minimal pairs
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Practicing minimal pairs
By Claudita Cárdenas
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True or false?• Vowels are differentiated from the
consonants by their position of the tongue and the lips
• 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.
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• English has more than a dozen different vowels and we find many 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
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CLOSE VOWELS• Lips spread, tongue tense. Sides of the tongue
touch upper modals (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)
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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)
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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)
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VOWELS
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VOWELS
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- the same letters can have different vowel sound:
Soup couple bought
/u:/ /ʌ/ /ɔ:/
-different letters can have the same vowel sound:
Soup boots suit
/u:/ /u:/ /u:/
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Cross out the word which does not contain the vowel sound on the left.
/e/ bread woman eggs many
/ʌ/ enough brother sugar much
/ɒ/ onion coffee lot what
/ɜ:/ shirt pork world university
/i:/ cheese tea wine magazines
/ɑ:/ car carrots half aren´t
/ɪ/ buildings little birds milk
/u:/ shampoo look fruit two
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4. Listen and circle the symbol that matches the sound of the underlined letters.
• Bus /ʊ/ /ʌ/• Tall /ɑ:/ /ɔ:/• Word /ɜ:/ /ɔ:/• Good /ʊ/ /ɔ:/• Park /æ/ /ɑ:/• Shop /ʌ/ /ɒ/• Apples /æ/ /ə/• Blue /ʊ/ /u:/• Cigarette /ʌ/ /ə/
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To make the sound /u:/,
make your lips very
round and hard.
make the sound long.
/u:/ /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.
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THE SOUNDS /ʊ/ AND /u:/
Full Fool
Pull Pool
Look Luke
Soot Suit
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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.
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feet fit
seat sit
steal still
feel fill
jeans gins
beans bins
team Tim
cheap chip
peach pitch
leave live
THE SOUNDS /i:/ AND /ɪ/
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Now you…
• Teacher
• Kitchen
• Work
• Cinema
• Who
• Book
• Five
• Away
• Car
• Study
• Ball
• Hot
• Pen
• Cat
• Hit
• See
• Boy
• Bed
• Onion
• Sugar
• Say
• Birds
• Look
• Wine
• Carrots
• Now
• Word
• Tall
• Park
• Good
• Key
• Apple
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Complete the statements with the appropriate word
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sheep
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hit
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eel
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sieve
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leave
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ship
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heat
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ill
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receive
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live
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Match the similar words
• Sheep
• Receive
• Leave
• Heat
• Eel
• ill
• Live
• Hit
• Sieve
• Ship
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ANSWER
• Sheep
• Heat
• Eel
• Receive
• Leave
• Ship
• Hit
• ill
• Sieve
• live
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A necklace of brown glass ______
a.Beads
b.Bids
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She broke her _______ falling down the stairs
a. Heap
b. Hip
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Those shoes don’t _______ her _______.
a.feet, fit
b.Fit, feet
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He made a ____ of $150 for the painting
a.Bead
b.Bid
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Everytime he wants to play, he begins to ______; he’s really sick
a.Whiz
b.Wheez
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He’s so brilliant. He’s a _____ at mathematics
a.Whiz
b.Wheez
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This is the football _______
a.Peach
b.Pitch
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She _______ for her gun
a.Reached
b.Riched
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Diane’s ___________ her lollipop
a.Leaking
b.Licking
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There are 52 _______ in a year
a.Weeks
b.Wicks
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The tap ______ all day, we have to get it fixed
a.Licks
b.Leaks
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My parents in law are ______ enough to buy an airplane
a. Reach
b. Rich
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Her face is as soft as a _______
a.Peach
b.Pitch
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That _______ of rubish stinks
a.Hip
b.Heap
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The tornado was so devastating that whole cities were wiped off the ________
a.Mop
b.Map
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She must be a whiz! Are you telling me that she can ____ at the age of 2?
a.Add
b.Odd
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What she ______ in beauty, she makes up for brains
a.Lacks
b.Locks
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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
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A candle _______ is string, cord, or wooden object that holds the flame of a candle.
a.Week
b.Wick
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The documents of the new exports policies are quintessential for the company. That’s why they are under ____ and key
a.Lack
b.Lock
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When we are in need for a _____ they don’t show up
a.Cab
b.Cob
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I can’t believe that Luren let the ______ out of the bag. Everybody was in shock.
a.Cot
b.Cat
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Do you know how to grill corn on the ____?
a.Cab
b.Cob
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That _____ is a nightmare! Firs, I couldn’t sleep and second, my
whole body was aching the next day
a.Cat
b.Cot
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Choose the ______ word out?
a. add
b. odd