All levels 2013-09: Learning phonetics (1) (Special guest Annie Bottle)

Are you worried about sounding like Annie bottle* on her famous hit "Relaxing cup of café con leche".



Don't panic! Here is the solution.

This is an excellent phonetics chart from the New English File student's book.

(*Note: To be completely fair with Ms Botella, at least she tried to speak English in public, and despite her strong accent she manages to pronounce most of the words correctly.)

Practice: Match the phonetic vowels to the following words using the pictures to help you. The first one is already done for you.

a) Horse- 6

b) clock

c) Bull

d) Egg

e) Phone

f)  Ear

g) Boy

h) Fish

i) Bike

j) Tree

k) Car
l) Computer
m) Cat
n) Tourist
o) Boot
p) Bird
q) owl
r) chair
s) train
t) up
u) clock

Use the OALD dictionary for any unknown sounds, it's got a phonetic transcription and a button to actually listen to the words.

 

horse

 NOUN

hɔːs ; hɔːrs