American English or British English accent.
This list is for ESL students to be pronounced.
Thanks in advance :-)
IMPROVE YOUR PRONUNCIATION – VOWEL SOUNDS Part 3
Minimal pairs = [ e ] vs [ ei ]
Elementary
wet - wait
Pre-Intermediate
bed - bade / bread - braid / fell - fail / get – gate / L - ale / let - late / M -aim / pen - pain / rest - raced / S - ace / sell - sale / tech - take / test - taste / well - whale / west – waist.
Intermediate
best - based / chess - chase / debt - date / edge - age / etch - H / gel - jail / led - laid / lens - lanes / men - main / met - mate / pent - paint / pled - played / set - sate / sex - sakes / special - spatial / tell - tale / trend - trained / when - wane / wren - rain / X – aches.
Upper-Intermediate
beck - bake / bell - bail / bet - bait / bled - blade / breast - braced / fed - fade / fret - freight / hell - hail / red - raid / sent - saint / shed - shade / shell - shale / sped - spade / tent - taint / tread - trade / wed - wade / wedge - wage / wreck – rake.
Advanced
betted - bated / dell - dale / den - deign / fen - feign / fend - feigned / fez - phase / fleck - flake / fled - flayed / heck - hake / hex - hakes / ken - cane / less - lace / lest - laced / mess - mace / pest - paste / phlegm - flame / rend - rained / stead - stayed / vend - veined / wend – waned.