1. UNIVERSIDAD TECNOLÓGICA DE PEREIRA
LICENCIATURA EN LA ENSEÑANZA DE LA LENGUA INGLESA
PRONUNCIATION COURSE
Claudia Andrea Cárdenas Jiménez
1. Write the phonemes that you hear.
2. Write the words that you hear.
3. Write the phonemes of the underlined letters in the words below.
j. Why a. Advertising
k. Who b. Architect
l. Unique c. Write
m. Scissors d. Culture
n. City e. Acquire
o. Phone f. Ancient
p. Know g. Revision
q. Very h. Education
r. Quickly i. Gnawing
4. Classify the consonant sounds into the following chart according to their characteristics
Bilabial Labiodental Dental Alveolar Palato- Palatal Velar Glottal
alveolar
Plosive
Affricate
Fricative
Nasal
Lateral
Approximant
Across Top = Points of Articulation Down Side = Manners of Articulation

2. 5. Read the description of the consonant sounds and choose the sound that matches the
description
a. Alveolar, nasal and voiced sound. The tongue blade closes against the alveolar ridge and the rims of the
tongue against the side teeth.
/n/ /ŋ/ /m/
b. Alveolar, voiceless and fricative sound. The tongue blade makes light contact with the alveolar ridge
/z/ /ʃ/ /s/
c. Velar, plosive and voiceless sound; closure is made by the back of the tongue against the soft palate.
/ŋ/ /g/ /k/
d. Fricative, dental, voiced sound; the tongue tip makes light contact the upper and lower teeth.
/t/ /θ/ /ð/
e. A palate- alveolar, approximant and voiced sound; the tongue tip is held just behind the alveolar ridge. The
soft palate is raised.
/r/ /w/ /h/
6. Complete the chart below with some problems that your project peers have in the
pronunciation of consonant sounds. Think about a solution and a strategy to face every
problem. An example has been provided for you.
PROBLEM SOLUTION STRATEGY
Marian uses /v/ I could ask her to purse her lips as I could provide a set of words that contain the
instead of /w/ though about to whistle. I could then /w/ sound.
ask her to add her voice.

3. 7. In the following chart, there are some friendly descriptions of the sounds, read them and
say what the sounds are. Then, write a friendly description for the subsequent sounds.
SOUNDS IDEAS TO HELP STUDENTS ARTICULATE SOUNDS
Hold a small piece of paper in front of your lips, the paper should move for this sound.
This is the sound that the snake makes.
When you like something, you pronounce this sound.
You pronounce this sound when you ask someone to be quiet and then you add your
voice.
/ŋ/
/z/
/r/
8. Write the phonemes for the underlined parts of the words.
Consonants
treasure schedule
yacht usually
hero diphthong
machine award
thigh answered
enough Sing
education Anger
charity coherence
option Critical
music Giant
clothes clocks
arrives ridge

4. 9. Say if the next statements are true (t) or false (f)
a. In English there are four affricates, two voiced and two voiceless. ( )
b. There are three nasal consonants in English. ( )
c. The IPA has 24 vowel sounds and 20 consonant sounds. ( )
d. /j/ and /w/ are semivowels. ( )
e. Fricative sounds result from the combination of a plosive and an affricate sound. ( )
10. Match the following concepts with the appropriate terms provided in the box.
Velar- homonyms- phonetics- labiodental- fricative- phonemes- articulation-
minimal pairs
a. The different sounds within a language ___________
b. A place of articulation that occurs when the upper teeth touch the lower lip ___________
c. Words or utterances that differ by only one phoneme__________
d. A manner of articulation that occurs when two vocal organs come close enough together for the
movement of air between them to be heard, e.g. /f/ and /v/ _________________
e. A place of articulation that occurs when the back of the tongue is used against the soft palate, e.g.
/k/ ________________
f. Words that have the same pronunciation but different spelling and meaning _____________
g. A term that refers to the study of the speech sounds _________________
11. Provide three words for each phoneme, with the sound at the beginning, middle and end of
the word, elicit the examples from the book. The impossible ones have been blocked out.
Beginning Middle End
p
k
z
ʒ X
ʃ
dʒ
j X
θ
ð
tʃ

5. 12. Identify the incorrect phoneme in each word. Then, write the correct phoneme next to the
word.
1. Church /ʃɜ:rtʃ / 8. Sing /sɪn/
2. Judge /dʒʌʒ/ 9. Hello /jə'ləʊ/ 14. Revision /rɪ'vɪʃən/
3. Short /tʃɔ:rt / 10. Read /ri:t/ 15. Write /wraɪt/
4. Kilo /'qi:ləʊ/ 11. Yes /ies/ 16. Ancient /'eɪnʒənt/
5. Casual /'kædʒuəl/ 12. Milk /mɪlq/ 17. Culture /'kʌltər /
6. When /hen/ 13. Advertising 18. Crime /craɪm/
7. Very /'beri/ /'ædvərtaɪsɪŋ/
13. Write the consonant sound of the underlined letters in the following set of words.
a. Within they those / /
b. Measure pleasure beige / /
c. Culture children achieve / /
d. Usual few young / /
e. Chef machine ancient / /
f. Photograph enough knife / /
14. Read the following transcriptions and write the words
a) /'nɑ:lɪdʒ / ______________
b) /'læŋgwɪdʒ/ ______________
c) /'ækwə'zɪʃən / ______________
d) /'tʃɑ:klət / ______________
e) /'kæʒuəl/ ______________
f) /'ædvərtaɪzɪŋ / ______________
g) /rɪ'vɪʒən/ _____________
h) /'edʒə'keɪʃən / _____________
i) /'eɪnʃənt/ ______________
j) /'kʌltʃər / ______________
15. Circle the word that has a different consonant sound of the letters in bold
a. This them thing those
b. Because please phase chase
c. Mechanic achieve archive chorus
d. Cage beige huge large
e. Confusion division occasion admission
f. Little water attach meeting
g. Passed played wished danced
h. Answered laughed cried lived
i. Repeated wanted stayed needed
j. Cities farms kids trucks
k. Lists cars rocks forks
l. Cares watches wishes busses

6. 16. Put these words into the columns below
Singing- strange- wrong- congratulations- stronger- young- oranges- exchanged- wedding-
single- bungalow- buildings- English- darling- changing- king
Ŋ Ŋg ŋdʒ
Thing Hungry Danger
17. The letters th can be pronounced / ð / or / θ /. Put these words into the columns
below, according to the pronunciation of the letters th
Grandfather Other them three
North Things clothes athlete
Health Months their leather
/ð/ /θ/
Grandfather North
18. Write the phonemic symbols of the letters in bold
Chef Children Mechanic Charity
Cigarette Exciting Special Thigh
Successful Measure Chef Sure
Profession Sight Television Single
Retired Receptionist Artist Enough
Necessary Excellent Certain Ocean
Sugar South You This
Matches Changed Birthday Long
Usually Special Drunk Europe
Together Just Pleasure Cheap
/ɡʊd lʌk!/