Vowel Sounds

1.    /I/ as in bit, kit, pit, sit, lip, bill, mill, kill
2.    /i:/ as in sea, see, key, seat, beat, meet, meat
3.    /e/ as in pet, get, men, set, hen, ten, bend
4.    /æ/ as in pat, hat, cat, rat, man, apple, tap
5.    /ɑː/ as in car, arm, calm, father, last, heart
6.    /ʌ/ as in cut, but, hut, rub, must, rust, tub
7.    /ɒ/ as in pot, lot, got, top, hot, nod, blot
8.    /ɔː/ as in core, bought, sought, caught, court
9.    /ʊ/ as in put, look, shook, hook, cook, hood
10.  /uː/ as in boot, hoot, coup, tooth, loot
11.  /3:/ as in curse, rehearse, search, cur, burst
12.  /ə/ as in about, again, announce, attain, account

Double Vowel Sounds (Diphthongs)
1 /eɪ/ as in pain, page, bay, say, tray, play
2 /аɪ/ as in buy, bye, sky, my, tie, fly, guy
3 /ɔɪ/ as in boy, noise, soil, oil, boil, toil
4 /ɪə/ as in peer, beer, seer, tier, mere, cheer
5 /ɛə/ as in there, tear, bear, pear, clear, care
6 /ʊə/ as in moor, cure, pure, tour, sure, poor
7 /əʊ/ as in go, so, blow, home, comb
8 /aʊ/ as in cow, now, how, bow, loud, sound

Practice these minimal pairs.
1 / i:/ / I /
seat sit
heal hill
reach rich
green grin
meals mills

2 / ɪ / / e /
will well
tin ten
sit set
hid head
miss mess

3 / eɪ / / e /
main men
saint sent
fail fell
raid red
wait wet

4 / e / / æ /
men man
ten tan
send sand
guess gas
lend land

5 / ʊ / / uː /
pull pool
full fool
should shooed

6 / аɪ / / ɔɪ /
buy boy
tie toy
tile toil
file foil
bile boil

7 / əʊ/o: / / ɒ /
coat cot
note not
road rod
soaks socks
won’t want
hope hop
rob robe