This session covers:
- American English Vowels
- Vowel ‘EE’
- Vowel ‘I’
The best way to learn American vowels
is by Ear Training.
Listen carefully and repeat.
Front Vowels: (From high to low)
- EE - as in - Heat
- I - as in - Hit
- AE - as in - Hate
- EH - as in - Het (nonsense word)
- A - as in - Hat
Back Vowels: (From high to low)
- OO - as in - Boot
- U - as in - Book
- OW - as in - Boat
- AW - as in - Bought
- AH - as in - Bot (nonsense word)
Comparing Heat (EE) and Hit (I)
Remember,...
Heat is high
Hit is lower
- Heat – Hit
- Keen – Kin
- Deal – Dill
- Seek – Sick
- Seen – Sin
- Reap – Rip
- Teal - Till
- Bean –Been*
* Bean – I ate a bean (noun). –
‘high’
Been – I have been here (verb). –
‘low’
‘EE’ Vowel Sound ...remember,
smile and think high
- See
- Me
- Each
- Even
- Key
- Green
- Tree
- Very
- Happy
- Softly
- Mary
- Busy
- Finally
- Country
‘EE’ Practice
- Speeding on the Freeway
- Happily eating cheese
- He and She
- Skiing very Rapidly
- She sees a monkey eating honey. We see a pony stealing money. Who can he see? It must be me!
‘I’ Vowel Sound
- Bit
- Bill
- Lift
- Fizz
- Kitchen
- Build
- Bigger
- Chimp
- Fifth
- Listen
- Business
- Fist
- Display
- Filming
- Live
- Fish
- Discuss
- Fig
- Fifty
- Been
‘EE’ and ‘I’ Practice
(All ‘EE’ sounds are underlined.)
- The beans have been cooking since six o’clock.
- Sit in that seat by the window.
- We ate our meal, by the mill.
- The seal will live in the ocean.
- Tim’s team grinned after seeing the green field.
- Pip and Pete shipped the sheep cheaply.
- Those bins are for Bill’s beans.
- Does Jim still steal Jill’s jeans?
- The girls put concrete on Jill’s sneakers.
- Pick cherries at their peak or you will eat the pits.
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