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Exercise 1 Listen to the Exercise 1 audio file and circle the vowel sound for each word that you hear.
Word 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 i: a e a e Vowel sound a o e i: e : : a e u: : a u

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Exercise 2 Listen to the Exercise 2 audio file and circle the final sound for each word that you hear.
Word 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 t g : r e g Final sound of word d k p s m i: r e t i: z n j t e w h j

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Exercise 3 Listen to Exercise 3 audio file to hear the names of the animals listed in the first column below. Select the correct phonetic symbol for the vowel sound in each word from the list provided.
Word cat dog goat horse cow duck bull sheep pig goose hen bird Correct vowel sound Choice of vowels [i:] [] [ ] [ ] [ ] [u:] [e] [ :] [ :] [ ] [o ] [a ]

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Phonetics: the sounds of language

Exercise 4 Listen to the following pairs of words in the Exercise 4 audio file. The two words have one speech sound in common. Identify it and write the phonetic symbol for that sound. Example: box lick Answer [k] from [bks] and [lk]
Speech sound in common

Pair of words 1. joke badge 2. fish rough 3. cough top 4. zoo rose 5. nation shed 6. same grey 7. duck fox 8. think death 9. father agree 10. ankle wrong

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Exercise 5 Listen to the following pairs of words in the Exercise 5 audio file. Each pair has some alphabetic letters in common, but these letters are pronounced using different speech sounds. Write the phonetic symbols for each shared alphabetic letter. Example: duck put answer [] and []
First alphabetic letter in common Second alphabetic letter in common

Pair of words

1. case cello 2. dock mother 3. game hat 4. seat goes 5. The fourth 6. light fin 7. lot fort 8. ear bear 9. assess mission 10. how flow

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Exercise 6 Each of the following transcriptions contains an error. Identify the error and write the correct transcription.
Transcription 1. judge [jd] 2. that [t] 3. shout [sha t] 4. rose [ro s] 5. mayor [me y] 6. fixes [f x z] 7. robber [r bb] 8. unique [juniq] 9. carrot [cr t] 10.tongue [tng] Correct transcription

Exercise 7 The following consonants are grouped according to their place of articulation. For each group there is one consonant that should not be included. Identify the odd one out for each group, and identify the place of articulation for the other consonants in the group.
Odd one out 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. [m] [k] [p] [b] [d] [s] [n] [v] [] [k] [] [g] [j] [ ] [] [d ] [n] [h] [l] [t] Place of articulation

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Exercise 8 The following consonants are grouped according to their manner of articulation. For each group there is one consonant that should not be included. Identify the odd one out for each group, and identify the manner of articulation for the other consonants in the group.
Odd consonant 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. [f] [] [k] [ ] [p] [t] [k] [v] [] [j] [w] [r] [g] [l] [m] [d] [] [z] [ ] [d ] Manner of articulatio n

Exercise 9 Decide whether the descriptions of tongue height and front/back dimension for the following vowels are correct or incorrect.
Vowel description 1. [i:] high front vowel 2. [:] mid back vowel 3. [] mid back vowel 4. [a] low central vowel 5. [e] high front vowel 6. [] high central vowel 7. [u:] high central vowel 8. [ ] higher front vowel 9. [:] mid central vowel 10.[ ] low central vowel Correct/incorrect

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Exercise 10 For each group of the following sounds, identify the features that they all share. Example: [p] [b] [m] consonant, stop, labial
Group of sounds 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. [] [] [s] [z] [s] [z] [ ] [ ] [b] [m] [w] [m] [n] [] [p] [t] [k] Shared features

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