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Practicing minimal pairs By Claudita Cárdenas

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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