Practical Phonetics. Lesson 1

Main terms
Phonetics is a branch of linguistics that studies how humans produce and perceive sounds (e.g. word and sentence stress, sounds, syllabic structure and intonation).
A sound is a speech realization of a letter.
A letter is a written character of the language

alphabet

Consonants
A consonant is a sound in the spoken language which is pronounced with an obstruction of the vocal tract such as lips, tongue and teeth.
There are twenty-one consonant sounds:

Consonants which produce two or three sounds:

The consonant combinations which give one sound:

VOWELS
A vowel is a speech sound which is produced without any obstruction or air-closure in the vocal tract.
Vowels are: a, e, i, o, u, y.

Syllables

Выберите и прочитайте слова открытого типа слога, а затем закрытого:
Side, smile, bring, pile, disc, slide, his, mix, king, mice, bike, fish, dinner, fit, pie, pipe, pink, mile, chin, fill, pig, him, hip, ink, life, if.

Прочитайте:
Nick has a fine kite.
Pete has five pink pigs and nine chicks.
I like milk and pie.
Mike likes to ride a bike.
His fish is thin and his stick is thick.
Bill likes winter and spring.
Hi, I am fine.
I like to drink milk for dinner.
Bring five, six or nine dishes with chips

Выберите и прочтите слова открытого слога, а затем закрытого:
back, hand, face, paper, apple, table, map, cat, flat, bag, cake, late, game, flag, rat, rate, lake, man, wave.

Прочитайте:
A fat cat sat on a mat and had a black rat.
Pat has a cat and a hat.
Kate, take a plate.
Sam hates apples.
Lamp stands on the table.
Make the same cake.
Catch the bad rat.
I am glad of plate of jam.

Выберите и прочитайте слова сначала со звуком [ı:], а затем со звуком [e]:
Clean, felt, please, street, fence, next, press, get, been, bell, best, chess, deep, end, geese, steel, smell, deep, agree, kept, get, well, team, tell, went, wheel