This document provides listening practice for Japanese learners of English. It includes exercises to fill in phonetic charts with consonant and vowel sounds, identify rhyming words, transcribe words and phrases into phonetic transcription using the International Phonetic Alphabet, and note syllable patterns and reductions. The exercises help learners improve their ability to perceive and produce English sounds.

1. Listening 2
PRACTICE TEST
Consonant is _______________ in Japanese.
Vowel is _______________ in Japanese.
There are ______ consonants, ______ vowels, ______ diphthongs, and _______
“other” sounds in English.
DIPHTHONGS
stops fricatives affricates nasals liquids glides other
聴く問題
Listening Part 1- Fill in the IPA chart. Listening is available as a hint for this
section.
Think and Write Part 1- Write the correct answer in the blank (_____).

2. Please write a word that use these sounds.
ɑ͡ɪ : __________
ɔ͡ɪ : __________
e͡ɪ: __________
ɑ͡ʊ: __________
o͡ʊ: __________
Ending Sound Rhyming word #1 Rhyming Word #2
ʌn
ʌmp̚
ʌk̚
ɑ͡ʊn
ʊd
u:l
ʊk̚
Listening Part 2- Write the correct pronunciation in IPA next to the words.
聴く問題
Listening Part 3- Write 2 Rhyming words for these ending sounds. You can listen to the
ending sound on the recording.
聴く問題
1 eat ______________ it ____________
2 bath _____________ bus _____________
3 dog _____________ dock _____________
Think and Write Part 2- Write the correct pronunciation in IPA next to the

3. [ ] slams ____________
[ ] screen door ____________
[ ] loud ____________
[ ] shut it ____________
[ ] bread ____________
[ ] depends ____________
[ ] cut it ____________
[ ] good ____________
[ ] a day ____________
[ ] inside ____________
[ ] give ‘em ____________
Listening Part 4- Listen to the poem, HOW MANY, HOW MUCH. (1) Write the number of
syllables for the word in the [ ]. (2) Write the syllable pattern. (O o o) (3) Write the IPA. Don’t
forget to mark unreleased stops and CV linking.
聴く問題
Think and Write Part 3- Write the IPA for these phrases using reductions.
cats and dogs ______________
coffee or tea_________________
friend of mine____________________
O o O
O o O
O o O