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 4
Minimal pairs = [æ] and [ʌ]
Elementary
bat - but / batter - butter / cap - cup /cat - cut / match - much.
Pre-Intermediate
bad - bud / began - begun / drank - drunk / fan - fun / hat - hut / ran - run / sang - sung / swam - swum.
Intermediate
ankle - uncle / back - buck / badge - budge / bag - bug / ban - bun / bank - bunk / banker - bunker / brash - brush / cam - come / crash - crush / dabble - double / dad - dud / ham - hum / hang - hung / mad - mud / massed - must / pan - pun / rang - rung / rash - rush / sack - suck / sax - sucks / stand - stunned / track - truck.
Upper-Intermediate
bang - bung / cab - cub / cram - crumb / dam - dumb / damp - dump / dram - drum / fanned - fund / flash - flush / gnat - nut / hag - hug / paddle - puddle / pack - puck / pat - putt / rag - rug / sand - sunned / sank - sunk / scam - scum / slam - slum / slang - slung / stack - stuck / stank - stunk / tang - tongue / tag - tug / tramps - trumps / wan - won.
Advanced
blabber - blubber / champ - chump / dab - dub / dank - dunk / flank - flunk / flax - flux / gash - gush / glam - glum / grab - grub / hanker - hunker / hash - hush / hatch - hutch / jag - jug / lag - lug / mat - mutt / pap - pup / patter - putter / rabble - rubble / ram - rum / sally - sully / sap - sup / sapper - supper / scram - scrum / shacks - shucks / slag - slug / slash - slush / slat - slut / stab - stub / tab - tub / tack - tuck /tat - tut / thrash – thrush.