PRONUNCIATION TEST_TEACHERS’ VERSION

A. Individual Sounds

Pairs of Sounds Target sounds to be checked

Man- men /ɑː/-/e/
Hurt-heart /ɜː/-/ɑː/
seat-sit /iː/- /i/
Ankle-uncle /æ/-/ʌ/
Pool-pull /uː/ - /ʊ/
Plays-place /s/-/z/
Wrote-road /t/-/d/
Bag-back /g/-/k/
pill-bill /p/-/b/
Wash-watch /ʃ/-/tʃ/
Cheap-jeep /tʃ/-/dʒ/
Towel-tower /l/-/r/
Singer-single /ŋ/-/g/
Bang-bank /ŋ/-/ŋk/
Try, dry, class, glass, bring, swear, floor, Consonant groups at the beginning of the
scream, street words:
/tr/,/dr/,/kl/,/gl/, /br/, /sw/, /fl/, /skr/, /str/
Film, tenth, help, first Consonant groups at the end of the words:
/lm/, /nθ/, /lp/, /st/
Played, checked, decided, books, watches, “ed-” endings and “s” endings
scissors

B. Syllables and Word Stress Patterns

Words Stress patterns to be checked
Brother, artist, teacher, hotel Two-syllable nouns
Famous, happy, narrow, random Two-syllable adjectives
Answer, listen, happen, begin, finish Two-syllable verbs
Record(n)-record(v), permit(n)-permit(v) Two-syllable nouns and verbs
Bus stop, book shop, traffic light, first-class, hand Compounds
made
Vegetable, Internet, international, station, Stressed syllable in longer words
computer
Sentence Stress, Intonation and Other Aspects of Connected Speech
“My favourite subjects at school were sciences, especially Chemistry and Biology. I’ve always been good with
numbers, so I was good at Mathematics. I didn’t really like the social science subjects like Literature, History and
Geography, and that was strange when I went to university I did Sociology.”

NOTE: The above passage for reading aloud is for evaluating the student’s pronunication in general. However, more emphasis
should be put on these following aspects: sentence stress and intonation (at the end of the statements, item listing), linking
sounds, pause, contraction forms and weak forms.