American English or British English accents welcome ;-)
These words are to be pronounced for ESL students.
Thanks in advance !
IMPROVE YOUR PRONUNCIATION – VOWEL SOUNDS Part 2
Minimal pairs = [ e ] vs [ I ]
Elementary
dead - did / desk - disk.
Pre-Intermediate
belt - built / fell - fill / head - hid / left - lift / mess - miss.
Intermediate
bed - bid / beg - big / bell - bill / bet - bit / check - chick / gem - gym / hell - hill / hem - him / let - lit / pet - pit.
Upper-Intermediate
bend - binned / bent - bint / cheque - chick / deck - dick / fen - fin / get - git / jest - gist / leapt - lipped / led - lid / lest - list / kecks - kicks / kept - kipped / meddle - middle / messed - mist / peg - pig / set - sit.
Advanced
bless - bliss / Celt - kilt / clef - cliff / clench - clinch / crept - crypt / dell - dill / den - din / dent - dint / fetter - fitter / fez - fizz / fleck - flick / fretter - fritter / gelding - gilding / heck - hick / hem - hymn / hep - hip / hex - hicks / ken - kin / ketch - kitsch / Med - mid / phlegm - flim / quell - quill.
Hi Walsh,
Thank you very much for helping :-)
Unfortunately, there's no sound... Impossible to hear anything...
Would you mind to record it again ? Thanks a million in advance :-)
Take care,
Nina