Words pronounced with /ᴧ/	Accomplish another borough brother colour come comfort company country courage cover does done monkey double dozen front glove government honey London love Monday money month mother none nothing once one onion other rough shove some son southern sponge stomach thorough ton touch tough trouble wonder won worry young	
Words pronounced with /ɒ/	Accommodate along body bomb bother bottom collar common congress doll gone donkey fox homage honour long modest nominate novelty pompous pond soft song tonsil tropical wallow hollow wander want wash watch what yacht	
 
See the difference between the following words:
•	Hat/hate
•	Tin/tiny
•	Ham/harm
•	Not/now

1.	Tick where appropriate.
	e	u:	i:	ɑ:	ᴧ	ʊ	Ə	ɪ	æ	ɒ	 ɜː	ɔ:	
Got													
Foot													
Work													
Sit													
Wet													
Cat													
But													
About													
Mood													
Feet													
Core													
Ask 													

2.	Tick/describe the phonetic symbol representing the following descriptions of vowels.
	e	u:	i:	ɑ:	ᴧ	ʊ	Ə	ɪ	æ	ɒ	ɜː 	ɔ:	
High front tense vowel													

													

													

3.	Give the symbol for the following consonants.
Descriptions 	Phonetic
 symbol	
 Bilabial fortis plosive		
Dental lenis fricative		
Alveolar fortis fricative		
Alveolar lenis fricative		
Velar lenis plosive		
Post-alveolar lenis affricate		
Post-alveolar fortis fricative		
Labiodentals fortis fricative		

4.	Transcribe the following list of words in RP:
Eats		Said		Needed		Stayed 		Aren’t 		
Shoes		Says		Wanted		Won’t		Viewed		
Loved 		Helped		Climbed		It’d 		Giga 		
Women    		Sign		Shan’t 		Philosophy  		Houses		
Handsome 		Sure		We’d 		It’s		I’ll		
Can’t 		Wicked   		Hasn’t		Breathe		Skiing		
Asked 		Oceans		Issue		Breath		Iron		
Health		Joyful		Clothes 		Tired 		Younger  		

5.	Mark the following vowels/diphthongs on the vowel chart.

6.	Provide the vowel (pure or diphthong) that corresponds to the list of words below:
………	…..	………	………	………	……	………	………	
Now
Cow
Bough 	Low
Both
Hose
Rose
Dose
Foe
Dough 	Moth
Broth
Bother
Cough
Gone
Bomb
Doll	Mother
Brother
Tough
Thorough
Some
Done
	There
Pear
Bear
	Here
Hear
Dear
Beard 	Read
Bead
Meat
Suite
Weak
	Read
Dead
Said
Threat
Debt
	
………	…..	……	……	………	………	……….	
Lose
Shoe
Goose
Choose
Food
Through
Tomb
Do
Few 	Could
Good 	Horse
Ward 
Cord 	Worse 
Word
Heard 
Absurd
	Card 
Yarn
Jar	Go
Mould
Sew
Know
Home
Lone
Comb
Roll	Pay
Paid
Say
Great
Straight
Break 	

7.	Irregular spelling and pronunciation. 
ea	ch	ou	ei	
Beach
Break
Weather
Learn
Bear
Near
Hearth 	Microchip
Machine
Mechanic
	Flout
Trouble
Cough
Boulder
Soup
Thought
Tour 	Height
Perceive
Reign
Heir
Heifer
Heist 	

8.	Decipher the transcribed words into regular spelling form.
ðæt   haʊˈevə   əˈnʌðə   ˈdɪfɪkəlt   wɜːld   ðeə   ˈθʌrə wɪʧ   ˈeərɪə   kɔːs   ˈʌndə  

 ʃʊd   ˈnevə   bɪˈtwiːn   ˈsʌmθɪŋ   pɔɪnt   hɪə   prəˈvaɪd   lɑːʤ   ˈnʌmbə   ˈɔːlweɪz

 ˈkwesʧən   ˈpaʊə   ʧeɪnʤ   ˈkʌlə  ˈdjʊərɪŋ   jɪə   huː   ɪˈnʌf   ˈlæŋgwɪʤ   ˈrɑːðə 

  wʌns   mʌnθ   vjuː   ɪgˈzɑːmpl    rɪˈzʌlt   muːv   ˈwɔːtə   əˈlaʊ

9.	Write down the phonetic symbols representing the following descriptions, and illustrate each of the sounds with two English words.
a)	A high front tense unrounded vowel	b)	A voiced labiodental fricative	
c)	A low back lax rounded vowel	d)	A voiceless alveolar fricative	
e)	A mid front unrounded vowel	f)	A voiced palate-alveolar affricate	
g)	A mid front lax unrounded vowel	h)	A voiceless glottal fricative	
i)	A high back lax rounded vowel	j)	A voiceless bilabial stop	
k)	A low back lax rounded vowel	l)	A voiceless dental fricative	
m)	A high front tense rounded vowel	n)	A voiced velar stop	

10.	Do the following pairs of vowels have the same or different quality of tenseness?
a)	Back – sat	b)	Hide – height	
c)	Shop – caught	d)	Least – heed	
e)	Bid – key	f)	Drug – cook	
g)	Luck – flick	h)	Sink – fit	
i)	Fill – feed	j)	Oak – own	
k)	Food – foot	l)	Sun – bed	
m)	Fell – fail	n)	Got – farm	

11.	Indicate whether the following statements are true or false.
a.	Every vowel symbol represents one specific articulation.	T / F	
b.	A sound whose articulation involves movement from one vowel position to another is called a diphthong.	T / F	
c.	The terms ‘high’ ‘low’ and ‘central’ refer to the distance between the jaws.	T / F	
d.	Tense vowels are usually long in all languages.	T / F	
e.	A monophthong is described along five dimensions.	T / F	
f.	The concept of vowel height is relative.	T / F	
g.	All diphthongs are long, tense and central.	T / F	
h.	The right side of the vowel quadrilateral represents the back of the oral cavity.	T / F	

12.	Circle the words that contain a vowel that fits the description on the left.
Low	Small   bat  great   car   tea	
Front	River   song   tell   trap   bright	
Back	Loud   so   left    mud    trip	
High	Shore   shop    bank    fall    moose	
Rounded	Meet   coarse   such   group   cry	
Central /mid	About   learn   bye   met   night	

13.	The following are descriptions of RP vowels. Give the symbols for each vowel and a word containing that vowel. Then mark in the positions of these vowels on the vowel chart. Use one chart for the vowels in a-c, and the other chart for the diphthongs in d-e.
a.	Lax front mid (between high-mid and low-mid)
b.	Tense back low (or better tense back open)
c.	Lax back fairly high (fairly close)
d.	Diphthong arising from low front to high front (i.e., from open front to close front)
e.	Diphthong rising from centre mid to fairly high back.

14.	Look at the two vowel sounds in each word. Match the vowel sounds in the words with the pairs of phonemic symbols listed. There is one extra option which you do not need to use.
Curly
Over
Village
Paper
Homework
Learner
Nightclub
Baby 	əʊ         ə
eɪ          ɪ
əʊ         ɜː
ɜː          ə
aɪ          ə
aɪ          ʌ
ɪ            ɪ
eɪ          ə
ɜː   ɪ