Disciplina: Habilidades Integradas do Inglês II

Professora: Tamiris Destro Costa

HANDOUT – Aula 4 – Consonant and vowel sounds.

1) Complete the spaces provided with the appropriate phonemic symbol.

unvoiced voiced unvoiced voiced unvoiced voiced unvoiced voiced

bilabial bilabial alveolar alveolar palato- palato- velar velar
plosive plosive plosive plosive alveolar alveolar plosive plosive
affricate affricate

unvoiced voiced unvoiced voiced unvoiced voiced unvoiced voiced

labio- labio- dental dental alveolar alveolar palato- palato-
dental dental fricative fricative fricative fricative alvelar alvelar
fricative fricative fricative fricative

voiced voiced voiced onset: voiced post bilabial palatal

bilabial alveolar velar unvoiced alveolar alveolar semi- semi-
nasal nasal nasal fortis lateral frictionless vowel vowel
fricative continuant

2) Add the sound /g/ or /k/ to the beginning of these words and write the new words.
Remember: think of sounds, not spelling. For example, if you add /k/ to the beginning of
water /wɔːtə/, you get quarter /kwɔːtə/ . The sound is similar but the spelling is completely
different.

Example: eight __gate__

a) up ____________ f) lime ____________

b) aim ____________ g) air _____________
c) ache _____________ h) all ______________
d) round _____________ i) rate _____________
e) old _____________ j) ill _______________

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 3) Write these nationality words in the correct column.

4) If a word ends with a /dʒ/ or a /tʃ/, and the next word begins with the same sound, you say
the sound twice. If you say Dutch cheese with one /tʃ/, it sounds like Dutch ease. The
speaker made this mistake in these sentences. Write what they meant to say.

EXAMPLE: Does she tea Chinese in the school? ___teach Chinese____

a) I don’t know which air to sit on. __________________

b) Everyone at the match ears when their team scores. ____________________
c) I never what chat shows on the TV. ______________________
d) The actor on stay joked with the audience. ___________________
e) Foxes sometimes come to the farm and eat chickens. ______________________
f) Do you want to chain jackets before we go out? __________________________

5) Match the words and their transcription

6) Work with a partner and circle the answers

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 7) Listen and circle the words you hear

8) Match the words and the transcriptions

9) Each sentence contains four or five examples of one of these sounds /j/ , /w/ and /h/. Write
the phonemic letter under the sounds in the sentences.

Example – A fusion of Cuban and European music. /j/

j j j j

a) Your uniform used to be yellow. /j/

b) Haley’s horse hurried ahead. /h/
c) This is a quiz with twenty quick questions. /w/
d) We went to work at quarter to twelve. /w/
e) New York University student’s union. /j/
f) The hen hid behind the hen house. /h/
g) Which language would you like to work in? /w/

10) Listen and circle the words you hear

11) Listen and circle the words you hear

A – bucket C – fan E – volleyball G – phone

B - picnic D - view F - spade H - waves

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 12) Write the words in bold next to the corresponding symbols

a) /ʃ / - ____________________________________
b) /tʃ/ - _____________________________________
c) /ʒ/ - ______________________________________
d) /dʒ/ - just, _________________________________
13) Circle the words you hear

14) Write the following sentences in normal letters.

/wen jɔ: legz dən wɜ:k laɪk ðeɪ ju:st tə bɪfɔ:/

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/ænd aɪ kɑ:n swi:p ju: ɒf əv jɔ: fi:t/

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/wɪl jɔ: maʊθ stɪl rəmembə ðə teɪst əv maɪ lʌv/

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/wɪl jə ʔaɪz stɪl smaɪl frəm jə tʃi:ks/

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15) Read the poem and transcribe the words in phonetic script to complete the lines. Read the
poem aloud to yourself to practice the pronunciation.