BBC Pronunciation: Sounds and Spelling


This material for Intermediate - Advanced learners. It provide the exercises and also the answer key.

Pronunciation

Sounds and spelling

There are 26 letters in the English alphabet but there are 44 sounds in the English language. This means that the number of sounds in a word is not always the same as the number of letters.


The word 'CAT' has three letters and three sounds but the word 'CATCH' has five letters but still only three sounds.

If we write these words using phonemic symbols, we can see exactly how many sounds they have.


CAT is written /k æ t/

CATCH is written /k æ ʧ/


In 'CATCH' the three letters TCH are one sound represented by one phonemic symbol /ʧ/


Try the exercise below to help develop your knowledge of English pronunciation.


Pronunciation Exercise
Sounds and spelling
Exercise
Look at the words below and put them into the correct column based on the number of sounds.
Clue:
The number of letters and the number of sounds is always different in these words

horse
through
judge
enough
sugar
caught
island
daughter
knowledge
cupboard
cow
know
business
singing
more
carrot
chemist
treasure
thinking
laugh
heart
singer
thorough
door
check



2 sounds
3 sounds
4 sounds
5 sounds
6 sounds






PRONUNCIATION EXERCISE
SOUNDS AND SPELLING

ANSWER
2 sounds
3 sounds
4 sounds
5 sounds
6 sounds
Cow
Horse
Singer
Carrot
Chemist
/k aʊ/
/h ɔ: s/
/s ɪ ŋ ǝ/
/k æ r ə t/
/k e m ɪ s t/
Know
Caught
Daughter
Island
Business
/n əʊ/
/k ɔ: t/
/d ɔ: t ə/
/aɪ l ə n d/
/b ɪ z n ɪ s/
Door
Heart
Thorough
Knowledge
Thinking
/d ɔ:/
/h ɑ: t/
/ɵ ʌ r ə/
/n ɒ l ɪ ʤ/
/ɵ ɪ ŋ k ɪ ŋ/
More
Through
Enough
Treasure

/m ɔ:/
/ɵ r u:/
/ɪ n ʌ f/
/t r e Ʒ ə/


Judge
Sugar
Singing


/ʤ ʌ ʤ/
/ʃ ʊ g ə/
/s ɪ ŋ ɪ ŋ/


Laugh

Cupboard


/l ɑ: f/

/k ʌ b ə d/


Check




/ʧ e k/






(Source: http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/pronunciation/pdf/exercises/sound_spelling_exercise.pdf)
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