Pronunciation of Australian English 3
Sounds of Consonants Part 1 (the number in blue below is on the chart which I sent to you)
Consonants are the third basic types of sounds in English. When consonant sounds are made, air coming from your mouth is partly or fully restricted (blocked).
“P” sounds IPA SYMBOL p (21)
“P” sounds 1. Beginnings – pay, pencil, point, please, practice
Audio Player“P” sounds 2. Endings – stop, plop, cop, cup, cap, dropped, mopped
Audio Player“P” sounds 3. I’ll only pay you if you do plenty of practice.
Audio Player“P” sounds 4. The poor preacher suddenly stopped speaking when he spied the trapped spider.
Audio Player“B” sounds IPA SYMBOL b (22)
“B” Sounds 1. Beginnings bigger, berry, Barry, Betty, bring, baby
Audio Player“B” Sounds 2. Endings Bob, grab, stab, lob, glib, mob
Audio Player“B” Sounds 3. Grab the pram or you’ll lose the baby.
Audio Player“B” Sounds 4. The bad boy had a glib attitude to life.
Audio Player“T” sounds IPA SYMBOL t (23)
“T” sounds 1. Beginnings – table, task, tusk, trick, treat, travel, trouble, tunnel, topple
Audio Player“T” sounds 2. Take the table on the left since it is empty.
Audio Player“T” sounds 3. The troublesome terrorists treated the passengers terribly when they trapped the train in the tunnel.
Audio Player“T” sounds 4. Endings – bat, feet, neat, meet, treat, compete, finished, plucked
Audio Player“D” sounds IPA SYMBOL d (24)
“D” sounds 1. dog, danger, deadly, dawn, dusk, drink, drive
Audio Player“D” sounds 2. It’s very dangerous to drink alcohol and drive, especially at dusk.
Audio Player“D” sounds 3. The dog dug down deeply into the ground to get the delicious bone.
Audio Player“D” sounds 4. send, spend, completed, ended, fitted, grabbed
Audio Player“K” Sounds IPA SYMBOL k (27)
K sounds 1. Beginnings – call, cut, king, cap, careful, cold, cake, catch
Audio PlayerK sounds 2. Endings – book, back, cake, puck, Mick, muck, stick, stuck, lick, luck, prick
Audio PlayerK sounds 3. Cathy keeps cute cats carefully in her colourful condominium.
Audio PlayerK sounds 4. A piano makes plinkety plink sounds.
Audio Player“G” sounds IPA SYMBOL g (28)
“G” sounds 1. Beginnings – go, got, give, gave, gas, gap, gun, gully, government
Audio Player“G” sounds 2. Endings – big, bag, bog, beg, bug, hug
Audio Player“G” sounds 3. Please go and give this gorgeous gift to the most gregarious girl.
Audio Player“G” sounds 4. The big dog begged Biggles to hug his leg.
Audio Player“Sss” sounds IPA SYMBOL s (33)
“Sss” sounds 1. Beginnings – summer, salmon, snow, sport, seven, seasons, school, sort, Saturn, September
Audio Player“Sss” sounds 2. Middle – baseball, racing, gasoline, pencil, sexy, fussy, recipe
Audio Player“Sss” sounds 3. Endings – bus, fuss, place, loss, miss, curse, reverse
Audio Player“Sss” sounds 4. Silly Sally seemed upset to see the small snake.
Audio Player“M” sounds IPA SYMBOL m (37)
“M” sounds 1. Beginnings – mad, moon, make, morning, mountain, much, music, March
Audio Player“M” sounds 2. Middles – family, camera, lemon, tomato, woman, human
Audio Player“M” sounds 3. Endings – Sam, gem, cream, game, come, home, comb, room
Audio Player“M” sounds 4. Mary is mad at the mirth of her merry friends.
Audio Player“Nnnn” sounds IPA SYMBOL n (38)
“N” sounds 1. Beginnings – never, noon, name, nice, night, not, now, knock, number, November
Audio Player“N” sounds 2. Middles – panic, peanut, canoe, dinosaur, sunny, funny, country
Audio Player“N” sounds 3. Endings – brain, bun, fun, coin, clean, clown, green, man, yen
Audio Player“N” sounds 4. Hey! Ken, can you bring me the milk please?
Audio Player“H” sounds IPA SYMBOL h (40)
“H” sounds 1. Beginnings – hack, hope, hut, happen, help, haughty, hopping, whole, whose, hurt, head
Audio Player“H” sounds 2. Middle – behave; beehive; cohort, pothole; playhouse; redhead; fishhook
Audio Player“H” sounds 3. Harry Hobson hit the handle of the door with a heavy hammer.
Audio Player“H” sounds 4. He had a happy smile on his birthday.
Audio Player“W” sounds IPA SYMBOL w (43)
“W” sounds 1. Beginnings – wash, what, wait, walk, when, we, weather, windy, wave, woke, work
Audio Player“W” sounds 2. Middles – sour, tower, towel, lower, doer,
Audio Player“W” sounds 3. Endings – cow, sow, now, bow, sew, flow
Audio Player“W” sounds 4. William wants waffles for breakfast on Wednesday.
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