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 6
Minimal pairs = [ɒ] and [əʊ]
Elementary
not - note / want - won’t
Pre-Intermediate
got - goat / hop - hope / on - own
Intermediate
cost - coast / non - known / odd - owed / rod - road / rot - wrote / sop - soap / stock - stoke / tossed - toast / wok – woke.
Upper-Intermediate
block - bloke / bond - boned / bossed - boast / clock - cloak / cock - coke / cod - code / col - coal / cop - cope / god - goad / jock - joke / mod - mode / pop - pope / rob - robe / rod - rode / ROM - roam / shod - showed / smock - smoke / sock - soak / sod – sewed.
Advanced
blot - bloat / bod - bode / bonze - bones / chock - choke / cocks -coax / con - cone / crock - croak / doss - dose / dot - dote / foggy - fogey / glob - globe / hod - hoed / lob - lobe / lop - lope / mod - mowed / mop - mope / mot - mote / nod - node / odd - ode / rot -rote / slop - slope / sod - sowed / tock - toke / tod - toad / tot – tote.
ConanHuynh, Thanks again for helping !!! Very good recording !
Best regards,
Nina