Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research
University of Mohammed Kheider Biskra Faculty of Letters and Languages
Department of Foreign Languages Division of English
Student’s full name: ................................................ Teacher: Mr. Aounali
Level: 1st Year (LMD) Semester: Two
Second Homework in Phonetics
Exercise 1: Transcribe the following words:
I. Offend - Particular -Percent -Many – Richard -Fully -Head -Henceforth - Edinburgh - Oxford
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II. Half -Passport -Been -Door -Broad -Soon -Bird – Elizabeth – Albert – English - Britain - America
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III. Tone - Chair -Were -Square -Bough – Dough - They – Current - Hurry - Upon - Comma - Copy
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Exercise 2: Write the words for the transcribed utterances in the following instances:
1-/ðæt/ - /haʊˈevə/ - /əˈnʌðə/ -/ˈdɪfɪkəlt/ - /wɜ:ld/ - /ðeə/ -/ˈθʌrə/ - /wɪtʃ/ -/ˈeəriə/ - /kɔ:s/ -/ˈʌndə/
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2- /ʃʊd/ -/ˈnevə/ - /bɪˈtwi:n/ -/ˈsʌmθɪŋ/ - /pɔɪnt/ - /hɪə/ - /prəˈvaɪd/ - /lɑ:dʒ/ -/ˈnʌmbə/ - /ˈɔ:lweɪz/
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3-/ˈkwestʃən/ -/ˈpaʊə/ - /tʃeɪndʒ/ -/ˈkʌlə/ -/ˈdjʊərɪŋ/ - /jeə/ - /hu:/ - /ɪˈnʌf/ -/ˈlæŋgwɪdʒ/
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4- /ˈræðə/ - /wʌns/ - /mʌnθ/ - /vju:/ - /ɪgˈza:mpl/ - /rɪˈzʌlt/ - /mu:v/ -/ˈwɔ:tə/ - /əˈlaʊ/
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Exercise 3: Transcribe the words:
1– Michael – Potato –Direction –Realm –Sword –Hanger – Appeared – Quantity – Able
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2–Fallen – Hymn –Pertinent –Hasten –Target –Wingle – Wrestled – Example – Tough
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3– Sleep –Diesel –Keeper –Knight –Youngsters – Sky – Couples – Cattles – Slide – Slim
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Exercise 4: Give/provide two minimal pairs for each set of vowel sounds
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Exercise 5: Circle all the /ɪ/ vowel sounds and underline the /iː/ vowel sounds (two examples are given)
Big, green, people, busy, dinner, scheme, inn, please,
listen, office, pizza, repeat, Peter, scene, ready, byte.
Exercise 6: Label the following diagram
Recommendations: for$accurate$practice,$try$to$pronounce$loudly$the$sounds$you$want$to$learn$then$
listen$and$repeat$to$the$words$which$contain$those$sounds.$You$can$refer$to$the!Book of Peter Roach
in$ order$ to$ revise$ vowels$ and$ consonants$ articulation$ or$ to$ listen$ to$ them$ recited$ in English
Pronunciation in Use (Elementary) . You! can! go! to BBC English Online to$ practise$ more:$
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/pronunciation
gʊd lʌk ænd hæpi hɒlədeɪz
ɪndʒɔɪ jɔ: taɪm
N.B: you can download this document and some phonetics lectures in PDF format from these links:
http://www.scribd.com/wanglais/documents or https://www.facebook.com/groups/217344448289216/files/*
N.B: The homework must be rendered back after the holidays on the first week of the New Year 2015
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