1.Which of the following words contains a short vowel:
a. Touch
b. Smooth
c. Mare
d. Bear
2. The English ............end in /i/
a. Closing diphthongs
b. Centring diphthongs
c. Tripthongs
d. Diphthongs
3. Are the combinations of two single vowel
a. consist a glide from one vowel to another => dipthongs
b. are two single vowels appearing within a syllable
4. Which of the followings is not a criterion to classify English simple vowel?
a. Tongue height
b. Tongue part
c. Voicing
d. Length of sound
5. Vowels followed by nasal consonants are
a. Lengthened
b. Devoiced
c. Shortened
d. Nasalized
6. /i:/ and //u:/ are different in:
a. Tongue position
b. length
c. muscular tension
d. lip shape
7. Which of following diphthongs is pronounced differently from the others?
a. really
b. hear
c. fear
d. bear
8. which of the vowels in the following words is pronounced different from the others?
a. Pour
b. Touch
c. Double
d. Country
9: /i:/ in ......... is shorter than the others:
a. Mean
b. Meat
c. Bead
d. Bee
10. The sound beginning with a mid central vowel, the gliding towards a high back
vowels:
a. ɪə̯
b. ai
c. əʊ̯
d. aʊ̯
11. Which of the statement is true?
a. Vowels and consonants differ from each other in relation to how much they
obstruct the air flow and what position they can occupy?
b. Vowels and consonants differ from each other in their distribution
c. Vowels and consonants differ form each other in the way the air flow is obstructed
when producing the sounds.
12. / ɔ:/ in ........... is the longest
a. thought
b. store
c. fork
d. port
13. Which of the following is true?
a. All vowels are centers of syllables
b. Consonants are produced without obstruction of the air stream
c. All consonants are voiced
d. Vowels are produced with a complete closure in the vocal tract
14. 1d 3b 2c 4a
15. In the words given below indicate…
a. …front vowels:
black, border, bury, consonant, thirteen, handkerchief
b. … rounded vowels:
daughter, bandit, artillery, because, armchair, everybody
c. … long vowels:
room, monster, velar, attack, correspond, university
d. .... high vowels
employee, peasant, treachery, question, sugar, reading
e. … closing diphthongs:
miner, appreciate, pronounce, nobody, towards, tourism
f. … centring diphthongs
serious, heroine, imitation, Europe, Riviera, fairness
16. Classify these vowels in terms of: Vowel height, backness, lip position, length.
 [æ] as in cat
 [e] as in bed
 [ɒ] as in log
 [ʊ] as in took
 [ʎ] as in cut
 [i:] as in see
 [ə] as in ago
17. a) State whether the vowel sounds of the words in each pair are the same (S) or
different (D)
b) Consulting the list of English vowels in your text, give the phonetic symbol for the
vowel in each word/ pair of words
1) say- bake
6) receive – believe
11)they– weigh
16)laugh-caught
S or D-----
S or D: -----
S or D: -----
S or D: -----
Symbol: --
Symbol: ----
Symbol: ----
Symbol: ----
2) show- shoe
7) height – site
S or D: -----
S or D: -----
S or D: -----
S or D: -----
Symbol: ----
Symbol: ----
Symbol: ----
Symbol: ---
8) blood – food
13) cow – slow
3) meat- great
S or D: -----
S or D: -----
12)mother–stop
S or D: -----
17) buy – time
18) read (pres) –
read (past)
Symbol: -----
Symbol: ----
Symbol: ----
S or D: ----Symbol: ----
4) laid – sad
9) sigh – fly
14)bother – nod
19) low – plow
S or D: -----
S or D: -----
S or D: -----
S or D: -----
Symbol: ----
Symbol: ----
Symbol: ----
Symbol: ----
5) some – nun
10) new – do
15) head – bet
S or D: -----
S or D: -----
S or D: -----
Symbol: ----
Symbol: ----
Symbol: ----
20)
grain
gauge*
S or D: ----Symbol: ----
18. matching
/iː/
back-central, high, rounded /ʊ/
/ɪ/
low, central, non-rounded /ʌ/
/ʊ/
back, high, rounded /uː/
/uː/
mid, back, non-rounded /ɔː/
/e/
low, back, rounded /ɒ/
/ɜː/
front, high, non-rounded
/ɔː/
low, front, non-rounded
/æ/
mid, front, non-rounded
/ʌ/
front-central, high, non-rounded
/ɑː/
low, back, non-rounded
/ɒ/
mid, central, non-rounded
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