Pronunciation Exercises

Same/Different. (Target: vowels / iy / and / x /.

bid - bead ,/feet - fit ,/rich -reach
hid - hid / cheek - cheek /field - field
eat - eat / peach - pitch /deal - dill
hit - heat / leak - lick / meal - meal
jeep - jeep / slip - sleep / Tim - team
cheap - chip / list - list / still - still

Which is Different1/2/3. (Target: vowels / iy / and / x /.

bead - bid - bead / seek - sick - sick
fizz - fizz - fees / reach - reach - rich
lead - lid - lid / leak - leak - lick
leave - leave - live / sill - seal - sill
feet - fit - fit /dill - deal - deal
lip - leap - lip / pill - peel - pill
chip - chip - cheap / sin - seen - seen
peak - pick -peak / rim - rim ream

One/Two. (Target: vowels / iy / and / x /.

deed - did / deep - dip / fill - feel
bit - beat / fist - feast /teen - tin
peak - pick / reap - rip / green - grin
seat - sit / sick - seek / rim - ream
wick - week / slit - sleet / bin bean

Repeat the word with the target sound. (Target: vowel /ow/.

long ago
(ago)
snow shovel
(snow)
bowling ball
(bowling)
phone number (phone)
laundry soap (laundry)
both cultures (both)

across the ocean

my only brother
a funny joke
a stone wall
a well-known author
Please come home.

(ocean)
(only)
(joke)
(stone)
(known)
(home )

Mimicry (words, phrases). Target consonant

thank
think
theme
thick

thin
thousand
thief
thunder

method
anything
nothing
Kathy

Thank you.
Think about it.
theme paper
thick and thin
a thousand miles
Hes a thief.
a new method

Athens
athlete
author
ethical

cloth
both
math
Smith

mouth
growth
beneath
north

Do you need anything

Think nothing of it.
Shes a popular author.
a red cloth
both of you
Do you like math?
Kathy Smith

Conversation exercise focusing on stress, intonation and word connection

Mr.Bannerji: Oh, Good morning Mr.Verma. Are you out to walk around for some morning exercise? Are
you still doing diabetes exercise?
Mr.Verma :Good morning Mr.Bannerji. Yes, I thought it is good idea to walk around for some morning
exercise get some fresh air early in the morning. May I join you on the walking exercise?
Mr.Bannerji: Do come along. It is nice to have some company for walking exercise. My wife comes
along with me sometimes for the walking exercise but she is quite irregular.

Phrases
Would you like to come to dinner next Friday?
Id like you to meet my wife.
Isnt it such a lovely day?
I wonder what the weather will be like tomorrow
Could you tell me the way to the train station, please?
Thank you very much for all your help.
May I open the window?
I think youve taken my bag by mistake.
Lovely day, isnt it?
Im really glad tomorrow is a holiday.
My name is Jeff. How do you do?
Can you help me use this payphone?

Tongue Twisters
A Kentukian named Knott could not knit, so Knott invented a knitter called the Knott
Knitter, but the Knott Knitter would not knit knots. One day while Knott was not knitting
on the Knott Knitter, Knott invented an attachment for the Knott Knitter called the Knott
Knitter Knotter. When Knott attached the Knott Knitter Knotter to the Knott Knitter, no
man could knit knots like Knott knit on the Knott Knitter.
Ken Dodd's dad's dog's dead.
"Are you copper-bottoming 'em my man?" "No, I'm aluminuming 'em ma'am."
The black bloke's back brake block broke.
A box of biscuits, a box of mixed biscuits, and a biscuit mixer
He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.
Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager managing an imaginary menagerie.
I slit a sheet, a sheet I slit, upon a slitted sheet I sit.
The Leith police dismisseth thee. The Leith police dismisseth us.
A proper cup of coffee from a copper coffee pot
Round and round the rugged rock the ragged rascal ran.
"We reweave rips" (A sign in the window of a tailor's shop.)
The winkle ship sank and the shrimp ship swam.
An old seabear sits on the pier and drinks a pint of beer.
Three sweet switched Swiss witches watch three washed Swiss witch Swatch
watch switches. Which sweet switched Swiss witch watches which washed Swiss
witch Swatch watch switch?
One was a racehorse, Two was one too. One won a race, Two won one too.
She sells sea shells on the sea shore. The shells she sells are sea shells, I'm sure.
A cricket critic
A black bug's blood
Irish wristwatch
Legend tripping
Liril
Red lorry, yellow lorry
Red leather, yellow leather
Red welly, yellow welly
Road-roller
Upper roller, lower roller
Rubber baby buggy bumpers
Toy boat
Unique New York
Stupid Superstition