Speech 1342 Voice and Diction Mid-term
Practice Test 1
Identify the IPA sound in the following words:
___ ache
___ handy
___ could
___ employ
___ sight
___ sewing
Identify the IPA sound in the following words:
[ɔɚ ] ordeal
[ɔɪ] ointment
[ʌ] double
[o] coal
[ɛ] gentle
[ɪ] thin
Identify the IPA sounds in the following sentences:
Dance is one of the most fundamental of human activities. It is an idea both reasonable and
acceptable that, when primitive man had satisfied his basic needs for food and shelter, he
should express his emotions through movement, through rudimentary dance, through the most
natural and immediate channel of expression – his body. Dance, even in this lowly form,
became the earliest of the arts, the germ from which other arts evolved.
[ɑʊ] Where’s the brown towel you took outside?
[æ] The banner was at the head of the band.
[ə] Across the way was an apartment that belonged to my grandmother.
Write a sample word for the following IPA sounds:
[ɝ]
[ʊ]
[i]
[e]
[ɑɪ]