Every good American English pronunciation lesson deserves a quiz.
Each quiz is part of an American English Pronunciation lesson.
Most are audio quizzes.
Audio Quizzes
- 1. Irregular verbs: be come do drive fall feel get go have see
- 2. Irregular verbs: drink eat give make read ride run sleep speak write
- 3. Irregular verbs: begin choose find hear know leave say take teach wear
- 4. Irregular verbs: break build buy grow hold keep let mean send set
- 5. Irregular verbs: bring lose meet pay put show sit stand tell think
- 6. Irregular Verbs: quiz (50 verbs)
- 7. Irregular Verbs: past tense quiz (50 verbs)
- 8. Irregular Verbs: past tense test (50 verbs)
- CH = /k/ ache
- CH = /tʃ-k-ʃ-h-silent/
- Compare: a desert – a dessert – to desert
- Compare: borrow – lend
- Compare: break – breakfast
- Compare: breath – breathe
- Compare: choose – chooses – choosing – chose – chosen – choice
- Compare: clothes – clothing – cloth
- Compare: core – corps – corpse
- Compare: fall – feel – fill
- Compare: interested in – interesting
- Compare: interested in – interesting: difficult quiz
- Compare: interested in – interesting: easy quiz
- Compare: quit – quite – quiet
- Compare: recipe – receipt – prescription
- Compare: say – says – said
- Compare: tell – say
- Compare: woman – women
- conditional 2 – contractions
- conditional 2 – giving advice
- Consonant Sound Pair /p, b/
- Consonant Sounds & Transcription
- Contraction: will => ‘ll
- Contractions: to be = ‘m, ‘re, ‘s
- GH Words
- GH Words: /f, g, p/
- GH Words: cough, trough, ought to, wrought
- GH Words: dough, doughnut
- GH Words: homophones
- GH Words: rough, tough, enough, slough
- GH Words: secret 7 past tense verbs
- How do you know if a sound is voiceless or voiced?
- I wish…, + could would
- I wish…,were, other verbs
- IF: conditional 1
- IF: mixed conditionals 2 & 3
- Linking: /t/ + /y/ = /t͡ʃ/
- Linking: /t/ + /y/ = /t͡ʃ/
- Linking: a, an + vowel sound
- Linking: animal idioms
- Linking: consonant sound + of
- Linking: consonant sound + or
- Linking: consonant sound + same consonant sound
- Linking: consonant sound + vowel sound
- Linking: d + y = /d͡ʒ/
- Linking: present / past tense + vowel sound
- Linking: secret /y, w/ + vowel sound
- Linking: time idioms
- Linking: word final -ed /dId/ + vowel sound
- Linking: word final -ed + vowel sound
- Linking: word final /s, z, Iz/ + vowel sound
- Phrasal Verbs: sleep
- Phrasal Verbs: taking a trip
- Phrasal Verbs: taking a test
- Phrases of Time: since for
- Prepositions of Place: in on at
- Prepositions of Time: at … in
- R: 1-syllable words
- R: boring bored
- R: consonant clusters
- R: iron
- R: unstressed r = /ɚ/ (part 1)
- R: unstressed r = /ɚ/ (part 2)
- R: word world
- reduction: a lot of … lots of
- Reduction: can /kən/ or /kæn/
- Reduction: coulda … woulda … shoulda
- Reduction: gonna
- Reduction: greetings & responses
- Reduction: have to … has to … had to
- Reduction: wanna
- Reduction: whaddaya
- Reduction: disappearing vowel
- Rip Van Winkle
- Sentence Stress
- Silent B: plumber
- Silent Consonant: B
- Silent Consonant: P
- Silent Consonant: S
- Silent Consonant: T
- Silent Consonant: W
- Silent Consonant: D
- Silent Consonant: G
- Silent Consonant: H
- Silent Consonant: K
- Silent Consonant: L
- Silent Consonant: M & N
- Silent GH
- Silent K: asked /æst/
- Silent o: sophomore
- Silent R: comfortable
- Silent th: month – months
- Silent W: question answer
- Silent W: Wednesday
- Stress Pattern: – ain words
- Stress Pattern: 2-syllable nouns
- Stress Pattern: 2-syllable verbs
- Stress Pattern: homographs
- T: 5 ways we say numbers
- T: flap t = /d/
- T: numbers 13-90 … /t/ or /d/
- T: real t = /tʰ/
- T: stop /t|/ + /ṇ/
- T: stop t = /t|/
- T: written t => /ʃ/
- T: written t => /t͡ʃ/
- TH: /θ, ð/ at the beginning of a word
- TH: /θ, ð/ at the end of a word
- TH: /θ, ð/ clothes … clothing … cloth
- TH: /θ, ð/ in the middle of a word
- TH: /θ/…4th…5th…6th…7th…8th…9th…10th
- TH: mouth or mouse
- to be used to (routine, habit)
- to get used to (process of change)
- use (noun or verb)
- used to (past tense)
- Vocabulary: college or university
- Vocabulary: going + prepositions
- vocabulary: rooms in a house
- Vowel Sound /a/
- Vowel Sound /æ/
- Vowel Sound /I, iy/
- Vowel Sound /iy/
- Vowel Sound /ow/
- Vowel Sound /ɔ/
- Vowel Sound /ʊ/
- Vowel Sound /ʊ/: book
- Vowel Sound /ʌ/
- Vowel Sound /ʌ/: blood
- Vowel Sounds /æ, a/
- Vowel Sounds /æ, ʌ, a/
- Vowel Sounds /ʌ, a/
- Vowel Sounds & Transcription
- wonder word: ancient
- wonder word: Catholic
- wonder word: chocolate
- wonder word: colonel
- wonder word: etc.
- wonder word: pronunciation
- wonder word: purple
- wonder word: vegetable
- wonder words: school vocabulary
- word final -s: “in the morning”
- word final -s: pattern /s, z, Iz/
- Written o = silent o
- Written oo = /uw/
- Written oo = /uw/ or /ʊ/
- Written oo = /ʊ/
- word final -ed (8 quizzes)
