2. Briefing Session Intensive Course in English The Chinese University of Hong Kong 12 January, 2008. The Sounds of “Chinese English” Using English Phonemic Alphabet for better Pronunciation Access to the Intensive Course in English Pronunciation on the Web

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4. What is English Pronunciation? English is a polysyllabic language  syllables  sounds: vowels + consonants  stress primary stress/  / secondary stress /  /

5. beau - ti - ful  :  /     :     /

6. development de - ve - lop - ment /          /

7. pronunciation pro - nun - ci- a - tion /           / phonetic slashes/ / extension mark/ : //  :/

8. How to master the sounds Vowels The sounds that could be heard distinctly

9. How to master the sounds Diphthongs (two vowels put together) Triphthongs (three vowels put together)

10. How to master the sounds Consonants Speech sounds “produced by completely or partly stopping the air being breathed out through the mouth” Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary

11. Easy Access to Phonemes Vowels : 12 (6 minimal pairs) Diphthongs: 8 (3 groups) Consonants: 24

12. Easy Access to Phonemes: Vowels 1.i  seat /si  /  sit /s  t/ 2.  bat /b  t/ebet /bet/ 3.  father /  f  (r)/  cup /k  p/ 4.  caught /k  t/  cot /k  t/ 5.u  fool /fu  l/  foot /f  / 6.  bird /b  d/  about /  b  t/

13.  or  ?  as in seat /  / and  as in sit /  / Feet Fit Sleep Slip Pill Peel Pretty Peter Jean Jim Bill Kiss

14. Feet/  / Fit/  / Sleep /  / Slip /  / Pill /  / Peel /  / Pretty /  / Peter /  / Little /  / Jim /  / Jean/  / Bill /  / Kiss /  /  or  ?

15. e or  ? e as in ten /  / and  as in cat /  / Bed Bad Pet Pat Black Anne Ellen Ben Betty Better Batter

16. Bed/e/ Bad /  / Pet /e/ Pat /  / Black /  / Anne /  / Ellen /e/ Ben /e/ Betty /e/ Better /e/ Batman /  / e or  ?

17.  or  ?  as in father /  (  )/ or  as in cup /  / Heart Cut Cart Hut Ask Husband Uncle Card Star Farm Truck much

18. Heart /  / Cut /  / Cart /  / Hut /  / Ask /  / Husband /  / Uncle /  / Card /  / Star /  / Farm /  / Truck /  / Much /  /  or  ?

19.  or  ?  as in saw /  / or  as in got /  / Sport Spot Forks Fox Pot Port Cot Court Bottle Doctor daughter

20.  or  ? Sport /  / Spot /  / Forks /  / Fox /  / Pot /  / Port /  / Cot /  / Court /  / Bottle /  / Doctor /  / Daughter /  /

21.  or  ?  as in too /  / or  as in put /  / Good Wool Tool Boot Full Fool Pull Pool Rude Cook Book Choose

22.  or  ? Good /  / Wool /  / Tool /  / Boot/  / Full /  / Fool /  / Pull /  / Pool /  / Rude /  / Cook /  / Book /  / Choose /  /

23.  or  ?  as in bird /  / or  as in about /  / Again Police Burn Ago Firm purse

24.  or  ? as in bird /  / or as in about /  / Again /  / Police /  / Burn /  / Ago /  / Firm /  / Purse /  /

25. Six pairs of Vowels i  seat /si  /  sit /s  t/  bat /b  t/ebet /bet/  father /  f  (r)/  cup /k  p/  caught /k  t/  cot /k  t/ u  fool /fu  l/  foot /f  l/  bird /b  d/  about /  b  t/

26. /  / /    /David /    / Richard /  : / /   :  (  ) / Peter /   /quay

27. /  / /   / happy /   / a compromise between /  / and /  :/

28. /  / /   /Ellen /  / /   /Alan /  /Alex /    (  ) / eleven

29. /   :  (  ) /Arthur /  : / /  : (  ) /car

30. /  / /   / Douglas /   (  )  /Durham

31. /  / /   / John /   / Yvonne /  : / /  :  / Audrey /  : /Sean

32. /  / /    /foot /   /full /  : / /   :  / food /   :  / rude /   : /fool

33. /  : / /   :  / bird /   : / girl

34. /  / /   / Aaron /    / Albert /   / Sharon /  :   / pneumonia /   (  ) /ulcer /  :    :  / supermarket

35. Easy Access to Phonemes: Diphthongs e  say/se  / a  five/f  v/  boy /b  /  go /g  / a  now /na  /  ear/  (r)/ e  air/e  (r)/  poor /p  (r)/

36. Chairs Cheers Bear Beer Pear Pier Rarely Really Staring steering Paper Sail Game Date Choice Make Cake Boil Joy Eye White wine Ground Brown Out Towel How Home Tone Show cold Can you get the diphthongs in these words?

37. Chairse  Cheers  Beare  Beer  Peare  Pier  Rarelye  Really  Staringe  Steering  Paper e  Sail e  Game e  Date e  Choice  Make e  Cake e  Boil  Joy  Eye a  White a  Wine a  Grounda  Browna  Outa  Towela  Howa  Home  Tone  Show  Cold 

38. /  / /    /gauge /   /Adrian

39. /  / /  / eye / I /    / indict /    / Brian / Bryan /    /Fife /    /five

40. /  / /  /oil /   /boy /   (  ) / oyster

41. /  / /   (  ) / hour /   / lounge /    / vowel

42. /  / /    /gold /    /Fiona

43. /  / /  (  ) / ear /    / Beatrice /    / query

44. /  / /   (  ) /fair /    / Mary /     /Aaron

45. /  / /   (  ) / poor /    / Europe

46.  fire/  (  ) /  sour/  (  ) /  player/  (  ) / Easy Access to Phonemes: Triphthongs

47. Easy Access to Phonemes: Consonants

48. Consonants/1  pen/  /  bad/  /  tea/  /  did/  /  cat/  /  got/  /

49. Consonants/2 leg/  /  red/  /  man/  / no/  /  sing/  /

50. Consonants/3  so/  /  zoo/  /  shoe/  / tension/  (  ) /  vision/  /

51. Consonants/4  chain/  /  jam/  /  fall/  /  van/  /  wet/  /

52. Consonants/5  thin/  /  this/  /  hat/  /  yes/  /

53. /  / voiceless /    /pop /  / voiced /    /Bob /  / voiceless /   /Ted /  / voiced /    /dead

54. /  / voiceless /     / Calvin Klein /  / voiced /   :  (  ) /Gordon

55. / / voiced /  / light /  / voiced /   / right /   /Brian / Bryan /     /Larry /   /Nelly

56. /  / voiced /   / might / / voiced /  /night /  / voiced /      /singing /     / finger

57. /  / voiceless /   /bus /   /buzz / z / voiced /  / voiceless /   /bush

58. selfish shellfish sitting on the shelf an annual fund raising car racing game

59. /  / voiceless /   /fan /  / voiced /   /van /   /vine /  / voiced /   / wine

60. /  / voiced /  :   / usually /   (  ) /vision /    (  ) / pleasure

61. /  / voiceless /   (  ) /chair /   / cherry /   /jam /   /joke /   :  /jeep /  / voiced

62. /  //  / cherryJerry cheapjeep chokejoke Jerry and Cherry like to share choking jokes about their cheap jeep.

63. /  / voiceless /   /thin /   / thick /   /this /   :  /these /   /the /  / voiced

64. /  / voiceless /   /hat /   / hotel

65. /  / voiced /   /yes /   : / you /   (  ) / year /   : / new /   :  (  )  / student

66. Do they have the same sounds? Homophones in English Pronunciation flourflower/  / writeright/  / sizesighs/  / site cite sight/  /

67. More about Homophones? throw through /  :/ /  / John join /  / /  / through threw /  /

68. What do the pronunciation alphabet tell us? /  bju:t  f(  )  / beautiful /   / exist /   / millennium /  (  ) / thankful /  / xerox /    / exit

69. How to apply English pronunciation alphabet fatigue tuberculosis dermatologist phlegm   ：   ：   ：  tsunami  ： 

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