Lesson and Drills for English Vowel Sounds (IPA)

1. INTERNATIONAL
PHONETIC ALPHABET
Review and Activity

2. American English Vowel
Sounds
j I a ɔ
eat gift ask law
meat fish swam daughter
sheep ship father caught
beat bit hot saw
heap hip harm ball

3. American English Vowel
Sounds
ɛ æ ʌ ə
head have nothing and
hell bat crush about
said sand son announce
death mass hungry vacation
edge bad love sofa

4. ʊ ɜ u
pull bird blue
book word soup
wood worm true
cook turn shoot
took person pool
American English Vowel
Sounds

5. American English Diphthong
Sounds
ɑʊ oʊ ɔɪ ɑɪ eɪ ju
brow drone oil mine eight cute
house hole destroy height wave refuse
south don‘t appoint trifle bathe beauty
now though foyer buy lady huge
out coat noise die crazy stupid

6. Word comparisons – i and ɪ
i ɪ i ɪ ɪ i
deep dip eat it busy leader
seek sick sweet sixteen sing sleepily
meal mill steel mill swift eagle
feel fill reach it timid and
weak
leak lick seek the sick quick reading
heat hit leave the ship sit on the seat

7. Sentence comparisons
1. I will take a dip in the deep pool.
2. He seeks the doctor for his sick child.
3. I will leave you to live as you wish.
4. He buried his pick on the peak.
5. He saw sheep on the ship.

8. Word comparisons – ɛ and ɪ
ɛ ɪ ɛ ɪ ɪ ɛ
head hid well written hit his head
red rid elder sister liberty or
death
check chick jealous women silly gesture
desk disk pleasant trip ring the bell
bed bid energy and
vigor
cheerful red
well will merry christmas serious Betty

9. Sentence comparisons
1. Get rid of that red dress.
2. Tell him to wait till I come.
3. He hid his head in shame.
4. I think he will get well soon.
5. He counted ten tins on the shelf.

10. Word comparisons
eɪ ɪ eɪ ɛ
pain pin mate met
sale sill paste pest
sane sin date debt
bail bill chaste chest
fail Fill gate get
fate fit taste test

11. Word comparisons
æ ɛ æ eɪ
bad bed plaque plague
bag beg statue stadium
sand send cashier casing
rack wreck chasm chaos
than then natural nature
band bend fashion facial

12. Word comparisons
u ʊ u ju
loot look food feud
tool took ooze use
shoot shook rude muse
cool cook clue new
who‘d hood moo mew
stool stood moot cube

13. Word comparisons
oʊ ɑʊ ɔ u
oat out tall tool
foal foul fall fool
coal cowl Paul pull
hole howl sought soot
don‘t down call cool
know now ball bull

14. Word comparisons
ʌ a ʌ u
hut hot sun soon
gun gone skull school
pump pomp cull cool
stuck stock bust boost
shut shot rut root
nothing progress supper super

15. Word comparisons
ʌ ɔ æ ʌ
front fraught man hunt
cover coffer half dozen
other author stand up
custom caustic fast bus
button bought
them
bad study
front door happy lucky

16. ɜ ɛ ɜ ɪ
learned lend bird beard
person peasant stir steer
kernel kennel fir fear
ɜ ɔ ɜ a
worm warm fur far
word ward burn barn
courage cordage curt cart

17. ai eɪ ɪ ai
mine main kit kite
fine feign fill file
die day limb climb
civil rights aim high
city lights strange silence
different height famous writer
witness the crime crazy miser

18. Phrase comparison
girl friend
personal attention
emergency
session
sermon at ten
learn his lesson
deputy clerk
pleasant person
get up early
led the search
ahead of the herd

19. Phrase comparison
church yard
hurt arm
curtain rod
urgent knock
smart nurse
heart murmur
scarlet turban
charged with
murder

20. work indoors
attorney at law
worship the Lord
worth a fortune
short words
long journey
court’s adjourned
all the world
Phrase comparison

21. food tube
rude pupil
foolish feud
wounded fugitive
Phrase comparison
launching tower
haunted house
August shower
call a foul

22. cautious group
gaunt youth
raw recruit
awful truth
open house
go south
closing out
bold scoundrel
Phrase comparison

23. cold war
low ball
broken jaw
so long
don’t falllaunching tower
haunted house
August shower
call a foul
Phrase comparison

24. full moon
good food
foot loose
cooked soup
wooden stool
bend the band
beg for the bag
red hat
seven mats
heavy hand
Phrase comparison