the lips: rounded unrounded
5. degree of the tenseness of the muscles: tense lax
Front vowels(4)
1. /i:/ long close unrounded tense front
2. /i/ short half-close unrounded lax front
3. /e/ short half-open unrounded lax front
4. /æ / short open lax unrounded front
sentences for practice
1.Please give Tim the tickets for the film.
2.The teacher is going to give Hill a quiz to see if he can use “it” correctly.
3.Well, let’s tell Ted to get ready for the test.
4.I’m glad I am not married to that bad-tempered man.
5.He met many French friends yesterday.
6.Jack’s black cat is catching that fat rat.
Back vowels(5)
1./a: / long open unrounded lax unrounded back
2./ / short open rounded lax back
3./ / long half-open rounded tense back
4./u / short half-close rounded lax back
5./u:/ long close rounded tense back
sentences for practice
1.Father’s car runs very fast.
2.The dance party in the farmyard lasted far into the night.
3.She mops the floor every morning at four o’clock.
4.You ought to do what the doctor ordered.
5.It was true that Mr.Luke killed the wolf and saved the woman from the cruel beast.
6.She should go to her dentist at two o’clock in the afternoon to get the bad tooth pulled out.
A tongue twister for practice
At noon I took a good book
And sat by the pool in the wood
I soon took off my boot
And put my foot in the pool
Oh! How cool how cool.
Central vowels(3)
1./ / short half-open unrounded lax central
2./ / long half-close unrounded tense central
3./ / short half-open unrounded lax central sentences for practice
1.Every country has its customs.
2.Money is something but not everything.
3.I urged the thirty thirsty nurses to drink first.
4.The workers worked in the dirty workshop.
5.The wonderful weather was over.
6.I’m afraid that the color is unsuitable for my mother. Review the English Pure vowels
1. bead bid bed bad
teen tin ten tan
beat bit bet bat
eat it ate at
heel hill hell Hal
seat sit set sat
cheek chick check chat
2. cut cat cart cut cot
much match march bus boss
bug bag barge duck dock
3. luck lark lock
duck dark dock
lust last lost
cup carp cop
bucks barks box
4. shoot should shut shot short shark
noon nook none non north nasty whose hook hut hot horse heart
5. bird bed bud
fern fen fun
hurt held hut
burn ben bun
curt kept cut
dirt debt dust。