英语音标发音区别

Part 1: Front Vowels

/i:/ /i/ /e/ œ/

Let's first take a look at /i:/ Practice 1:Lengthen the sentence Come to me!

Come to teawith me!

Come to tea with me by the sea.

If you are free, come to tea with me by the sea.

Do you agree, if you are free, to come to tea with me by the sea?

Read the following sentences. Pay attention to the /i/

Lengthen the sentence

He's swimming.

He's swimming in the river.

He's swimming in the river with Tim. He's swimming in the river with Tim in this pretty city.

Pay attention to the /i:/ and /i/

(1)His bicycle will last him a long time if he treats it well.

(2)Three Chinese diving teams competed in the nineteen ninety-nine.

(3)We still have time to see the film on the big screen.

Let's take a look at /e/ and /œ/ Proverbs:

All is well than ends well.

Better to do well than to say well. Birds of a feather flock together. Short passage:

I met a little boy Jack,

Who came from another land,

I couldn't speak his language,

But I took him by the hand.

Read and Compare:

Bead, bid, bed, bad

Heel, hill, hell, hal

Neat, nit, net, guat

Beat, bit, bet, bat

Seat, sit, set, sat

Eat, it, bet, at

Cheek, chick, check, chat

Song: She

She hangs out every day near by the beach,

Having a harnican falling asleep,

She looks so sexy when she's walking the sand,

Nobody ever put a ring on her hand, Swim to the oceanshore fish in the sea, She is the story the story is she

She sings to the moon and the stars in the sky

Shining from high above you shouldn't ask why

Part 2: Central Vowels

/Λ/ /ə:/ /ə/

Let's take a look at /Λ/

Lengthen the sentence

You must come.

You must come to supper.

You must come to supper with us.

You must come to supper with us and join in the fun.

Don't confuse /ə:/ and /Λ/

Bird-bud; burn-bun; fern-fun; curt-cut; hurt-hut; dirt-dust

Short passage:

Worm squirm in the earth,

When first is heard,

The murmur and chirp,

Of the early bird

Song: Bad Romance

oh-oh-oh-oh-oooh!/caught in a bad romance

Rah-rah-ah-ah-ah/mum-mum-mum-mu m-mah

Gaga-oo-la-la/want your bad romance I want you ugly/i want you disease/i want your everything/as long as it's free I want your love/ love-love-love/ i want your love

I want you drummer/ the touch of your healing/ i want you leather dirty kiss in the scene

And i want your love

Love-love-love

Part 3: Back Vowels

/a:/ /ο/ /ο:/ /u/ /u:/