The document provides pronunciation tips for English, which is difficult to pronounce correctly due to inconsistencies between spelling and sound. It lists 17 tips on pronouncing common letter combinations, including combinations that make the vowel sounds /i:/ as in tree, /ɔ:/ as in door, /u:/ as in school, and /ʌ/ as in love. It also covers pronouncing suffixes, consonant sounds such as /ʃ/ and /tʃ/, and vowels sounds in words like live and woman. The tips are meant to improve English pronunciation.

1. PRONUNCIATION TIPS
LEVEL I - 2020

2. Why is English pronunciation difficult?
 The spelling system of English does not represent very well
how English words are spoken.
 Sometimes the same sound is spelled in many different ways.
 Sometimes different sounds are written the same way.
 The alphabet has only 28 letters but English has at least
40 different sounds.

3. We’d like to give you some tips today!
PRONUNCIATION TIP 1
Letter combinations pronunced /i:/ as in TREE
 ee – sheep
 ie  niece
 ei  receipt
 ea  cheap
 e + consonant + e  complete
 i + consonant + e  elite, quarantine

4. PRONUNCIATION TIP 2
Letter combinations pronunced /ɔː/ as in DOOR
 or  horse
 ore  shore
 ar  war
 augh  caught
 oor  door
 aw  law
 our  four
 ough  fought
 al  walk
 au  author

5. PRONUNCIATION TIP 3
Letter combinations pronunced /uː/ as in SCHOOL
 u  super
 ue  blue
 ui  fruit
 ew  chew
 oe  shoe
 oo  spoon
 ou  soup
 o + consonant + e  move
 u + consonant +e June

6. PRONUNCIATION TIP 4
Letter combinations pronunced /ʌ/ as in LOVE
 u  shut
 o  love
 ou  country
 ough  rough, tough does

7. PRONUNCIATION TIP 5
-ABLE IS AN ADJECTIVE SUFFIX AND IT IS UNSTRESSED
comfortable /kʌmftəbl/
reasonable /riːznəbl/

8. PRONUNCIATION TIP 6
SCHWA
 The sound schwa is very common in English and it is spelt in many different ways. It
is never found in stressed syllables.  Saturday

9. PRONUNCIATION TIP 7
 DIPHTHONG - /ɪə/
 ear  fear
 eer  beer
 ere  here
 ier  pier

10. PRONUNCIATION TIP 8
DIPHTHONG - /eɪ/
a  station
a + consonant + e/y  face, lazy
a + nge  dangerous
ay  stay
ai  aim

11. PRONUNCIATION TIP 9
 DIPHTHONG - /aɪ/
 i  find
 i + consonant + e or y  tiny
 igh  light
 y  fly

12. PRONUNCIATION TIP 10
 DIPHTHONG - /əʊ/
 oa  coat
 ow  flow
 o + consonant + e  vote
 o + consonant + y  cosy

13. PRONUNCIATION TIP 11
DIPHTHONG - /eə/
are  care
air  chair
ear  bear
ere  there

14. PRONUNCIATION TIP 12
/ʃ/
 ch  chef
 t + ion  section
 c + ial  commercial
 s + ion  extension
 ss + ion  profession
 x + ious  anxious
 !!!  sugar, sure

15. PRONUNCIATION TIP 13
 live /laɪv/ or /lɪv/
 woman / wʊmən/ – women / wɪmɪn/
 child / tʃaɪld/
 children / tʃɪldrən/

16. PRONUNCIATION TIP 14
CH
 children / ˈtʃɪldrən /
 architect / ˈɑːkɪtekt /
 chef / ʃef /

17. PRONUNCIATION TIP 15
LETTER G
glass / ˈɡlɑːs /
age / eɪdʒ/
garage / ˈɡærɑːʒ /

18. PRONUNCIATION TIP 16
LETTERS OW
how / ˈhaʊ /
below / bɪˈləʊ /

19. PRONUNCIATION TIP 17
 LETTERS TH
 Thursday /ˈθɜːzdeɪ /
 father / fɑːðə /
 Thomas / tɒməs /