Pronunciation Questions

QUESTIONS ON PHONETICS

Here you have some examples of the possible PAU questions on pronunciation:

• Give a word which is spelt differently but which has exactly the same pronunciation as each of the following words taken from the text:
  • One:won
  • hour:our
  • See:sea
  • here:hear
• Find a word in the text which is pronounced with the same vowel as each of the following words (eg. “mine: sight”):
  • Bed: held, dead
  • made:place
  • Sheep:seat,need
  • no:go, stone
• Find four words in the text in which the letter “a” has different pronunciations: (eg. with “o”: do, more, not, to) 
  • many/ fact/ wall/ coronations
• Find one word in the text in which each of the following letters is silent:
  • “t”:often
  • “u”:guided, Conqueror
  • “g”:sights, although
  • “e”:something, are, take
• Classify the following words into four groups, so that the words in each group rhyme:
  • few/ pair/ tower/ go/ hour/ where/ know/ true/ share/ blow/ our/ shoe
• Find the word that does not rhyme in the following groups:
  • More - far - war - law
  • Take - break - lake - weak
  • Found - pound - owned - round
  • One - done - gone - sun
• Underline the stressed syllables:
  • industrial/ totally/ fantastic/ repeat/ noisily