​International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)

Lesson 1: Vowel /i:/ & /i/

How to make the sound /i:/ ?

• Step 1: Make your mouth wide, like a smile

• Step 2: Touch your tongue up to the sides of your teeth

Practice with the sound /i:/ ?

• see

• agree

• eat

• seat

• team

1. /i:/ is usually spelled "ee" or "ea"

Practice with the sound /i:/ ?

• ie

• e

• ey

• i

• eo

2. Other words with /i:/

​field, piece

these, meter, secret, evening, equal, Peter, museum, European, Chinese, Japanese, complete

key

ski, kilo, litre, pizza, police, machine, magazine

people

Pracetice with some sentences

• Can you see the sea?

• A piece of pizza, please?

• Peter's in the team

• A kilo of peaches and a litre cream.

How to make the sound /i/ ?

• Step 1: Make your mouth is a bit less wide than for /i:/

• Step 2: Touch your tongue a bit further back in your mouth than for /i:/

Practice with the sound /i/ ?

• if

• listen

• miss

• dinner

• swim

1. /i/ is usually spelled "i"

Practice with the sound /i/ ?

• Busy

• business

• building

• system

2. Other words with /i/

• fifty-six

• dinner in the kitchen

• a cinema ticket

• a picture of a building

• big business