Chapter 3: Diphthongs



1. What are diphthongs?

Diphthongs are sounds which consists of a movement or glide from one vowel to another. There are two types of diphthongs which are centring and closing diphthongs.


2. How they are produced?

The centring diphthongs glide toward the schwa vowel. However, the closing diphthongs have the characteristic that they all end with the glide towards a closer vowel.


3. What are they?

Centring diphthongs = [Iə], [eə], [ʊə]

Closing diphthongs = [eI], [aI], [ɔI], [əʊ], [aʊ]


4. What are examples of words with diphthongs?

Centring diphthongs
[I] = ‘fear’, ‘gear’, ‘dear’

[eə] =’ere’, ‘air’

[ʊə] =’poor’, ‘lure’


Closing diphthongs

[eI] = ‘said’, ‘reign’, ‘reike’

[aI] = ‘buy’, ‘tie’, ‘lie’

[ɔI] = ‘boy’, ‘toy’, ‘foil’

[əʊ] = ‘comb’, ‘coma’, ‘cold’

[aʊ] = ‘bow’, ‘cow’, ‘allow’

Chapter 2: Vowels

vowel's chart

1. What are vowels in term of production?

Vowels are sounds in which there is no obstruction to the flow of air as it passes from the larynx to the lips.


2. What are short vowel sounds?

[I], [e], [æ], [˄], [ɒ], [ʊ]

3. What are examples of words with short vowel sounds?

[I] = ‘bin’, ‘tin’, ‘ring’


[e] = ‘bet’, ‘pet’, ‘pen’


[æ] = ‘bag’, ‘rag’, ‘tag’


[˄] = ‘part’, ‘dart’, ‘fart’


[ɒ] = ‘lost’, ‘boss’, horse’


[ʊ] = ‘glue’, clue’, ‘blue’

TONGUE TWISTER

This is our very first tongue twister. Later on, we will try to produce more and more tricky sentences of tongue twister.

Well, you can try yourself to pronounce tongue twister below..

Fafa found Fifi falls from fifth floor


good luck....! \(",)/