Teacher-training - Pronunciation Quiz

1. Form a minimal pair for each of these words:
   tease low bird zoo horse wheat so walked hit bloke eyes


2. Why are the “-ed” endings on regular verbs pronounced in three different ways?


3. Think of as many words as you can which begin with the letter “w” but are pronounced with the sound/r/.


4. Think of as many country names as you can which have two syllables and are stressed on the second syllable.


5. What’s the difference between a greenhouse and a green house?


6. Think of at least five homophones for parts of the body.


7. Write down some Italian words which have the same spelling as English words but different meanings.


8. What’s unusual about these words? deer tie right desert


9. Name words where the noun and the verb have the same spelling but different pronunciation.


10. What causes “linking”?


11. Make a list of words in which a vowel or syllable is elided?


12. In the phonemic chart, how many phonemes are there in total? Of these, how many are monopthongs, how many diphthongs, and how many consonants?


13. Think of words used in English (borrowed words are OK) which start with the letter “h” but where the /h/ sound is not pronounced.


14. Write down as many words as possible which have the same vowel sound as the word “or” but in which the vowel is spelt in different ways.


15. In terms of intonation, what is the basic difference between open and closed questions?

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