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Pronunciation in Use Elementary

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To the 5
student To 7
the teacher 9
Map of
Section A Sounds and spelling
contents
1 How many letters, how many sounds? Spelling and 1
2 Pizza for dinner /iː/ and /ɪ/ pronunciation 0
3 A spoonful of sugar /uː/ and /ʊ/ 1
4 Father and mother /ɑː/ and /ʌ/ 2
5 A dog in the corner /ɒ/ and /ɔː/ 1
6 Bread and jam /e/ and /æ/ 4
7 My birthday’s on Thursday /ɜː/ 1
8 Here and there /ɪə/ and /eə/ 6
9 Have a great time! /eɪ/, /aɪ/ and /ɔɪ/ 1
10 Old town /əʊ/ and /aʊ/ 8
11 Pack your bags /p/ and /b/ 2
12 Twenty days /t/ and /d/ 0
13 Cats and dogs /k/ and /g/ 2
14 November the first /f/ and /v/ 2
15 Both together /θ/ and /ð/ 2
16 It’s the wrong size, isn’t it? /s/ and /z/ 4
17 Fresh fish, usually /ʃ/ and /ʒ/ 2
18 Chips and juice /tʃ/ and /dʒ/ 6
19 My hungry uncle /m/, /n/ and /ŋ/ 2
20 How many hours? /h/ 8
21 That’s life! /l/ 3
22 What terrible weather! /r/ 0
23 What’s the news? /w/ and /j/ 3
24 Sunglasses or umbrella? Consonant groups in the middle 2
of words 3
25 Train in the rain Consonant groups at the beginning of 4
words 3
26 Pink and orange Consonant groups at the end of 6
Section
wordsB Syllables and words 3
27
28 One week
Last Consonant
house, two houses groups across words
Syllables 8
6
29 Wait a minute – where’s the waiter? Strong and weak 4
4
vowels 0
6
30 Single or return? Stress in two-syllable words 4
6
31 Begin at the beginning Stress in longer words 2
6
32 Where’s my checklist? Stress in compound words 4
8
Section C Phrases, sentences and grammar 4
7
33 Phrases and pauses Reading aloud 4
0
7
34 Speak it, write it, read it Linking words together 1 6
7
4
35 Me and you, you and me Linking words together 2 4
2
7
36 Take me to the show, Jo Rhythm 8
6
37 Hey, wait for me! Strong and weak forms 1: Pronouns 5
7
0
38 And what’s his name? Strong and weak forms 2: Possessives, 8
5
conjunctions, prepositions 8
39 There’s a spider Strong and weak forms 3: Articles, 2
0
8
comparatives, ‘there’ 5
8
6
4
40 Who was that? Strong and weak forms 4: Auxiliary verbs 2
8
5
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41 They’re here! Contractions 9


42 It’s George’s birthday Pronouncing -s 0
endings 9
43 I looked everywhere Pronouncing past 2
Section D Conversation
tenses 9
44 Not half past two, half past three Intonation for old and new 4
96
45 And suddenly …
information Intonation in storytelling 98
46 Really? That’s amazing! Being a good listener 10
47 I know when it is, but not where Important words in 0
conversation 1 10
48 Finished? I’ve just started! Important words in conversation 2
2 10
49 No, thanks, I’m just looking Intonation in phrases and 4
Section E Reference
sentences 1 10
50 Fine, thanks
E1 Chart Intonation
of phonemic in phrases and sentences 2
symbols 116
E2 Guide for speakers of specific 010
languages 118
E3 Sound pairs 1
E4 From spelling to sound 11
E5 The alphabet 3
E6 Pronouncing numbers 12
E7 Homopho
Pronouncing geographical 7
names nes 13
E8
Ke 13
0
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Acknowledgeme 16
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1 How many letters, how many sounds?


Information

Spelling and pronunciation


A
🎧 All sections with this symbol 🎧 are on the recording. Listen
to them while you read this page.
A2a
There are 26 letters in the English alphabet.
🎧 ABC D EFG H IJKLM N O PQ R ST UVW X YZ
There are five vowel letters. A E I O U
A2b
And there are 21 consonant letters. B C D F G H J K L M N P Q R S T
🎧 V W X Y Z But there are more thanb40e vowel
s t and consonant sounds
A2c in English. 1 2 3 4
🎧 In some words, the number of letters is the same as the number
d e n t i s t
sounds. 7 letters, 7
ofdentist
A2d best sounds
4 letters, 4 sounds 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

But sometimes the number of sounds is different from the


number of letters. In green, ee is one sound, and in happy, pp is
🎧 one sound. g r e e n h a p p y
A3a
green 5 letters, 4 sounds 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4

In bread, ea is one sound. b r e a d


🎧 bread 5 letters, 4 1 2 3 4
A3b sounds
In some words there are silent letters (letters with no sound). In
🎧 listen, t is silent. l i s t e n
A3c listen 6 letters, 5 sounds. 1 2 3 - 4 5

In some words, one letter is two sounds. The x in six is two


🎧 sounds like k + s. six 3 letters,s 4 isounds
x
A3d 1 2 3 4

C We sometimes write the same sound differently in different words. For


example, the e in red
sounds like the ea in bread.
🎧 A4a Sometimes two words have the same pronunciation but different

spellings. (See Section E8


Homophones.)
know – no
A: Do you know? B: No, I don’t.

🎧 A4b And sometimes two words have the


same spelling but different pronunciations.
read (infinitive and present tense) – read (past
tense)
/best/ A: Do/'dentIst/
best you wantdentist to read the /gri:n/ green /'hæpi/ happy /'kÅfi/
newspaper?
coffee /'lIs@n/six
/sIks/ listen
/sÅks/ socks /bred/ bread /n@U/ no /n@U/
B: No, thanks,
/red/ I read it this morning.
read (past
/Tri:/ three knowtense) /red/ red/ri:d/ read (infinitive and present tense)
🎧A4c Because there are more sounds than
The symbol ' (look at the beginning of the symbols for dentist, happy,
coffee,
letters, welisten) comes before
use symbols stressed syllables (see Section B Syllables and
for pronunciation.
10 words).
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Section A Sounds and spelling

Exercises
1.1 letters
Write the numbersounds
of letters and the number of sounds in these words.
green 5 4
1 all
2 back
3 could
4 knee
5 sixty
6 thing
7 who
8 address

Check with the Key (on page 138). Then listen and repeat.
🎧A5
1.2 Some pronunciation symbols
EXAMPLE best are easy. Write these words in their normal spelling.
1 /bIg/
/best/ 2 /dres/ 3 4 /gIv/
5 6 /frend/ 8
/help/ /nekst/ 7 /'veri/ /wel/
Check with the Key. Then listen and repeat.
🎧A6
All five words in each group have the same vowel letter – a, e, i, o or u – but one has a different
vowel sound. Circle the word with the different vowel sound in each group.
1.3
EXAMPLE
on top stop one gon
e
1 give time sit think rich
2 apple bad wash catch ban
k
3 much bus sun push up
4 many maths man hat flat
Check with the Key. Then listen and repeat.
🎧A7
Write words that rhyme (the end part of the word sounds the same).
1.4 EXAMPLE
red be_ _d
1 key tr_ _
2 blue sh_ _
3 not w_ _
_
4 one r_ _
5 date w_ _
_
6 lie w_ _
7 so sh_ _
8 beer n_ _ _
Check with the Key. Then listen and repeat.
🎧
A8

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2 Pizza for dinner


Information

/i:/ and /I/


A How to make the sound /i:/ front of

🎧 tongue up wide
A9a • /i:/ is a long sound. Look at the diagram. mouth
Listen and then say the sound. Make your
mouth wide, like a smile. Your tongue touches
the sides of your teeth. Target sound: /i:/
B Sound and spelling
• /i:/ is usually spelled ee or ea. Listen and say
🎧 these words. see agree eat seat
A9b team
• Listen and say these other words
ie field
with /i:/. piece
e these metre secret evening equal Peter Europea Chines
🎧 museum
Japanes complet n e
A9c e e
ey key litre pizza police machine Can you see the sea?
i ski magazine
kilo
• Now listen and say these sentences. You will
🎧 eo people
need to pause the recording to give yourself
A9d enough time to repeat.
1 Can you see the sea?
2 A piece of pizza,
please. 3 Peter’s in the
team.
4 A kilo of peaches
How and toamake
litre ofthe sound /I/
• /I/ is a short sound. Look at the diagram. Listen
cream.
🎧 5
a nPlease
d then can
teach
you sound. Make your mouth a
say the
me to speakfor
A10a bit less wide than
Portuguese?
/i:/. Your tongue is a bit further back in your front of
tongue up
mouth than for /i:/. Target sound: /I/
D Sound and spelling
• /I/ is usually spelled i. Listen a n d say these jaw down (a little)
🎧 words.
A10b if listen miss dinner swim
• Listen and say these other
words with /I/. busy business
🎧 building system
A10c
• Now listen and say these
phrases. 1 fifty-six
2 dinner in the
🎧 5kitchen
big business
3 a
🎧
A10d
cinema
A10e Note: Eightticket
letters of
4 a picture of a
building
the alphabet have the sound

/i:/. Listen and repeat.


Bagree
C Dsounds
Vowel E equal
G PinTunstressed
Vkitchensyllables
museum Peter
often have picture
the weak pizza
vowel /@/. Listen and
F Note: Units
🎧 A10g
A10f
repeat.
There 2is to
sometimes
10 an /i/ sound at the end of a word in an unstressed syllable (see Section

B
focus on vowel sounds in
Syllables and words), e.g. happy, coffee, busy. This sound is like /i:/ but shorter. Listen and repeat.
12 stressed syllables coffee
happy (see Section B
busy sixty
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Section A Sounds and spelling

Exercises
2.1 email evening
Put policein thesecret
these /i:/ words dialogues.Steve TV

1 A: What shall we do this


? B: Let’s stay at home and .
2 watch
A: Let me read .
B: N o – it’s a secret
that
3 !A: You know my ?
friend B: Yes.
A: Well, he’s got a new job. He’s joined the
! to check your answers. Check with the Key. Then listen and repeat.
Listen What shall we do?
🎧A11
2.2 Find the /I/ words from these clues. million .
1,000,000
1 You can A
EXAMPLE use a
thousand to go up and down in a 12
1
2 There are
building.
thousand is sixty
a seconds in a 2
.3 A is a book of words to help you with
your English.
4It’s too warm in here – open the
. 5 Would you like a with your
coffee? 6 Birds and planes have .
7 You can see yourself in a .
8 Don’t drop – put it in a
bin!
Listen to check your answers. Check with the Key.
🎧 Then listen and repeat.
A12
2.3 Circle all the /i:/ sounds and underline all the /I/ sounds.

big busy dinner green in listen meet office people pizza


give
pleas repeat six tea three
e
Listen to check your answers. Check with the Key. Then listen and repeat.
🎧A13
2.4 Match the beginnings
EXAMPLE Let’s haveandpizza
endings
forofdinner
the sentences. a repeat.
1. We’re always b people in the
busy museum.
23 Would
Give me you like
that c six
4 tea
bigThere were only o’clock. d in
5 Listen
three the office. e
6and
Let’s meet or coffee?
at f green
Check with the Key. Then listen and repeat.
book,
🎧A14 please.
g for
2.5 Listen and circle the word you hear. Check with the Key. If any of these are difficult for you, go to
dinner.
Section
1 leaveE3/ Sound
live pairs(
forsound
further practice.
pair
🎧 2 knee / near 1) ( sound
A15 3 litter / letter pair 2) (
sound pair 3)
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3 A spoonful of sugar
Information

/u:/ and /υ/


A How to make the sound /u:/ back of
🎧 • /u:/ is a long sound. Look at the diagram. tongue up lips rounded

Listen and then say the sound. Make your


A16a lips into a tunnel shape.
Your tongue is a long way back in your
lips forward
mouth. Target sound: /u:/
B Sound and spelling
• /u:/ is often spelled oo, ou, oe, u, ue o r ew. Listen a n d
🎧 say these words.
A16b
too group shoe blue
• When the spelling is u or ew, there is often a /j/ sound before the /u:/.
🎧 Listen and say these words.
A16c
music new
• There are also other spellings of /u:/. Listen and say these other words
🎧 with
two /u:/.
fruit
A16d
• juice
Now listen and say these
phrases.

🎧 1
2
me too
work in groups
A16e
3 new shoes
4 red and blue
5 listen to the music
7
6 fruit juice
forty-two
F Note: /ju:/ is the name of the letter U in the

alphabet. back of lips rounded


tongue up (a little)
• /U/ is a short sound. Look at the diagram.
🎧 How to and
Listen make the
then sound
say /υ/ Your tongue is
the sound.
A17a not so far back as for /u:/. Target sound: /U/
lips forward
D Sound and spelling (a little)

🎧 • /U/
full
is often spelled u, oo o r ou. Listen a n d say these
sugar book foot
A17b words.
would
• Listen and say this other word

🎧 with /U/. woman


• Now listen and say these
A17c
phrases.
1 My bag’s full.
🎧 2
3
Where’s my book?
my left foot
A17d
4 a kilo of sugar
5 Who’s that woman?

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Exercises
3.1 food fourCircle
June lookwithnews
the words room
/u:/. (There school soup
are nine.) spoon town
sugar
Tuesda tw
y o answers. Check with the Key. Then listen and repeat.
Listen to check your
🎧A18
3.2 1Put
Dotheyou
/u:/like
words fromfood
fast Exercise 3.1 in the
sentences.
2? Are you coming to
3 It’s
? the .
4second
Let’s watch
of .
the
5 is over
6 Here’s a there.
for your
.
Listen to check your answers. Check with the Key. Then listen and repeat.
🎧A19
3.3 Circle the words with /U/. (There are
book cookery cough could good
six.)
thoug looking lunch soon sugar through
ht
Listen to check your answers. Check with the Key. Then listen and repeat.
🎧
A20 Put the /U/ words from Exercise 3.3 in the sentences.
1 Do you take ?
3.4 2 you help me? I’m for cookery .
a
🎧A21 Listen to check your answers. Check with the Key. Then listen and repeat.

3.5 1Circle
Is itthe wordstrue?
really that have /u:/ or /U/, then put them
6 in
I’l the
be correct
ready soon.
column.2 You’re standing on my foot! 7Here’s your ticket – don’t
3 Are you a good cook? lose it! 8 Go through that
4 Where’s my toothbrush? door over there. 9 M y keys!
5 Do you push or pull to open Where did I put them?
this/ door? /U/
u:/ foot
true

Listen to check your answers. Check with the Key. Then listen and repeat.
🎧A22
3.6 Listen and circle the word you hear. Check with the Key. If any of these are difficult for you, go to
1Section
pool E3 Sound pairs
/ pull (forsound
further pair
practice.
🎧 2 look / luck 4) ( sound
A23 3 soup / soap pair 5) (
sound pair 6)

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4 Father and mother


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/ɑ:/ and /л/


A How to make the sound /ɑ:/ back of
tongue
🎧 • /A:/ is a long sound. Look at the diagram. down
Listen and then say the sound. Open your
A24a
mouth wide. Target sound: /A:/
jaw down
B Sound and spelling (a little)
• /A:/ is usually spelled a o r
🎧 ar. Listen a n d say these
after afternoon ask answer bath bathroom can’t class danc fas
A24b father
words. glass tomato bar card star e t
car
• Listen and say these other words with /A:/. t
🎧 aunt laugh heart half (The letter far l in half is
A24c silent.)
park
• Listen and say these sentences.
1 How far’s the car park? star
🎧 2 We went to a large bar full of film stars.
A24d 3 We’re starting in half an hour.
• In words with a letter r after the /A:/ sound, most Americans and some British people pronounce the
🎧 r. Listen to the same sentences, this time with the letter rs pronounced.
A24e
• Some people, especially in the north of England, pronounce the letters a or au as /æ/ in some of
Important these words. Listen.
for listening
after afternoon ask answer aunt bath bathroom class dance fast glass laugh


🎧 1 See
Listen
you
A24g totomorrow
these sentences, first with
afternoon. 3 We/A:/,
were laughing and dancing in the
A24
then classroom.
with /æ/.
Ff 2Note: Themy
I’l ask name of the letter R is pronounced 4/A:/
aunt. or /A:r/.
I left my glasses in the bathroom.
Note: The word are is often pronounced /A:/ or /A:r/. (See Unit
40.)
How to make the sound /л/ tongue down

• /√/ is a short sound. Look at the diagram. Listen


🎧 a n d then say the sound. Open your mouth
relaxed lips

A25a wide. Target sound: /√/


D Sound and spelling
• /√/ is usually spelled u, b u t
sometimes ou o r o. relaxed jaw
🎧 Listen and say these words.
A25b bus colour come cup front London luck Monday month
mother
much nothing number run study sun
uncle under
Note:The
Thenumber
words son
oneand sun have the same
F Note: is pronounced /w√n/.
• Listen and say these sentences.
pronunciation.
🎧 1 Good luck with your exam next month!
A25c 2 Take the number one bus.
3 I said ‘Come on Monday’, not ‘Come on
Sunday’.
4 My brother’s studying in London.
Some people, especially in the north of England, say /U/ instead of /√/. Listen to the same
🎧A25d sentences, this time with /U/.
Important
for listening
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Section A Sounds and spelling


Exercises
4.1 Listen and write the words in the correct column.
🎧 artist garden March part square talk warm watch
A26
words with /A:/ words with other vowel sounds
arti st square

Check with the Key. Then listen again and repeat.

4.2 Listen and write the words in the correct column.


🎧A27 business country fun home lots money mother push

words with /√/ words with other vowel sounds


country business

Check with the Key. Then listen again and repeat.

4.3 Complete the sentences with one /A:/ word and one /√/ word.

butter carpet dark hard husband love Prague


son
1 The butter’s too
2. I’d to buy !
that
3 Their ’s hair
4got
I first met my in .
.
Listen to check your answers. Check with the Key. Then listen again and repeat.
🎧A28
4.4 Listen and circle the word you hear. Check with the Key. If any of these are difficult for you, go to
Section
1 heart E3 Sound pairs
/ hat (for more practice.
sound pair
🎧 2 far / four 7) ( sound
A29 3 cat /cut pair 8) (
4 look / sound pair 9)
luck ( sound pair
5 luck / lock 5) ( sound
6 butter / pair 10) (
better sound pair 18)

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/‫ס‬/ and /ɔ:/


A How to make the sound /‫ס‬/ front of lips rounded
🎧 • /Å/ is a short sound. Look at the diagram. tongue
down
(a little)
Listen and say the sound. Round your lips a
A30a little. The front of your tongue is low and
towards the back of your mouth. Target lips forward
sound: /Å/
B Sound and spelling jaw down

🎧 • /Å/ is usually spelled o, a n d sometimes a. Listen a n d


bottle box cloc coffee copy cost
A30b chocolate got holiday
repeat. hospit k hot job lock long not off cross
possible al sorry lost
stop often doctor
shop
quality song wasn’t top dog
want wash wrong watch gone lot
Note:The
Theword
wordwas
cough is pronounced
F Note:
40.)
is sometimes pronounced with /Å/. (See Unit
what
/kÅf/.
🎧 • 1
NowHavelisten
youand
got asaylotthese
of sentences.3 How much did your holiday cost?
A30c shopping? 4 She said the coffee wasn’t very
2 John’s gone to the shops. good, but I thought it was.

Most Americans pronounce these words differently.


🎧A30d Listen.
1 Have you got a lot of 3 How much did your holiday cost?
Important shopping? 4 She said the coffee wasn’t very good, but I thought it
for listening 2 John’s gone to the shops. was.
front of lips very
C How to make the sound /ɔ:/ tongue rounded
• /O:/ is a long sound. Look at the diagram. Listen
down
🎧 a n d say the sound. Round your lips more
A31a
than for /Å/. Target sound: /O:/ lips foward
Sound and spelling jaw down
• /O:/ has different spellings. Listen and say
🎧 athese words.
all ball call fall ar war
A31b tall wallwate quarter m fort hors
al talk r or born corner y e
au walk shor sort
autumn t floor
aw saw daughte taugh oor door mor
augh caught r t ore e
ough bought thought before
• Now listen and say these our four
🎧 phrases.
1 quarter past 4 walking on water
A31c four 2 born in 5 the fourth door on the fourth
autumn 3 have floor
some more
When there is a letter r after /O:/, most Americans, Scots and Irish, and some other English
🎧A31d speakers pronounce this r. Listen.
Important 1 quarter past 3 have some more 5 the fourth door on the fourth
for listening four floor
2 born in autumn 4 walking on water

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Section A Sounds and spelling


Exercises
5.1 Write these words.
EXAMPLE box
/boks/
1 / 3 /wÅnt/ 5 /'sÅri
klÅk/ 4 /'wÅntId /
2/ / 6 /wÅt/
Listen to check your answers. Check with the Key. Then listen again and repeat.
gÅn/
🎧
A32 Listen and complete the dialogues with these /Å/
words.
5.2 box chocolates clock doctor gone got holiday on
🎧 stopped what what

A33 1 A: What time is


it?B: I don’t know. ’ .
2 The
A: have s ?
youB: A .
3 of
A: Where’s ?
theB: He’s .
Check with the Key. Then listen again and repeat.
What time is it?

5.3 Write the underlined verbs in the past tense.


EXAMPLE
We buy everything at the bought everything at the
supermarket.  We I about
supermarket.
you every
1 I think about you every day.  We day. home from
2We always walk home from  always
I the first school.
bus in the
school. 3 I catch the first bus  My morning. Englis
in the morning. 4 My daughter h.
Check with the
daughter Key. Then
teaches listen and repeat.
English.
🎧 7
A34 Write the names of the things in the picture.
(They all have /Å/ or /O:/.)
1
5.4 EXAMP bottle
5 3
LE
Check with the Key.
2

4
5.5 Listen and write the missing /Å/ and /O:/ 6
words.
full of of
🎧 A35
This is
wine o u rsome
and kitchen. O n theand
table there’s
pepper. shopping,
on a and
There’s a ’s asleep in the corner behind the the the
a big
.

5.6 Check withcircle


Listen and the Key.
theThen
wordlisten and speak
you hear. Checktogether
with thewith
Key. the recording.
If any of these are difficult for you, go to
Section E3 Sound pairs for more practice.
1 not / note ( sound pair 4 shot / short ( sound pair
🎧 2 luck / lock 11) ( sound 5 walk / work 13) ( sound
A36 3 coat / caught pair 10) ( pair 14)
sound pair 12)
English Pronunciation in Use (Elementary) 19

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