Pronunciation Workshop ----美式英语发音

A E I O U

15 Vowel Sounds,Some 10different spellings

Size,Shape&Tension of muscles in your Mouth,Tongue,&Lips.

Ear Training:

Front Vowels:(high→low)

  eg: EE   I    AE   EH   A 

      Heat Hit Hate Het Hat    

&

Back Vowels:(high→low)

    eg:OO    Uh   Oh     Aw    Ah

       Boot  Book Boat Bought Bot

Paired Words:

Heat Hit ;Keen Kin; Deal Dill; Seek Sick; Seen Sin;Reap Rip ;Teal Till;

Bean Been

double"e":#ee#:mostly /i:/high up;

but Been/i/(low down)

EE(high):Feed ,Seen ,Bean

See, Me ,Each, Even, Key,

Green, tree, very, happy, softly, Mary, busy, finally, country,

Speeding on the freeway.

Happily eating cheese.

He and she skiing very rapidly.

Paragraph:

She sees a monkey eating honey.

We see a pony stealing money.

Who can he see?It must be me!

/i/(low down):

Hit ,bit ,bill ,lift ,fizz ,kitchen ,build ,bigger ,chimp ,fifth ,listen ,business ,fist ,display ,filming ,live ,fish ,discuss ,fig ,fifty ,been.

EE & i Practise Sentences:

 He hit the baseball, and felt the heat.