This document contains the story of Little Red Riding Hood in phonetic transcription. The story is summarized as follows:
Little Red Riding Hood goes to visit her grandmother carrying a cake. On the way, she meets a wolf who tricks her and runs ahead to the grandmother's house, eating the grandmother. When Little Red Riding Hood arrives, the wolf fools her by speaking in the grandmother's voice. A woodcutter hears screams and rescues Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother by striking the wolf, who runs away. Little Red Riding Hood never sees the wolf again.
6. Underline the words you listen…
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Teacher
Kitchen
Work
Cinema
Who
Book
Five
Away
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Car
Study
Ball
Hot
Pen
Cat
Hit
See
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Boy
Bed
Onion
Sugar
Say
Birds
Look
Wine
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Carrots
Now
Word
Tall
Park
Good
Key
Apple
8. True or false?
• English speakers use twelve pure vowels
• Vowels are differentiated from the
consonants by their position of the tongue
and the lips
• Lip positions for vowel production can be
rounded and neutral
9. • While vowels are produced with the help
of many organs, consonants depend only
on the position of the tongue and the lips
• The position of the tongue and the lips
allow for a great amount of variation
enabling us to voice many more than the
familiar five vowels.
10. • English has eight diphthongs
• Vowels can be produced by raising the
tongue high, keeping it in the middle or
low in the mouth
• Vowels can be produced alone and may
be short or long
• Vowels are classified into close, mid and
open vowels
12. CLOSE VOWELS
• Lips spread, tongue tense. Sides of the tongue
touch upper molars (key. cheese, scene, police,
people)
• Lips spread loosely, tongue more relaxed. Sides
of tongue may touch upper molars (rhythm, sieve,
hit, sausage)
• Lips rounded, tongue relaxed, gorilla noise (book,
good, woman, push, pull)
• Lips rounded, tongue tense, use a rising and
falling intonation (food, rude, true, who, fruit)
13. MID VOWELS
• Lips loosely spread, tongue tenser than for
i: (egg, left, said, head)
• Lips relaxed and neutrally spread, as
though you were completely exhausted
(about- paper- banana, nation)
• Lips relaxed and neutrally spread (shirt,
her, word, further)
• Lips loosely rounded (fork, call, snore,
taught)
14. OPEN VOWELS
• Lips neutrally open (hat, attack,
antique)
• Lips neutrally open (run, uncle,
front, nourish, does)
• Tongue in the fully open position,
Lips neutrally open (far, part, class,
half)
• Tongue in the fully open position,
lips lightly rounded (dog, often,
cough, want)
19. To make the sound /i:/, smile and open your
mouth a little. /i:/ is a long sound. It comes
in the words feet and seat.
To make the sound /ɪ /, open your mouth a
little more. /ɪ / is a short sound. It comes in
the words fit and sit.
20. THE SOUNDS /i:/ AND /ɪ /
feet
seat
steal
feel
jeans
beans
team
cheap
peach
leave
fit
sit
still
fill
gins
bins
Tim
chip
pitch
live
41. - the same letters can have different vowel sound:
Soup
couple
bought
/u:/
/ʌ/
/ɔ:/
-different letters can have the same vowel sound:
Soup
/u:/
boots
/u:/
suit
/u:/
42. Cross out the word which does not contain
the vowel sound on the left.
/e/
bread
many
/ʌ/
enough
/ɒ/
onion
/ɜ:/
shirt
/i:/
cheese
/ɑ:/
car
/ɪ /
buildings
/u:/
shampoo
woman
brother
coffee
pork
tea
carrots
little
look
eggs
sugar
lot
world
wine
half
birds
fruit
much
what
university
magazines
aren´t
milk
two
43. 4. Listen and circle the symbol that matches
the sound of the underlined letters.
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Bus
Tall
Word
Good
Park
Shop
Apples
Blue
Cigarette
/ʊ/
/ɑ:/
/ɜ:/
/ʊ/
/æ/
/ʌ/
/æ/
/ʊ/
/ʌ/
/ʌ/
/ɔ:/
/ɔ:/
/ɔ:/
/ɑ:/
/ ɒ/
/ə/
/u:/
/ə/
44. /u:/
To make the
sound /u:/,
make your lips very
round and hard.
make the sound
long.
/ʊ/
. Practise making
the sounds
To make the
sound /ʊ/,
open your lips a
little and make
them a little
round. Keep the
sound short.
45. THE SOUNDS /ʊ / AND /u:/
Full
Pull
Look
Soot
Fool
Pool
Luke
Suit
59. The tornado was so
devastating that
whole cities were
wiped off the
________
a. Mop
b.Map
60. She must be a whiz! Are you telling me that
she can ____ at the age of 2?
a. Add
b.Odd
61. What she ______ in
beauty, she makes up
for brains
a. Lacks
b.Locks
62. A _______ is a bundle
of coarse yarn, a
sponge, or other
absorbent material,
fastened at the end
of a stick or handle
for washing floors
a. Mop
b.Map
63. The documents of the
new exports policies
are quintessential
for the company.
That’s why they
are under ____ and
key
a. Lack
b.Lock
64. When we are in need for a _____ they don’t
show up
a. Cab
b.Cob
65. I can’t believe that
Luren let the
______ out of
the bag.
Everybody was in
shock.
a. Cot
b.Cat
66. Do you know how to grill
corn on the ____?
a. Cab
b.Cob
67. That _____ is a nightmare! Firs, I
couldn’t sleep and second, my whole
body was aching the next day
a. Cat
b.Cot